BBC and its continued handling of the Jimmy Savile affair.plus the South Yorkshire Police raid on Cliff Richard’s home

Two stories about the BBC this week underline how morally bankrupt the Corporation is becoming in its day-to-day operations and attitudes.
Its default position – from new Trustee chairman Rona Fairhead downwards – now appears to be to champion whatever it does, no matter how reprehensible and indefensible.

This underlines yet again that the BBC Trustees – though supposed to guardians of the interests of licence-fee payers – in reality are little more than lackeys of the senior management team.

Story One relates to the continued handling of the Jimmy Savile affair.  It became clear last month here in this TCW item that Fairhead had already ‘gone native’ – and her  approach to her new role was going to be to defend existing practices and approaches in the BBC rather than to attempt reform.

The Prolific North Top 50 Integrated Agencies 2014

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Ranking Company Name North of England office locations Staff Count 2014 Selection of clients 2014
1 McCanns Manchester Prestbury 370 Aldi, American Airlines, Shire, npower, JD
Williams, Nestlé, CrossCountry Trains
2 WRG Manchester 102 HSBC, AstraZeneca, Peel Ports, HP, Shell
3 Home Leeds 151 ASDA, B&Q, Bayer, Bonmarché, Bupa, Carphone Warehouse, The Co-operative, Freeman Grattan Holdings, Hallmark, Gala Interactive, JD Williams Group, John Lewis, La Redoute, Mira, Waitrose

Video : Smooth transfer of large CAD Data / Honda & NTT Communications Corporation


NTT Com's Enterprise Cloud solution for Honda


Honda Motor Company has deployed NTT’s private cloud platform in a bid to reduce annual operating costs and strengthen communication between the company’s supplier network.

What you will get from this video is that Honda’s goal is to provide customers with an overwhelming sense of joy and inspiration through their products. That is why they are breaking through in aviation as well as robotics to name a few. To make this successful though digital transfer is key and with the help of NTT Communications as their cloud platform they can get that done.

The auto manufacturer has been using NTT’s enterprise cloud services in Japan and Singapore since last year to support collaboration throughout the company’s supply chain.

Video : Kmart’s ‘Jingle Bellies’ Christmas ad - a fat load of fun - or is it?


Mashable: Kmart’s ‘Jingle Bellies’ ad is a fat load of fun

“Santa’s belly’s got nothing on Kmart’s Joe Boxer men.

In its new holiday ad for its branded boxer collection, Kmart employs a group shirtless, pajama-clad men to use their bellies (that shake like bowls full of jelly) as the percussion accompaniment to “Jingle Bells.” The ad is appropriately named “Jingle Bellies.”

The 55-second ad created an online maelstrom yesterday and today when it was aired on national TV.

The commercial, dubbed "Show Your Joe," begins with a wide angle shot of six men, who appear to be dressed in tuxedos, standing behind a curtain while ringing bells. However, a few seconds into the clip the curtain is whisked away, revealing the men's bottoms are clad in Joe Boxer underwear.

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