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More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services

Posted by scrabb <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=scrabb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 18, 2024, 3:40 pm

£24 million sounds a lot doesn’t it? And welcome news.

But in the same press release it says £24 million equals just 4 per cent of the total news budget.

Which means £6 million equals ONE PER CENT of the total news budget.

Which means the total BBC budget for news alone equals £600 million —

Or well over half a billion pounds a year on news services.

Personally I think this is astonishing and a scanal that should be more widely known and discussed. This is your money they’re spending, don’t forget (and let’s not even mention Hew Edwards and the £40,000 raise he got while under investigation for online activity involving a minor).

The BBC is rampantly out of control. It also provides one of the worst news services currently available — and at a cost of over half-a-billion. What a joke. And the joke’s on you and me.

Re: More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 18, 2024, 4:09 pm, in reply to "More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services"

Every time I ever take a look at the BiBiC news, just out of interest to see what they are up to (not for education or enlightenment, of course) there are always several new "foreign correspondents" or "foreign editors", or economic correspondents, editors, more correspondents, more editors, or so and so reporting from here, there and everywhere...hacks that I have never seen before and probably never will again!
The BBC seem to breed these bloody hacks like tribbles!
What the feck are they all for? It's bloody ridiculous and all traveling around the country and world, getting put up etc etc etc, all on the licence fee payer's dime.
Then of course, the wages of the top professional liars and news readers...disgusting and insulting.

Re: More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 18, 2024, 6:03 pm, in reply to "More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services"

Before Edwards was convicted, he was an innocent man and should have suffered no detriment. Now he's been convicted it's different.

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Re: More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 18, 2024, 6:21 pm, in reply to "Re: More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services"

"Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you it was "detriments" like us that built this bloody Empire and the Izzat of the bloody Raj, 'ats on!

Re: More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 18, 2024, 6:33 pm, in reply to "Re: More on the £24 million cuts to BBC news services"

"Peachy's gone south for the week."

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

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