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BBC Cuts Costs: It’s Taking The Piss, But Not As We Know It

Anton Goryunov writes: The BBC has done what it does best yesterday by taking the piss, at the expense of the long suffering licence payers. As part of its costs cutting exercise the Corporation announced plans to scrap two irrelevant digital radio stations and a couple of websites that no one has ever heard of. BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson, said with a perfectly straight face, that the publicly funded broadcaster was intending to concentrate on making ‘better programmes’. Mr Thompson also let be known that the BBC was planning to continue providing ‘unbiased news’ and make it even better. Imagine for a moment a meeting between the top brass at the BBC where the groundbreaking decision on cutting costs was taken. Director General: People, we’re in serious trouble. We have... 

A Passionate Defence Of The BBC. And Of Its Hard Working Executives

  Adam Lovejoy writes: I would like to voice my defence of the BBC and the wonderful and talented people who run it, including its Director General, Mark Thompson, and all of his deputies and senior executives. A vicious campaign has been unleashed against these fine people by some sections of the media, accusing them of receiving huge salaries, as if they do not deliver for the money they are getting. So what if the top 37 BBC executives earn more than the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. What has Mr Brown done for the country, compared to the tireless work that these people at the BBC carry out? Just let me give you some examples of what the hard working executives at the BBC, earn so that you will understand better why I am so angry with hacks who are having a go at them for supposedly... 

Of BBC Left-Wing Bias. And Genital Warts

The BBC’s top management has been saying, for the last 13 years especially, while it was sucking up to Labour, that the Corporation was always impartial in its coverage of the news and in its programming as a whole. I’ve always wondered how on earth the BBC top brass have been managing to keep a straight gace while talking bullshit. The BBC has always been left-wing, because it has always been funded by the public, so it knew it could get away with anything. And, as a result, the lefties simply took over the Corporation and started peddling their filth. Imagine, every bloody news bulletin and 99 per cent of all programmes on the BBC are left-wing biased. That is some great achievement for a broadcaster, operating in a conservative minded country like Britain, and feeding off the... 

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