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Originally Posted by andy_m
I agree, but would point out that the tax has been frozen, rather than cut...
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I knew someone would mention this. However, when you add in everything extra that they have now been given to do
with the same money (like funding the World Service) then it does amount to a real-world cut of something like 16-20%
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It's really hard to argue that at a time when households are having to make tough decisions an organisation which once paid Jonathon Ross £18m shouldn't shoulder some of the burden.
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No they did not
You shouldn't believe everything you read in certain newspapers with proven anti-BBC agendas (which then gets repeated as fact in other papers.)
IIRC (and it was some years ago now
) that £18m was, in fact, the amount paid to his production company over three (or so) years for everything they produced for the BBC; which was more than just the one BBC1 chat show.
I don't agree with the principle of the idea (ie the BBC making smarter, better use of the money it gets) but the situation is not helped when completely incorrect information, such as the above, is quoted as truth.