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We Post An Article From Our Back Catalogue To Prove A Point

November 4, 2008

We Post An Article From Our Back Catalogue To Prove A Point We present an article that had been initially posted on June 5. You can see that we started our campaign against the disgraceful waste of public money on the BBC much earlier than others, who now pretend that they have always critisised corrupt practices at the corporation.

The BBC Is Overpaying Its So-Called ‘Stars’. It’s A Scandal

There is no way, no way that any of the so-called ‘stars’ on the BBC are worth all that money that they are being paid at the moment. And it’s a scandal that the BBC Trust has actually defended its disgraceful policy of paying mediocrities like Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton millions of pounds of licence payers’ money for the abysmal way they host their second-rate chat shows.

I am sorry, but Ross can’t even pronounce half of the alphabet, so how does that make him worth all those millions? Plus, he isn’t exactly bristling with wisdom or humour and his pathetic attempts to be controversial by swearing once in a while or uttering indecencies just prove once again that he simply doesn’t have it. Talent, that is. And Graham Norton with his tiresome camp humour is not exactly a world class act, is he? Both of these clowns should be offered a plain choice – take a cut or take a hike. They are not worth even a thousandth of what they are getting at the BBC.

And the list of the overpaid ‘stars’ at the BBC does not end there. Ann Robinson, that deeply unpleasant woman with the manners of a KGB interrogator, is paid £3 million a year. What is it that she does on her stupid quiz show that is worth that much money? And what about David Williams and Matt Lucas? Why are they worth £6 million, may I ask? Does anyone really think that their Little Britain is so good that they must be kept at the BBC at any price? I find Little Britain amateurish and repetitive. The same old sketches are thrown at viewers, time and time again. And there is no controversy in them; none at all. In fact, Little Britain is politically correct and mostly unfunny. We had enough of men dressing up as women in Monty Python Flying Circus. More than enough. But at least the Monty Python team was not paid millions like Williams and Lucas are so they could be forgiven for taking their cross-dressing silliness too far.

Sir Terry Wogan, who gets £800,000 a year for presenting his Radio 2 show, could probably easily settle for two or three hundred grand. And there is no way his commenting of the Eurovision song contest is worth £200,000. It may be witty and occasionally funny, but it’s not that he says very much during the programme to get so much money for it. Chris Evans’s is paid £540,000 for hosting his drivetime show on Radio 2. Who on earth wants to hear Evans? He should be working for free to compensate for all that money that he had made out of broadcasting while actually having no talent at all. I still can’t understand how on earth he made it into the big time. The guy is hopeless. 

The interesting thing is that the BBC Trust found that the only two presenters, who probably earn too much money, were Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman and Radio 1 breakfast show host, Chris Moyles. Actually, Paxman is probably one of the few people on the BBC who deserves to be paid generously because he at least still makes news programmes worth watching. Moyles I don’t care about. I think that anyone who listens to Radio 1 breakfast show should have his or hers head examined, so even if they cut Moyles’s pay, nothing much will change anyway. If he goes, there’ll be many others to replace him. No big deal, you know, to play music, insert in bad jokes and read exerts from tabloids. No big deal at all.

And once we’re on that subject let me tell you something about broadcasting generally. There is absolutely no need to pay astronomical amounts of money to any of the presenters because they can be easily replaced at any moment. Yes, you can get anyone and in a week or two they would be able to host a show and attract exactly the same audiences. There is nothing complicated about it. Nothing at all. Trust me, I know. But if the commercial stations are still prepared to pay their so-called stars huge salaries, it is in the end their own decision because we, the TV viewers, don’t bankroll them. They get their money from advertisers and what they pay to anyone is no concern of ours. But when the BBC, a public broadcaster, throws away millions of licence payers’ money then the whole situation changes dramatically. Then we are talking about misuse of public funds. And no one should be allowed to waste public money and get away with it.

And one more thing about the BBC which I can’t understand: how come the people who run it economise on the news and waste all that money on entertainment shows and dramas that are, quite frankly, not very good. When did you last see a really good programme on the BBC? Common, be honest about it.

There are, of course, die-hard viewers who make up all those ‘high ratings’ that are used by the BBC to explain why it pays vast amounts of money to its ‘stars’. These people will watch anything; anything at all. They would weep at a hospital drama where some actors pretend to be ill or hurt and others pretend to be doctors and nurses and treat them. Or they would watch Eastenders and feel the pain of the main characters and sympathise with them and even write letters to them. Or they’d be losing sleep over the results of Strictly Come Dancing and other stupid talent shows and think that Doctor Who is one of the best sci-fi blockbusters of all time. These people are hopeless and they would be ready to watch anything, even a tank with fish in it, for hours. But you, the people who still have some sense left in you: why do you tolerate badly made programmes on the BBC?

It is probably time to start seriously thinking of privatising the BBC. Then we’ll see whether they’ll be still paying their ‘stars’ so much money.

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