Flogging a dead, anything, if the money is right

WOSS - THE SIX MILLION WONDER?

I was going to start with 'to be fair', but will simply note that if media outlets ignored the siren call of PR then our airwaves would be a barren place.

However....

As we are on this site, talking about (in the main) just one broadcaster, one has to wonder why we have to pay for a supposedly ad-free entity when almost every aspect can be bought, cheap, merely by a special relationship existing between some London-luvvies in the BBC and their very good chums around town.

I can sort of live (though why I don't know. Shifting tickets for money is no different to flogging anything else for profit) with a plug for a show or book (though it's wearing thin wheeling out a gallon of peroxide under the guise of being 'this month's spokeswoman for..' when in fact all parties really want to do, and do do is ditch the charity quicksmart to get to the goss on the new B-list outing) but when even main news does it you have to wonder.

I can almost set my watch by our Declan having Sir Stuart Rose on with a rack of M&S stuff to flog in the name of something 'business-related'.

I know all the others do it but... repeat after many before me... 'we don't have to pay for them'.

This mythical Charter-thingy seems to be popped through the shredder more than the DG's monthly receipts.

Addendum: BBC Breakfast 17/09 - The above picture captured just a moment too late to have both as book ends holding up their mighty tomes for us to read and rush out and buy.