I'd talk about football or f*** up Top Gear for a lot less !
Graham Norton and David Dimbleby, for instance, are paid through a production company, so they probably 'earn' a lot more than the given figure !
Far from being a government stooge, I think that the BBC has been set up up for this, by forcing them to publish pay figures, knowing that it would cause this kind of furore. Successive governments, particularly of the blue persuasion, have had it in the BBC, and done everything in its power to undermine the Corporation.
I completely accept that this is public money, and we h