tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post1446647709435410870..comments2024-03-08T15:43:20.236+00:00Comments on Keynesian Liberal: Self-harming BBCPeter Wrigleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-91708627094952296082012-11-16T17:00:49.452+00:002012-11-16T17:00:49.452+00:00So, Lord McAlpine is to receive £185 000 "da...So, Lord McAlpine is to receive £185 000 "damages", plus legal fees, from the BBC as compensation for the alleged libel (though according to Diane Abbott, above, he was never actually named.) <br /><br />That's a lot of money and, remember, it's our money, coming from the licence fees those under 75 pay. I wonder what he'll do with it, as he's 70 years old and, as my step-mother once put it to me. "When you're old you don't need money." I presume she meant over and above subsistence level, which she was and which I'm pretty sure Lord McAlpine will be since, according to Wikipedia:<br /><br /> "In 2010 he stepped down from his seat in the House of Lords because of changes in the British tax code, in order to maintain his non-domiciled status and so be able to avoid paying UK residents' taxes."<br /><br />Maybe we shall hear what charity will benefit from this largess.Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-46613406042762409222012-11-14T17:05:21.949+00:002012-11-14T17:05:21.949+00:00Thanks for your comment, Richard. Diane Abbott ma...Thanks for your comment, Richard. Diane Abbott makes a very pertinent comparison in today's "Guardian":<br /><br />"Politicians and commentators insist on claiming that Newsnight named the alleged Tory paedophile when it did nothing of the sort. The people screaming for yet more BBC resignations had nothing to say about the case of Christopher Jefferies who was actually named (complete with photographs ) by no fewer than eight newspapers as the alleged murderer of Joanna Yates. Yet no newspaper editor or manager resigned over that."<br /><br />The whole, short, article, "It's dangerous for us to feed the hysteria engulfing the BBC" is worth reading Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-21567203272628226292012-11-14T11:06:15.968+00:002012-11-14T11:06:15.968+00:00It is interesting that the Murdoch press has been ...It is interesting that the Murdoch press has been particularly vociferous in its attacks on the BBC; the combination of self interest and self righteousness is neither unexpected nor edifying when its own conduct is examined. The outlook of Telegraph and Mail is explicable (I assume) in a simplistic private public perspective but also because the BBC's general impartiality is anathema to the distortions of both news and opinion from both papers - the Telegraph relatively recently in what I see as its pursuit of the Mail's readership. The paradox is of course that the majority of readers generally value and accept the BBC's worth. Richard Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07839924098929875524noreply@blogger.com