What is going on over at BBC ?

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An interesting thread concerning Paul Thompsons timeline

http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=58323#58323&sid=3e906df5a3fefbd18cd3b1df86d4997f

BBC World was (I’m reasonably sure) being run by a woman called Dame Pauline Neville-Jones in 2001. BBC World is also not funded by the British state, which many people won’t know, but is funded by corporate donations and other “sponsors.”

Anyhow, Dame Pauline once headed the Joint Intelligence Committee in the UK, a body which brings together the heads of the various British intelligence bodies with political leaders. She went from intelligence, to running the BBC World Service (radio) from which BBC World was spun off in 1995.

Since leaving the BBC World Service, she has taken up a role on the board of QinetiQ (a corporation spun off from the UK defense establishment, from the privatization of which the Carlyle Group recently made a killing). She is also on the advisory board of the Intelligence Summit – where she joins Richard Perle, Kenneth Timmerman, Alrezi Jafarzadeh (the source of the U.S. “intelligence” on Iranian nuclear weapons programs).

A bit more on that:

http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/496/9/

(Dame Pauline Neville-Jones has quit the BBC board of governors a year early, after her links with defence firms supplying US forces in Iraq were exposed earlier this month.

Greg Dyke blamed Neville-Jones for helping to force him out as director-general following the Hutton Report. However, a spokeswoman for the BBC has denied that the departure of Neville-Jones is linked to her involvement with Qinetiq.

The calls for her to stand down came from backbench Labour MPs, including former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle and Llew Smith.

Smith said: "It is completely inappropriate that someone so senior in the BBC should be leading a firm making huge profits from the misery caused by the invasion of Iraq.")

[StrictlyRockers]

1. BBC seems to have a bit of an internal struggle going on.

[Laurier]

2. Huh? How do you figure?

You do realize that the story of Dame Pauline Neville-Jones leaving the BBC board is from 2003, don't you? This is hardly new or earth-shattering, and it certainly does not indicate any current "internal struggle" at the BBC.

The linked site is full of the same old, same old, conspiracy fantasists ruminating in a way that only conspiracy fantasists can do. It seems they see monsters under their beds at every turn. It's sad, really.