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This week, the BBC has been thrust into the awkward position of reporting on itself. The story is hardly flattering to the public service broadcaster. Payroll details, which the BBC was forced to disclose as part of its new Royal Charter agreement, showed that only a third of its highest-paid staff are women, that the seven highest earners are all men, and that the highest-paid man makes about four times as much as the best-paid woman.