BBC Payoffs
The enormous generosity shown by the BBC towards some of its departing senior executives is not just a public disgrace - it's a breach of trust by an organisation that appears to have been out of control for years.
The latest revelation is that the BBC agreed to fund a redundancy payoff of nearly £700,000 to a former senior executive using licence fee money - after she moved to BBC Worldwide, a separate employer and the corporation's commercial arm.
But the obvious question - to most normal human beings anyway - is why in the world would the BBC pay almost £700,000 of public money to a senior figure who was voluntarily moving to another well paid job?
It simply beggars belief, as does the earlier decision to award the outgoing No. 2 at the BBC - Mark Byford - a golden goodbye worth over £1.1 million by artificially engineering his notice period.
So it's no surprise to learn that an investigation by the National Audit Office - a public spending watchdog - has concluded that many senior BBC staff were paid much more than they were entitled to receive on heading for the exit door - £2 million more to be precise.
So it's no surprise to learn that an investigation by the National Audit Office - a public spending watchdog - has concluded that many senior BBC staff were paid much more than they were entitled to receive on heading for the exit door - £2 million more to be precise.
And that's without looking critically at the exceptionally generous exit terms that senior figures at the Beeb had negotiated for themselves - on top of their monopoly money salaries worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year.
