BBC wastes millions on bizarre schemes like staff webinar on how to drink water

thesun.co.uk:

THE BBC is wasting millions a year on woke and bizarre schemes you could find in its sitcom W1A. It comes as bosses are threatening cuts over the TV licence fee’s two-year freeze.

W1A, which ran from 2014 to 2017, poked fun at Beeb execs over weird ideas. But a Sun on Sunday probe found real examples such as £12million of the existing Radio and Music budget being spent over three years on “diverse and inclusive content”.

The Beeb’s part-time diversity champion, meanwhile, gets £267,000 a year for working only a three-day week. The Children in Need department in Manchester and BBC Studios both recently advertised for a Diversity and Inclusion lead.

And an advert for an £80,000-a-year Radio 3 commissioning editor ­required applicants “to lead on diversity and inclusion strategy”. @font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Regular.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.ttf') format('truetype'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-Medium.svg#') format('svg');font-style:normal;font-weight:500;font-display:swap;}@font-face{font-family:'The Sun';src:url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-HeavyNarrow.woff2') format('woff2'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-HeavyNarrow.woff') format('woff'),url('/assets/fonts/the-sun/TheSun-HeavyNarrow.ttf').