The national broadcaster should admit that the issue of pay is a mess and then actually try to sort it outUnlike “fake news”, equality is an ancient word, so it probably has less chance of becoming 2018’s word of the year than Carrie Gracie does of becoming BBC director general. And yet, equality is already shaping up to be the defining battle of the year. As is so often the case, the BBC is right there on the front line.And as ever with the BBC and crises, the situation occasionally seems more Dad’s Army than Dunkirk. Which other organisation would write that, although the former China editor had been “inadvertently underpaid” by some £100,000, she had not been the victim of discrimination because the Mandarin-speaking, 30-year BBC veteran was only “in development” when she took on the job. Continue reading…
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