How Can The BBC Justify These Obcene Salaries?!

Yes I nicked the title of this thread in respect of a headline from tomorrows UK Daily Mail.
I make no excuses for that.
But particularly in view of the BBC ending the free TV Licence for the over 75s surely this is a massive insult to all who have to pay for a BBC Licence?
Of course it is!

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Fury as BBC pledges reform while staff pay soars 3.5% - despite stripping 1.5m of free TV licences | Daily Mail Online

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The BBC has come under fire after it published accounts today showing that staff pay had soared 3.5 per cent to £1.5billion this year - while the Corporation pushes ahead with its plans to strip a million over-75s of their free TV licences.

Accounts published at noon showed that Zoe Ball is now the BBC's highest earner after pocketing a £1million pay rise - knocking Gary Lineker off the top spot.

The Match of the Day star, 59, is understood to have signed a new five-year contract - and a nearly 25 per cent pay cut from £1.75million down to £1.35million.


Responding to the news, Lineker sarcastically tweeted: 'Oh dear. Thoughts are with the haters at this difficult time.'

Radio 2 presenter Ball, 49, is now earning £1.36million despite losing nearly a million listeners after the corporation pledged to tackle the gender pay gap.

They have been trying to level up the pay of male and female stars to repair damage to the corporation’s reputation and reduce discord among staff.

Equality issues led to the BBC handing out a settlement to former China editor Carrie Gracie in 2018 and then earlier this year losing an equal pay tribunal case to Samira Ahmed.








Furious Twitter accounts lashed out at the BBC, with one commenting: 'There is no possible way that anyone can justify the extortionate salaries at the BBC.
'This simply can't go on. Using the license fee as a way of paying for some of the BBC dinosaurs should be a criminal offence'.

Responding to Lineker's pay rise, one tweeted: 'How the hell can they justify giving Lineker such an obscene salary?'

Another commented: 'Mr Lineker, do you not feel any sense of guilty at receiving such an obscene amount of money?'

'You smug bar steward,' one account tweeted:

'That's the elderly you're insulting whilst gloating.

You get paid your inflated salary directly from a ridiculous tax.

'If the BBC had to pay its own way, you'd be singing a different song'.

Another commented: 'How can the BBC justify these disgusting salaries?'

The BBC today announced its highest earners list which shows staff wages rose to £1.6bIllion:

 

I can't speak on the obscene salaries, but I've wondered for eons who supports the royal family lives...???? Reading where Harry and Meghan just purchased a $14Million "cottage" near Santa Barbara CA.....talk about obscene...

And so many homeless in the U.S.....talk about obscene.