Number Crunching
The latest edition of Private Eye - the UK's best and only fortnightly satirical magazine - has an eye-opening article on the 'double standards' that operate at the BBC these days, i.e one law for those at the top - but a different one for the poor old footsoldiers.
NUMBER CRUNCHING
£36.65p
Cash BBC refused to spend of a bottle of champagne as leaving present for BBC Tees presenter Brian Arrundale after 33 year career with corporation
£450,000
Cash BBC gave George Entwistle as leaving present after he was forced to resign after 54 days as director-general
£70,000
Bonus BBC gave chief technology officer John Linwood months before suspending him over disastrous Digital Media Initiative which lost £100 million
Now if you were being completely pernickety, you could ask why Brian Arrundale's colleagues - especially the senior ones - didn't buy him a bottle of champagne or two out of their own pockets.
But that would be churlish, I suppose and after 33 years service I think the BBC licence fee payers can stand Brian a drink or two - though it's the treatment of Brian's much more senior colleagues that sticks in my throat.
