Posters may be interested in her speech, her first since taking on the job, at the Royal Television Society last night. Link to it here:
Rona Fairhead - new BBC Trust Chair Speaks
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by DracoM View PostHighly instructive is The Media Show on R4 right now.
Speakers on the show are baffled about Rona Fairhead's position and role as Chair of Trust.
Speech rather bland, but what else does one expect?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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RF's previous experience does not inspire great confidence:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/...iss-subsidiary
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One assumes she will be getting the same remuneration as Patten? £110,000 for a part-time job.
Plus she remains an exec director of er....HSBC and a non-exec of Pepsi-Cola.
So no conflict of interest then with the developing scandal over HSBC's laundering of drug money and hiding of taxable income in Swiss bank accounts.
Just what we need.
(Edited to add: Peter Oborne's resignation letter highlights the undue influence HSBC had over the Daily Telegraph's owners and editors. The threat to pull advertising from the paper if it continued with investigations or comment on them finally led to Oborne's decision to leave.)O Wort, du Wort, das mir Fehlt!
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Though on the Oborn matter, he did claim that the Telegraph didn't cover the BBC Panorama programme with anything like the coverage that other papers did.
There would be an internal (and external?) row if anyone on the BBC Trust attempted to influence management or editorial decisions. They would have to get past Tony Hall who, before his ROH job, was a newsman at the BBC.
Originally posted by Bax-of-Delights View PostOne assumes she will be getting the same remuneration as Patten? £110,000 for a part-time job.
Plus she remains an exec director of er....HSBC and a non-exec of Pepsi-Cola.
So no conflict of interest then with the developing scandal over HSBC's laundering of drug money and hiding of taxable income in Swiss bank accounts.
Just what we need.
(Edited to add: Peter Oborne's resignation letter highlights the undue influence HSBC had over the Daily Telegraph's owners and editors. The threat to pull advertising from the paper if it continued with investigations or comment on them finally led to Oborne's decision to leave.)It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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