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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
The corporate greed of the City has now spread to the BBC, judging by the BBC's annual report, which reveals the salaries and bonuses of executives. The director-general Mark 'Biter' Thompson now earns 459,000 [pounds sterling] a year and his deputy Mark Byford 351,000 [pounds sterling] plus a bonus of 92,000 [pounds sterling]--a total of 457,000 [pounds sterling] with benefits. Does anyone think that Jana Bennett, the director of television, is worth 334,000 [pounds sterling] a year, bonus included, when last week there wasn't one single BBC 1 television programme I, and no doubt many others, wanted to watch? Thompson, incidentally, refused his bonus of 135,000 [pounds sterling] at a time when he's making redundancies, so I sincerely hope he and his family don't suffer too much hardship from this...
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