THE Director General of the BBC has said that paying high salaries to certain employees prevents them from migrating to other competing companies.

This con has also been manufactured by banks and markets in order to delude the public.

Let's examine the BBC's prognosis. The so called 'talented' Vanessa Feltz is paid nearly £400 grand for what? I have only seen this lady three or four times on national television.

Nothing of utterances warrant the enormous sum paid to her.

I cannot comment on Chris Evans as the only things I know about him is that he is a keen amateur golfer who advertises expensive cars on a Sunday.

Next is the 'talented' Alan Yentob, on half a million plus, who produces and appears in occasional midnight programmes on obscure artists which I imagine only a only a minority actually watch.

Not exactly the refined quality of 'monitor' and the biographical films of Ken Russell!

Then there's Claudia Winkleman, daughter of influential journalist, Eve Pollard, on nearly £400 grand for smiling and talking to a camera on a dance floor.

With enormous salaries being paid out to such prodigious talent, no wonder the BBC has lost its sports coverage to Sky.

We are left with cheap alternatives such as athletics, tiddlywinks and repeats of cooking and antiques programmes.

Talking of sport, football deals seem equally iffy, given the transfer market and the obscene wages paid to so called 'star' players.

I recall a poker faced Alex Ferguson saying this was down to supply and demand.

We demand and they supply at enormous cost. Yes Sir Alex you have come a long way since your Dunfermline days. I doff my cap and touch my forelock to you. However, wouldn't it be refreshing if we the public boycotted the telly for a whole year.

I am sure that would reduce prices substantially. Of course like 'quitting' Buckfast addicts it will never actually happen.

JAMES MARTIN,

Cowdenbeath.