BBC Trust gender bias? Proven correct!

BBC Trust gender bias? Proven correct!

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anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 1st September 2014
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In that case fire her immediately and appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into this scandal.

dandarez

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13,246 posts

282 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
Hey Dandarez, have you been Head of the FT Group, and a non exec at HSBC and Pepsico? I haven't, but Rona Fairhead has. But, oh, she only got the BBC job because she's a woman. No doubt she only got those other gigs because she's a woman, too. After all, if someone says that something might happen, and it does happen, that's conclusive proof that it was always going to happen, isn't it?
Sorry to bring this one up again. wink Naturally, I responded 'Of course not'.

I can now further add that neither have I ever been accused of money-laundering!

You couldn't make it up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750024/Ne...




turbobloke

103,744 posts

259 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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dandarez said:
Breadvan72 said:
Hey Dandarez, have you been Head of the FT Group, and a non exec at HSBC and Pepsico? I haven't, but Rona Fairhead has. But, oh, she only got the BBC job because she's a woman. No doubt she only got those other gigs because she's a woman, too. After all, if someone says that something might happen, and it does happen, that's conclusive proof that it was always going to happen, isn't it?
Sorry to bring this one up again. wink Naturally, I responded 'Of course not'.

I can now further add that neither have I ever been accused of money-laundering!

You couldn't make it up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750024/Ne...
Article said:
Mrs Fairhead chaired the bank’s ‘risk committee’ in 2012, when it was fined £1.2billion by US authorities to settle allegations that it allowed drug traffickers to launder millions of pounds.

Michael Mason-Mahon, an HSBC shareholder who filed the case in a New York court on May 7, said it would be an ‘obscene joke’ to appoint Mrs Fairhead to head the BBC given her senior role at the bank.
Breadvan72 said:
In that case fire her immediately and appoint a Royal Commission to enquire into this scandal.
Totally out of context, yet marvellously in context.

Regardles of the outcome, presiding over one costly fiasco then moving to preside over another, clearly she does indeed have 'all the skills' for top dollar BBC work.