19th of July 2017 - Speak Piece Cheaply Unto Nation

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19th of July 2017

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

SPEAK PIECE CHEAPLY UNTO NATION

I am spectacularly underconcerned at the level of the BBC's remuneration of popular entertainers whose programmes are no doubt marketed by the Corporation at a profit.

 

What is hard to stomach is the proportion of my licence fee being spent on mere newsreaders when surely such "talent" can be sourced cheaply from regional programmes. Even better, with Brexit in prospect, the BBC should look to recruit more broadcasters from our former colonies in the West Indies where wages may be low but the standards of literacy and spoken language seem infinitely superior to those currently obtaining in this benighted land.

John Eoin Douglas