- Women at the top of the BBC tree Archived Message
- New BBC Director-General: if only he were a woman - margo June 6, 2020, 10:02 am
- And not a bloody Tory (NM) - Peter Cleall June 6, 2020, 10:24 am
Posted by Mary
on June 6, 2020, 11:50 am, in reply to "And not a bloody Tory (NM)"
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There are women and other women. Some of the BBC women are more obnoxious and right wing than the men. eg Caroline Thomson was the COO at the time of the DEC appeal for Gaza. She prohibited the airing of it. Mark Thompson who was the DG at the time supported her. He pushed off to NY to head the NY Times as President and CEO. In office as the DG, he visited Ariel Sharon in Israel with his wife, Jane Blum. Ms Thomson (aka Lady Liddle) moved into 'kultur' and headed the English National Ballet Company. She is now Chair at Oxfam. 'Thomson is the elder daughter of Labour peer George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth. She was educated at Mary Datchelor Girls' School in Camberwell, a grammar school and graduated from York University, where she read history and economics. She first joined the BBC as a journalist trainee in 1975, ultimately becoming a producer on Analysis (Radio 4) and later Panorama (BBC1) before becoming personal assistant to SDP leader Roy Jenkins in 1982. She spent over a decade at Channel 4 from 1984, initially as a commissioning editor, later as Head of Corporate Affairs from 1990, before rejoining the BBC in 1996 as Deputy Director of the World Service. She became the Corporation's Director of Policy and Legal Affairs in July 2000, a job description later expanded to include Strategy, before being promoted to chief operating officer in 2006. In 2011 she was paid £385,000 by the organisation. The Commons Public Accounts Committee suggested that her £670,000 redundancy pay-off was effectively paid to "compensate" her for missing out on the job of director-general. In October 2013 she became Executive Director of the English National Ballet. Since November 2012, she has been Chair of Digital UK. She is also chair of Tomorrow's People Trust's Ambassadors group and Trustee to a number of charities including the National Gallery.' These types are good at using their contacts to find niches for themselves. What a creature she is. |
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