BBC and other fat cats Pay - more than the PM!

[Psamathe]

Re: BBC Pay - more than the PM: If you look at the calibre of PMs we had in recent years I think the person at my local supermarket checkout deserves more pay than any of our recent PMs. Much as I dislike Amazon, the pickers at Amazon's warehouse(s) make fewer mistakes than the PMs we had in recent years. etc., etc.

Ian

[mercalia]

Re: BBC Pay - more than the PM: If you look at the calibre of PMs we had in recent years I think the person at my local supermarket checkout deserves more pay than any of our recent PMs. Much as I dislike Amazon, the pickers at Amazon's warehouse(s) make fewer mistakes than the PMs we had in recent years. etc., etc.

Ian

the issue though is are the news readers better in quality than the PM? dont thnk so , just greedy

[kwackers]

the issue though is are the news readers better in quality than the PM? dont thnk so , just greedy

I beg to differ, if the PM was a newsreader by the end of the news we still wouldn't know what had happened.

[thirdcrank]

A couple of issues here re Ms Ackroyd and Look North the BBC regional news from Leeds.

This tax arrangement - forming a company which receives your pay and then taking your pay as dividends which are subject to much less tax than PAYE - used to be quite a common tax wheeze among our betters, including the top dogs at the BBC. It came to something of a head with Tony's crony John Birt who got quite a lot of adverse publicity over this. The Inland Revenue only took any real notice when ordinary workers got on the bandwagon. At one point, when manufacturing industry was moving everybody onto short-term contracts, there were several firms providing this service for shop floor workers and the taxman moved to put a stop to it.

Ms Ackroyd used to be on the Yorkshire TV regional news programme Calendar but was poached with what was reported at the time to be megabucks, even compared with others doing a similar job within the BBC.

The Leeds version of Look North really is a job creation scheme eg they persist with two presenters reading alternate sentences from the autocue. One thing that really irritates me is that somebody with editorial influence decided to go for the "Eh, lad; ah, lad; oh, lad, Ilkla Moor Bar t'at" approach, rather than have a decent news output.

Ms Ackroyd's departure from the BBC was sudden and shrouded in mystery; rumour had it that there was more involved, which may be why she has now referred to innuendo.

[Psamathe]

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The Leeds version of Look North really is a job creation scheme eg they persist with two presenters reading alternate sentences from the autocue. ......

I suspect a lot of the BBC local 18:30-19:00 magazine programs are the same. The "Look East"s" I've seen are just as daft with the two presenters, the **Stop Press** "cat rescued from a tree in Dereham" , etc. Just a way to fill those annoying broadcast minutes the BBC have to do to get their mega salaries. Complete waste of time, money and resources.

Of course if people enjoy it then they can pay for it and not need me to subsidise their (IMHO) drivel.

Ian

[mercalia]

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The Leeds version of Look North really is a job creation scheme eg they persist with two presenters reading alternate sentences from the autocue. ......

I suspect a lot of the BBC local 18:30-19:00 magazine programs are the same. The "Look East"s" I've seen are just as daft with the two presenters, the **Stop Press** "cat rescued from a tree in Dereham" , etc. Just a way to fill those annoying broadcast minutes the BBC have to do to get their mega salaries. Complete waste of time, money and resources.

Of course if people enjoy it then they can pay for it and not need me to subsidise their (IMHO) drivel.

Ian

well thats news to me never heard of that practice.I am surprised some one hasnt complained?

[thirdcrank]

... I suspect a lot of the BBC local 18:30-19:00 magazine programs are the same. ...

I haven't much knowledge of other BBC regions. For technical reasons, we get the North East version on one of our tellies but it's some time since I watched it, but IIRC it was only one presenter and none of the equivalent Geordie theme which might be the equivalent of all the childish Tyke garbage. I've seen the East Yorkshire version (from Hull?) which is imposed on North Norfolk, also for technical reasons, with a solo presenter, Peter Levy, with interruptions from top meterologist, wannabe comedian, Paul "The Weatherman" Hudson. I thought the BBC's Home Counties regional news had a solo presenter.

[Bonefishblues]

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The Leeds version of Look North really is a job creation scheme eg they persist with two presenters reading alternate sentences from the autocue. ......

I suspect a lot of the BBC local 18:30-19:00 magazine programs are the same. The "Look East"s" I've seen are just as daft with the two presenters, the **Stop Press** "cat rescued from a tree in Dereham" , etc. Just a way to fill those annoying broadcast minutes the BBC have to do to get their mega salaries. Complete waste of time, money and resources.

Of course if people enjoy it then they can pay for it and not need me to subsidise their (IMHO) drivel.

Ian

well thats news to me never heard of that practice.I am surprised some one hasnt complained?

I see what you did there

[reohn2]

I suspect a lot of the BBC local 18:30-19:00 magazine programs are the same. The "Look East"s" I've seen are just as daft with the two presenters, the **Stop Press** "cat rescued from a tree in Dereham" , etc. Just a way to fill those annoying broadcast minutes the BBC have to do to get their mega salaries. Complete waste of time, money and resources.

Of course if people enjoy it then they can pay for it and not need me to subsidise their (IMHO) drivel.

Ian

well thats news to me never heard of that practice.I am surprised some one hasnt complained?

I see what you did there

Fake news?

[mercalia]

well thats news to me never heard of that practice.I am surprised some one hasnt complained?

I see what you did there

Fake news?

I dont get it

[KTHSullivan]

Just as an aside the "average" principal in a tertiary education college earns more than the secretary of state for education

[reohn2]

I see what you did there

Fake news?

I dont get it

Keep thinking and you'll see what you did there

[reohn2]

Just as an aside the "average" principle in a tertiary education college earns more than the secretary of state for education

It could be because education has become a business.

[KTHSullivan]

Very much a business, where bums on seats = income. As a consequence I have seen a "learner" on higher national course calculate the cross sectional area of a 6mm brass rod to be the size of Belgium. I fear that the continued commercialisation of education as a whole, where "points mean prizes" is slowly but inexorably destroying the credibility of the majority of qualifications in the UK. Lets face it, senior staff bonuses and or college/school income dependent upon results; with the same people in charge of generating said results! Hmmm, let me think about that one!!

[reohn2]

Very much a business, where bums on seats = income. As a consequence I have seen a "learner" on higher national course calculate the cross sectional area of a 6mm brass rod to be the size of Belgium.

Neither surprises me