At the BBC, crime pays. Quite handsomely, too.
Some of the BBC’s most senior executives have been awarded pay rises of more than £100,000 in a year when the corporation has been dogged by fakery scandals and job cuts.
Jana Bennett, the Director of Vision, who was heavily criticised for her role in the “Crowngate affair” where footage of a documentary about the Queen was wrongly edited for a trailer of the programme, saw her salary rise from £433,000 to £536,000 last year, an increase of 24 per cent.
Jenny Abramsky, the outgoing head of Audio and Music, was paid £419,000 last year, a 27 per cent rise from £329,000 the previous year, according to the BBC annual report published today.
The pay increases follow a year of scandal in which the BBC was found guilty of deceiving viewers on a number of radio and television programmes ranging from Children in Need and Blue Peter to Sport Relief.
Betraying the west and enabling our enemies deserves handsome renumeration it seems.
Bet Dan Rather’s smacking his forehead right now and wondering if the BBC’s hiring.
This should be good for priceless TV moments during the House of Commons question period.
Well, of course, pay raises at the BBC are entirely appropriate. You wouldn’t want the great unwashed to have a choice, would you? That would never do. They might start to think the wrong things, and then where would we be?
And Jenny Abramksi trousers £190,000 per annum pension. That’s more than the Prime Minister earns.
The Mandatory TV license fee is what pays their salary.
So at £139 a pop, the average £100,000 raise only takes the money of less than 800 folks.
This is hardly worth mentioning.
SEE http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/
I Love this line from their site.
“The BBC is paid for directly through each household TV licence. This allows it to run a wide range of popular public services for everyone, free of adverts and independent of advertisers, shareholders or political interests.”
Of course, to get your salary _tripled_, you have to be married to Obama.
One of the interesting things about public financing of artistic and broadcast events is that the developers get to profit. Handsomely. When you hire a consultant you get to own the copyright in almost every case. If the public pays for a show, a production, a painting… we should own the copyright, also. It can be shared. We’d soon see how many people produce art for art’s sake or kiss up to politicians to fund their future.
No wonder, they’ve been watching their own TV programming. Hustle, anyone?
The BBC’s still broadcasting? Who knew?