I think we both know the answer to that. I would simply ask what real contribution to society does each make? The BBC salaries simply reflect the inverted values society places on "celebrities".Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
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I think we both know the answer to that. I would simply ask what real contribution to society does each make? The BBC salaries simply reflect the inverted values society places on "celebrities".
So should we cancel all music, art, sport etc and just make people work for the good of society? Maybe also double the salaries for everyone working on the bins.
Or maybe all those in sport, the arts etc also contribute to society.
I would ask myself how would society function without enough doctors and binmen compared to a world without Gary Lineker, Zoe Ball, Claudia Winkleman and the other highly paid "celebrities" on the BBC payroll?
Ok what do you think they should be paid?
The average BBC salary is £36K p.a. (The average UK salary is £31K). Let's be generous and pay Lineker double the average BBC salary so £72K. Would you agree that £72K is a pretty good salary for what he actually does? I'm sure someone will come along and tell me that he could earn umpteen more times than that on SKY, then so be it, let him go to SKY; then I wouldn't be paying his salary from my TV licence fee any more and the money saved could be going towards what the BBC does best: news, documentaries, dramas etc.
Even if you don't subscribe, you're still paying for sky through the products you buy.
No I don't agree.
There'll be plenty on this board that earn £72k but not one of them could present like he can with his experience of doing it at the highest level.
Why do folk think commercial tv is free? In the long run I’d imagine it costs more than the set figure of the tv licence. TV advertising certainly isn’t cheap, Snoop Dog allegedly received £5.3 million for his Just Eat adverts, I don’t reckon all the local chippies kept their prices the same and chipped in out of their own pockets. A chunk of your vehicle insurance premiums will be going towards paying those f*cking meerkats. Nothing’s free and ITV, Sky, BT aren’t using their own money, it’s money that we’re all chipping in to and not an insignificant amount.
if you pay a presenter of a tv show watched by millions £72k, then anyone who was any good would leave almost straight away for more money elsewhere.
Even youtubers that are watched as much as that make more than that probably.
He's very good at his job.
I really don't want to watch MOTD with a £72k main presenter.
But he talks about immigrants and it makes me uncomfortable.
Is it only these people on the BBC that is the problem?
Or is it a wider problem? If so, I can't think of any other way to resolve it than communism.
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