Breitbart London: The BBC has been forced to reveal the salaries of nearly 100 high-paid media personalities after fighting “tooth and nail” against the list’s publication, but has deflected criticism over the bill by focusing on their own gender pay gap instead.
Top Gear presenter Chris Evans was paid at least £2.2m by the BBC last year while Gary Lineker received more than £1.75m, according to figures published by the corporation after a government order to disclose the figures.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told the Commons last September that it would help ensure the BBC “produces value for money for the licence fee”, and that more transparency could lead to savings that could then be “invested in even more great programmes.”
In a bid to limit the damage, BBC boss Lord Tony Hall sent a video message to staff prior to the list’s publication, reminding them that their salaries are large sums to most licence fee payers, stating: “We are dealing with the public’s money.”
Former Conservative culture secretary John Whittingdale, told the Today programme: “If somebody is earning the equivalent of 1,000 households’ licence fees put together, going to one single person, then the licence fee payer deserves to know.”
It must be highly satisfying to the immoral
to play grand games with other people’s money.
I’d be more interested in what katty kay on bbc America makes in comparison to say, matt liar or georgie stephanocculus.
And yet another round of pay raises about to start. What’s the matter with these womens’s agents? They’re the one who are supposed to fight for their clients and they would be the ones to know what the others are being paid and bargain accordingly. If the BBC figures that they can replace the woman on air personalities far easier then the higher paid men then that’s life and the women had either learn to live with it or expand their own on air personalitites to make themselves just as indispensable.
Better yet, the BBC can can the license fee approach and start accepting ads. You’ll find out soon enough who’s truly worth the big salaries.
So … the dumb limeys just got around to asking?
Socialism! Ain’t it grand?
Keep the stupid peasants … well … stupid … and steal everything that ain’t tied down! and convince em it’s for their own good … what a scam!
(by the way, I’ll read the crappy limey “news” for half that … but in gold … not that Euro-Trash-Money)
izlamo delenda est …
AI ‘presenters’ coming to BBC soon!
Don’t tellum What Megan Kelly was making over at NBC – they’ll shit their britches….
Besides, after the crown takes their cut, it’s less than half that anyway.
Uh oh! Liberal BBC is going to have to justify gender pay gaps.
AWKWARD!