'TV news prancers overpaid'.BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. newsreaders are paid too much, Commons leader Jack Straw said yesterday. And he mocked those journalists who "prance" around TV studios. Mr Straw said: "On the issue of whether newscasters should prance around studios or sit and read the news, which is what it seems to me they are paid for - and too much - I prefer the latter to the former." Commons leader Mr Straw was responding to a question by ex-Labour minister Chris Mullin Chris Mullin may refer to:
Mr Mullin warned the BBC would have difficulty justifying its licence fee if it did not raise its game. He criticised newsreaders walking around and accused the BBC of "cynically" editing a news story about Tony Blair. BBC newsreader A client program that is used to read messages from Internet-based discussion groups (the venerable Usenet) or syndication feeds such as RSS and Atom. Some programs provide a search and organization tool for both newsgroups and feeds as well as local e-mail messages, contacts and other Natasha Kaplinsky, 33, is on pounds 250,000 a year. |
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