Newsnight propagandises interview with working single mum

[weepiper]

Is there a 'why the BBC is shit/going down the pan' type thread somewhere? I have a memory there is but I couldn't find one, mods can move if there's a better place

http://www.change.org/petitions/bbc...yBkO&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert

This young woman was approached by her manager at work at Tower Hamlets Council to ask if she wanted to be interviewed for Newsnight as a young single mum who needs Housing Benefit. She's been working since she was 16 and has a three year old child. She wasn't expecting them to selectively trim any reference to her working out of the interview when they aired it and imply that she is an unemployed benefit scrounger who should just move back in with her mum. Total misrepresentation. And Boris claims the BBC has a left-wing bias?

 

[frogwoman]

state broadcaster

 

[articul8]

There is a thread on this already somewhere

 

[articul8]

Sorry not a thread - end of BBC Narrative on the 70s thread in this forum

 

[weepiper]

Sorry not a thread - end of BBC Narrative on the 70s thread in this forum

That'll be why I couldn't find anything then

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The BBC seems to have forgotten the 'impartiality' clause in its charter.

Are they under pressure from government, or trying to suck up to the government in the hope of not being abolished / sold to Murdoch?

 

[ska invita]

Thing on it here too... picks up on who is Allegra Stratton

http://www.leninology.com/2012/05/what-bbc-newsnight-did-to-shanene.html

can anyone be bothered to check out her bylines for the guardian?

 

[peterkro]

Don't ever collude with the media they have their own agenda and don't give a fuck about you as a person in spite of the lies they may tell you.If you have an ironclad contract to be able to have editorial oversight maybe.

 

[xes]

they are shit, they've also just been busted "accidentally" using pictures of mass bodies from 2003 Iraq, in the ongoing killings/protests in Syria. (think it was Syria) The BBC = 100% pure propaganda. It's high time people stopped watching/listening to it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Fucking hell.

 

[frogwoman]

what an absolute disgrace.

 

[OneStrike]

Yep, the girl was really stitched up. She was tweeting to her 50odd followers about how she had been misrepresented after it went out, i'm pleased that she is getting some backing.

 

[purenarcotic]

Despicable. Utterly despicable.

 

[danny la rouge]

Media Lens is talking about this, too.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Is there a 'why the BBC is shit/going down the pan' type thread somewhere? I have a memory there is but I couldn't find one, mods can move if there's a better place

http://www.change.org/petitions/bbc...yBkO&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert

This young woman was approached by her manager at work at Tower Hamlets Council to ask if she wanted to be interviewed for Newsnight as a young single mum who needs Housing Benefit. She's been working since she was 16 and has a three year old child. She wasn't expecting them to selectively trim any reference to her working out of the interview when they aired it and imply that she is an unemployed benefit scrounger who should just move back in with her mum. Total misrepresentation. And Boris claims the BBC has a left-wing bias?

fucking hell, brass eye

"Why don't you live at home with your mum?"

"I have a daughter and she only has a two bedroomed flat"

"So you could live at home with your mum but you choose not to?"

"Er, well, I suppose it is a choice"

"Can't you go around somebody's house and clean in up? And then ask for money afterwards?"

 

[frogwoman]

Thing on it here too... picks up on who is Allegra Stratton

http://www.leninology.com/2012/05/what-bbc-newsnight-did-to-shanene.html

can anyone be bothered to check out her bylines for the guardian?

Fucking guardian.

 

[weepiper]

fucking hell, brass eye

"Why don't you live at home with your mum?"

"I have a daughter and she only has a two bedroomed flat"

"So you could live at home with your mum but you choose not to?"

"Er, well, I suppose it is a choice"

"Can't you go around somebody's house and clean in up? And then ask for money afterwards?"

Pity they didn't pick someone a little more assertive to interview like that really. Actually I expect that was deliberate. I'd have given them short fucking shrift

 

[frogwoman]

Asking somebody if they should have had a child ffs.

 

[JimW]

they are shit, they've also just been busted "accidentally" using pictures of mass bodies from 2003 Iraq, in the ongoing killings/protests in Syria. (think it was Syria) The BBC = 100% pure propaganda. It's high time people stopped watching/listening to it.

Remember the Nick Robinson edit trying to make the wildcat strikers look like racists a couple of years back? I do.

 

[frogwoman]

this is one of the reasons i don't watch tv news and especially not the bbc any more. i wonder what the NUJ has to say about this? Has anyone contacted them?

 

[maldwyn]

I remember watching that item and thinking Allegra Stratton was being unnecessary aggressive in her interview, glad to hear other people felt the same.

 

[ska invita]

I remember watching that item and thinking Allegra Stratton was being unnecessary aggressive in her interview, glad to hear other people felt the same.

i remember it as being delivered in a gentle, condescending way - what was being asked was the aggression IYNWIM

 

[weepiper]

i remember it as being delivered in a gentle, condescending way - what was being asked was the aggression IYNWIM

That Lenin's Tomb article above expresses it just right - 'you don't get to decide if you're respectable, young working class single mum, WE get to do that'. Respectability is conferred on from above.

 

[articul8]

this is one of the reasons i don't watch tv news and especially not the bbc any more. i wonder what the NUJ has to say about this? Has anyone contacted them?

She might be NUJ or BECTU (but probably isn't - bet she's the sort that scabs when they strike).

 

[nefarious]

Reminds me of the joke where there is a banker, a daily mail reader, someone on benefits and 10 pieces of cake. The banker swipes 9 of the pieces and nudges the daily mail reader pointing at the person on benefits and says 'look out, he's trying to steal your cake'

 

[elbows]

Time to dust off twitter and share my thoughts on this, if I can compose myself. Disgusting.

Her account:

@BBCAllegra

 

[elbows]

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/b...snight-humilated-single-mother-shanene-thorpe

 

[where to]

disgusting.

 

[goldenecitrone]

We both know people who are living with their parents who don't have a job.

That's the deliberately misleading line Stratton puts in to make viewers believe Shanene was also unemployed. She's sealed her reputation as a deceitful, lying twat. That's pretty vile stuff.

 

[temper_tantrum]

The NUJ are busy going bankrupt, I'm afraid.