Wednesday, November 23, 2005
BBC Pays £60,000 for Statue As They Lay Off Hundreds of Workers
When any company lays off workers, organized labor and liberal interest groups scream bloody murder - and, as in Enron, blame everyone from George W. Bush on down.
Now, throw into the mix that the company doing the layoffs spends $100,000 for a piece of sculpture, in the midst of the layoffs. Horror, no?
So, how come the utter silence when the BBC, one of the triad of the Axis of Journalistic Evil (along with CNN and al-Jazeera, all of which peddle an anti-American, anti-George W. Bush, and anti-Israel message), in the middle of firing hundreds of people as it continues to suck millions of pounds from the British people who are forced to pay the wholly illegal "license fee" that the government mandates, spends £60,000 for a piece of sculpture?
Why? Because liberals are hypocrites, that's why.
BBC invented excuse to buy Emin sculpture
So, not only did the BBC buy this crap, but lied about the details behind the purchase.
And the Blair government continues to fund these leftist thugs. Incredible.
When any company lays off workers, organized labor and liberal interest groups scream bloody murder - and, as in Enron, blame everyone from George W. Bush on down.
Now, throw into the mix that the company doing the layoffs spends $100,000 for a piece of sculpture, in the midst of the layoffs. Horror, no?
So, how come the utter silence when the BBC, one of the triad of the Axis of Journalistic Evil (along with CNN and al-Jazeera, all of which peddle an anti-American, anti-George W. Bush, and anti-Israel message), in the middle of firing hundreds of people as it continues to suck millions of pounds from the British people who are forced to pay the wholly illegal "license fee" that the government mandates, spends £60,000 for a piece of sculpture?
Why? Because liberals are hypocrites, that's why.
BBC invented excuse to buy Emin sculpture
The BBC was embarrassed last night by e-mails that showed it “invented” a justification for spending £60,000 of licence payers’ money commissioning a Tracey Emin sculpture.
Emin’s Roman Standard sculpture of a bird on a post was bought by the BBC at a time when Mark Thompson, its director-general, was announcing big cost cuts.
Internal e-mails revealed serious doubts within the organisation about spending so much on a sculpture that had no links to the corporation.
An e-mail dated February 22 from senior BBC publicist Janet Morrow to Vanda Rumney, head of communications, gave warning that the commission could create a “sticky situation on the public art front which could blow up”.
Morrow noted that the sculpture “is not connected to a BBC building, nor is it linked in any way to a BBC broadcast or BBC activity — the BBC has purely used licence fee money to create a public sculpture”.
She then said she had “invented” a “plausible line” to justify the commission. Her line, that the BBC should claim it had a long history of commissioning visual art, was later adopted by Alan Yentob, the BBC’s creative director.
So, not only did the BBC buy this crap, but lied about the details behind the purchase.
And the Blair government continues to fund these leftist thugs. Incredible.
