FIRST CLASS TO DC...
>> SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2010
Did you read that expenses claims lodged by Peter Horrocks, the director of the World Service and BBC Global News, show he travelled business class for a British General Election reception on May 6th held at the British Embassy in Washington DC. He flew back to London the following day.
The flights cost £1,780 with an additional £181.49 spent on his hotel room. Mr Horrocks, who earns £242,800 a year, also charged the corporation £79.60 for taxis to and from the airport in Washington and a further £19.44 for 'access to secure BBC internet'.Ain't life grand when you can tap into £3bn per annum? Vital business, obviously.
SUNDAY MORNING LIVE
Well, the big question the BBC asks this morning via the pouting Suzanne Reid on Sunday Morning Live is.."Should the age of consent be lowered to 14"? Peter Tatchell was on to pontificate on this subject, hardly appropriate for a Sunday morning but the BBC see to get excited about it.
MANDELA WORSHIP...AN ONGOING SERIES
>> SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2010
Whilst figures such as Lady Thatcher and Ronald Reagan have always attracted BBC opprobrium, Nelson Mandela has been one of their heroes, beyond criticism, a knight in shining armour. Did you catch this latestgushing tribute to the elderly Marxist? It's not that I think it fair enough to discuss Mandela but the sort of starry-eyed hero worship continually served up by the BBC does not provide the full story. It might not suit the BBC but perhaps there are other aspects to his life that merit consideration so we get a balanced view of this man?
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