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Post by theatremiss on Mar 13, 2023 15:47:27 GMT
All top BBC management are appointed by the government. Nothing is ever said when it is the Left appointing their people. No one said a thing when Blair appointed Labour supporter Gavyn Davies as chairman, his wife Sue Nye even worked for Gordon Brown! It is just typical that people assume it is only the Tories that put their people in certain key roles. They have short memories. Actually Gavyn Davies appointment was heavily criticised so what you've said isn't true at all. And of course Davies time as Chairman saw relations between the BBC and the then Labour government hit an all time low, unlike right now when they are marching in step. As always the Conservatives go further and the Sharp appointment is particularly alarming given his, at the time, undisclosed role in arranging a loan for Boris Johnson. Well that criticism passed me by then. It does however seem like the current government has no influence over the BBC as they’ve had no influence in Lineker returning or not. Hopefully this whole debacle can fast forward towards private funding of the BBC and unlike other subscription channels we aren’t in effect bullied into paying the £13pm fee to watch live TV. Personally I wouldn’t pay but my husband likes to watch live sport on Sky and a such we need a licence. Wrong on all levels. I’d rather pay and extra £1 to each channel to be able to watch live TV than fund the BBC and their over inflated salaries paid to overinflated egos
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 13, 2023 15:56:27 GMT
Gavyn Davies was Chair of the BBC in the period leading up to the invasion of Iraq, the invasion itself and some of the occupation. Quite difficult to not fall out with a PM hell bent on selling a set of bogus pretexts to Parliament and the UK public justifying that transparent lunacy: 'dodgy dossier', David Kelly, et al. And esp. with Alastair Campbell doing his hyper version of The Thick of It in your ear every day, threatening to saw off your dangly man bits.
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