JohnW
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My ghast is totally flabbered!!!!
Just who "deserves" a payout of £949K when made redundant???
It makes one wonder what sort of salary must they have been earning to start with! [Might it have been G.Dyke, I wonder? Was his exit before 2005? Perhaps John Tusa?]
But if they were on an 'enormous' salary, as their redundancy figure implies, I guess their 7.5% contribution to the Pension fund must surely have been enough to pay for one or two of us each month! Yet if they weren't long in the job, wouldn't their BBC Pension be quite heavily discounted? Besides, their Redundancy package surely wouldn't have been financed from the Pension fund, would it?
No matter: at the end of the day I fear that it's the reputation of our beloved 'Auntie' that will be dragged down to "Banker" level when this sort of detail is aired to the public!
To me, the reputation of the BBC is not based on whether the organisation is 'well managed': it is based on the quality of the output - and that's been driven by the skills of the staff, generally 'low-level workers' who persevere to overcome the odds, and make good programmes. There are exceptions of course - Bill Cotton and the like - but since the likes of Birt [spit!] the corporation has rather lost its true Reithian direction. We've already had the "Feel the width" debate - which has given us BBCs Three and Four (along with CBeebies and other assorted pap) - surely it's time to get back to "Feel the Quality" aspect now that we have a fairly decent delivery medium (digital artifacts excepted, of course!).
And, as a slight aside, I personally think they should stop 'apologising' for "BBC One HD" - by reversing the Station IDs where the HD gets removed from the BBC One logo: surely they should make the HD appear - to point out that the service is changing, and improved when people see it that way.
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