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It's about time!

by Emsbabee @ 2007-05-09 - 07:50:07

Patrick, you've said what we've ALL been thinking.

For a start, look at the people they've got on the BBC Trust:

Sir Michael Lyons (Chair)
Chitra Bharucha (Vice-Chair)
Diane Coyle
Alison Hastings
Patricia Hodgson
Rotha Johnston
Janet Lewis-Jones
David Liddiment
Mehmuda Pritchard

Women completely outnumber men! There are even Indian women present! I suppose they know their place a lot better than British women do, and are possibly a sneaky way of keeping the others in check by reminding them who is rightfully in charge.

Then we have the executive board:

Mark Thompson (Board Chairman and Director-General)
Mark Byford (Deputy Chairman and Deputy Director-General; Director, Journalism Group)
Caroline Thomson (Chief Operating Officer)
Jana Bennett (Director, BBC Vision)
Jenny Abramsky (Director, BBC Audio and Music)
Ashley Highfield (Director, Future Media and Technology)
John Smith (Chief Executive, BBC Worldwide)
Zarin Patel (Group Finance Director)
Steve Kelly (Director, BBC People)
Tim Davie (Director, Marketing, Communications and Audiences)

Non-executive directors:
Marcus Agius (Senior non-executive director), Chairman, Barclays
Dr Mike Lynch OBE, co-founder and Chief Executive, Autonomy Corporation
David Robbie, Group Finance Director, Rexam
Dr Samir Shah OBE, Chief Executive, Juniper Communications
Robert Webb QC, General Counsel, British Airways

Good God. It reads like a list of attendees at a WI meeting! Alright, so they have a few 'complimentary' men in the highest positions of power, but do you think they can make themselves heard amongst all the squawking and cackling and pre-menstrual rage?

No wonder the BBC is stuffed full of nonsense about knitting and ovaries. If you employ monkeys, you get peanuts and if you employ women, you get appalling programmes about cooking and dressmaking.

"I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making women commanders, that kind of thing. I stopped watching."

Frankly sir, I don't blame you. Who wants to watch an accurate portrayal of society (set in space)? What has this country come to?

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