PD James talks to BBC director general Mark Thompson on theToday Programme

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I suppose there is no need for the comments and photos but listen and enjoy anyway!
£834,000 per annum - wow!
It is a great shame there are not more people like Phyllis Dorothy James in public service these days.

Part of the transcript is on the Daily Telegraph website:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6920354/How-PD-James-skewered-t...

A Daily Mail write-up too:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239645/BBC-savages-unwieldy-bureucra...

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  • Mark Thompson is an incompetent, money grabbing fuckwit. I stopped paying my licence fee as I will not fund this bastards pension fund.

  • PD James for DG! The disastrous Mark Thompson earns double the salary of Greg Dyke which wasn't that long ago - unfortunately, the BBC has become a gravy train for useless overpaid managers who sack programme making staff, dragging down the reputation of the BBC.

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  • @gushoodwink "Just because you agree with it doesn't make it 'objective'" - Again, another assumption.

    "You are genuinely not worthy of talking to any more" - Then stop.

    "and it normally pushes out the critical faculties" - More insults.

    "so save yourself the time" - I do as I please.

    "Have shown your comments to 5 other people and they think that you need help" - Another churlish insult. If you wish to debate with me then you need to raise your game. You can't debate with insults.

  • @gushoodwink "won't be replying again" - You've said this twice now. Feel free to admit defeat by walking away from the debate.

  • @gushoodwink "The BBC license fee IS £145" - That's why I said there would be no change for the average person *facepalm*

    "The BBC makes the best programmes in the world" - No. Most of what it makes is garbage, which is why people have to fork out more money, after already paying for the BBC extortion fee, for decent TV (Sky/Virgin etc)

    "It is a breath of fresh air from the reality TV rubbish you get on commercial stations" - You are comparing garbage with garbage.

  • @gushoodwink "The Guardian is (famously) the place everyone goes to look for jobs". No it is not. Were it so then perhaps it would not be the loss making enterprise that it is. It is the place where *lefties* go to find jobs.

  • @0muffins0 Your lack of knowledge is frightening. The BBC license fee IS £145 and it has been fixed at that amount for the next 6 years.

    The BBC makes the best programmes in the world. It is a breath of fresh air from the reality TV rubbish you get on commercial stations, It sells more programmes to other countries than any other single media organisation. Run along, won't be replying again.

  • @0muffins0 Your lack of knowledge is frightening. The BBC license fee IS £145 and it has been fixed at that amount for the next 6 years.

    The BBC makes the best programmes in the world. It is a breath of fresh air from the reality TV rubbish you get on commercial stations, It sells more programmes to other countries than any other single media organisation. Run along, won't be replying again.

  • @0muffins0 Just because you agree with it doesn't make it 'objective'. You are genuinely not worthy of talking to any more. You are full of that hubris that young 'activists' are and it normally pushes out the critical faculties. Have marked this as spam so won't be able to read any replies so save yourself the time. Have shown your comments to 5 other people and they think that you need help. In a very serious way. I know you don't think you do. I know that.

  • @gushoodwink If the BBC really is so good, it should move to a subscription service rather than bullying everyone for money. Licence Fee evasion would fall to zero since no subscription = no BBC channels. They could even set it at £145 so there would be no change for the average person.

    Oh wait ... the BBC would implode since voluntary subscription would pull in only a fraction of today's mandatory subscription system, considering the BBC makes little that is not garbage.

  • @gushoodwink 1) If you did not use strawmen in your arguments, I wouldn't be pointing them out. 2) ZH do not report 'opinion'. Learn to read. You might have learned about Greece a full year before your BBC discovered the story. 3) We have a blatantly biased broadcaster that extracts money from the public via vile threatening letters and home visits by goons regardless of whether people have televisions or not.

  • @0muffins0 The Guardian is (famously) the place everyone goes to look for jobs. It is where the best companies advertise. If you want to prove your case, go and get stats on which newspaper oil companies and multi-nationals advertise.Have you done that? Because if you haven't, your research is woefully inadequate.You will find they advertise there too, does that mean they are recruiting lefties? No, it means the Guardian is where all the best people advertise.Your opinions are unfalsifiable

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