The BBC has been fined £400,000 for fiddling phone-in shows. In a typical example a member of staff posed as the winner, and people phoning in on premium rate lines had no chance of winning.
And what, may I ask, is the point of this? The viewer or listener is fiddled, and then because the BBC is funded by the viewers and listeners has to pay the fine for his being cheated.
Ofcom, another body paid for by the taxpayer/viewer/listener, said that the BBC ‘had put in place compliance training for its entire staff, created a competition code of conduct, developed additional guidance on competitions and launched a new in-house centre of expertise for telephony’
How many people were sacked, for cheating the customers, and how many of these fraudsters reported to the police (obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception is still a crime, I think)?
No, go on, you guess.
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