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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Sam Walton, Hero of the People
The BBC has identified the mole who told us that they pay Chris Moyles £630,000 a year. Sam Walton, a 23-year-old temporary agency worker, has been sacked.
But why shouldn't we know how much people like Moyles are paid? It is our money.
I'm a subscriber to Lib Dem news. Am I entitled to know what if anything you get paid for House Points? I don't really feel that I am? Why does my right to know over ride your right to privacy? whats does Mills "harm" test really have to say about this?
The BBC is funded by a close relation of the poll tax. That leaves it with more obligations to openness than a newspaper publisher. So I do not think your analogy works.
Liberal Democrat News? Paid?? I'm still laughing at that one.
If we should know, it's the job of the BBC board to tell us, not a 23-year-old agency worker. He got sacked because he breached his employer's trust. You should be scaked for wonky logic :)
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I'm a subscriber to Lib Dem news. Am I entitled to know what if anything you get paid for House Points? I don't really feel that I am? Why does my right to know over ride your right to privacy? whats does Mills "harm" test really have to say about this?
The BBC is funded by a close relation of the poll tax. That leaves it with more obligations to openness than a newspaper publisher. So I do not think your analogy works.
Liberal Democrat News? Paid?? I'm still laughing at that one.
If we should know, it's the job of the BBC board to tell us, not a 23-year-old agency worker. He got sacked because he breached his employer's trust. You should be scaked for wonky logic :)
(I should be sacked for poor splelling!)
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