The BBC is an easy target because it makes a lot of its money from licence fees. Somehow that makes a lot of people think they know best how to run it. They don’t, of course, but the fact that the revelation of its bosses’ expenses has happened today – just after Parliament has been hauled over the coals for MPs shameful squandering of public funds – means they’re ready and willing to drag it over the same political coals.
Here’s a headline:
£350,000. Tsk tsk tsk. That’s 2,456 licence fees gone on expenses.
Why isn’t it more?
It sounds like a lot, but that £350K was run up by ten board members. An average of £35,000 each.
Over five years. So an average of £7,000 per person per year.
To run the BBC – a job that involved international travel, late nights, wooing suppliers, customers and talent, researching, entertaining and providing five national television networks, ten national radio networks, the World Service (radio and TV), 40 local radio stations and countless web sites.
They should really be congratulated for keeping things under such tight control.
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