not to mention those footballers getting paid so much to kick a ball around, or those actors getting paid to lie for a living...
And yet this thread is 22 pages long, has been running for nearly 2 years, you joined the conversation in Jan 2022, and in 18 posts on the subject of the BBC you only remembered that Lineker's wage enraged you for the first time at the start of November 2023 when you first mentioned him in the thread? Edit: I should also add that Lineker's name first appeared in the thread very early on in Jan 2022, in a discussion about his wage, as well - you'd think that would trigger something in you if you have always been so against his wage......
As I said earlier in the thread, people on TV get inflated wages, it's always been the case because they're 'stars' or 'celebrities'. Personally I can't stand Vernon Kay, Fiona Bruce or Jeremy Vine, but at least none of them are Richard Madeley! The point is the BBC is expected to pay TV wages for its 'talent', if they fired Lineker and Ball tomorrow they'd just be replaced by equally vacuous talking heads.
It's the same when people moan about footballers getting paid too much. It is what it is. These people are in popular public positions and could go anywhere else and get a similar or better wage. Like **** me, look how much Farage is being paid by ITV to sit about in a jungle eating ballsacks for a week. I am sure plenty of people who "like" Farage don't bat an eyelid at it. And in the end as we have seen through the recent strikes, it doesn't take long for people to then moan that x, y, z earn too much. Too many people in this country are just of the opinion that those they perceive as having it better than them need to be torn down a bit.
You only need to look at how shit Soccer Saturday is now to understand why the BBC pay Lineker what they do. As soon as he goes and they replace him with Dion Dublin, Michael Owen or Garth Crooks or something it'll be far less watchable.
I don't get the hate of jemas as he's been worked on for a long time as a "presenter" by the BBC on the one show etc. I see no reason a top professional footballer needs to be the presenter role on Motd. you've pundits and analysis so almost the presenter needs to do is read off the autoprompter.
Yup defund an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, who's critics attack it because it holds them accountable, because a tv presenter had a joke with her colleagues that was badly timed. And then what do you suggest? Replace it with a murdoch owned tv company that biased as standard? Or maybe more to your liking RT? Seriously you need help mush, there's deprogramming groups out there why not get in contact with one for your own mental health
The current TV licence fee of £159 will increase by £10.50 - a rise of 6.6% - the government has announced. The figure has been determined using September's rate of inflation, rather than an average across the last year. Due to the recent fall in inflation, that means the £169.50 figure is less than the BBC and Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had anticipated. The decision to raise it by a smaller percentage will leave an expected funding gap of around £90m. The government is also launching a review of the BBC's funding model, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer told MPs. The increased fee will come into effect in April, having been frozen at £159 for the past two years. BBC funding: TV licence fee to rise by £10.50, government says
Pathetic suggestion made by people with no serious argument or contribution to make. There are none so biased as those who refuse to see their own and you prove the point perfectly.
Newsreader clearly having a laugh with her coworkers accidentally being shown on air is a pretty interesting new reason to defund the BBC.
The wonderful Naga Munchetty has seemingly caused a furore in the Twitter bubble because she said something controversial on a topical news comedy show. I've always liked her, and now I like her even more!
If I were Gary Lineker, I think I'd have been consulting my lawyers today: Gary Lineker seemed to break rules, next BBC chairman says I don't think Soccer Saturday in its present form is anything like as bad as its critics might want to make out. You could put pretty much any panel of pundits you wanted in there and it would be fine and Simon Thomas is a very good presenter in his own right. His problem is that he took over the show from someone in Jeff Stelling who was not only brilliant but, in my view, is up there among the very finest sports broadcasters we've ever had in this country.
