British lawmakers delivered a stinging rebuke on Monday to top BBC executives and trustees, including the corporation's former chief Mark Thompson, saying their award of severance payments to outgoing managers appeared to be part of a culture of cronyism.
In a report which included an assessment of payments of 25 million pounds made to 150 departing BBC staff from 2009 to 2012, parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said many of them "far exceeded" contractual entitlements, that some of the justifications put forward were "extraordinary", and that the BBC's governance model was "broken".
"There was a failure at the most senior levels of the BBC to challenge the actual payments and prevailing culture, in which cronyism was a factor that allowed for the liberal use of other people's money," the PAC said in a statement.
The scale of some of the severance payments, many of them made as austerity cuts swept Britain, angered politicians and members of the public, who fund the broadcaster through a compulsory license fee. Full story...
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In a report which included an assessment of payments of 25 million pounds made to 150 departing BBC staff from 2009 to 2012, parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said many of them "far exceeded" contractual entitlements, that some of the justifications put forward were "extraordinary", and that the BBC's governance model was "broken".
"There was a failure at the most senior levels of the BBC to challenge the actual payments and prevailing culture, in which cronyism was a factor that allowed for the liberal use of other people's money," the PAC said in a statement.
The scale of some of the severance payments, many of them made as austerity cuts swept Britain, angered politicians and members of the public, who fund the broadcaster through a compulsory license fee. Full story...
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