ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I'm pretty sure the BBC have to release the number of complaints they received if they are asked.
There's a programme on this week sometime (maybe tonight??) on ITV on this subject.The story should be about how low wages are, and how high housing costs and childcare are. I also work for a council, and if I worked full time my wage would be 3k less than the cost of rent+childcare.
Sorry, you're suggesting that despite lazy research, poor interview preparation, editorialising, misrepresenting a member of the public through editing and voiceover etc expensively-educated cross-media political editor Allegra Stratton might in fact be the victim here?
(((Allegra)))
exactly what you'd expect from a Tory historianTristam Hunt however, thinks there are things to learn on welfare from the periods...
I mean, I've no doubt they are cynical fucks who would manipulate the interview & assume they would get away with it, but surely in the whole of London they could have found a single mum on Housing Benefit who wasn't working.
Stitched up was just a bad way of describing it.
I wonder how many of those complained to the BBC?Well, looks like the online petition has broken the 25k mark for signatories
since when was it TH's job to do the legwork for smug, lazy patronising journalistic who substitute proper newshoundery for their own preconceptions?I've been wondering if it wasn't Allegra / Newsnight that got stitched up a bit in the first place...
As in: researcher phones up Tower Hamlets council to find them a "single mum on housing benefit", assuming that would automatically mean workshy dolescum. Council finds them a "single mum on housing benefit" which is just what they asked for, but when they turn up for the interview she turns out to be working full time & there isn't time to find anyone else so they have to wing the interview.
IF that's what happened (pure speculation), it would be their own stupid fault for being so clueless.
I've done a handful of interviews with different BBC radio programmes over the years, I guess because of my job and that I'm easy to find on Google. I'm the first one who pops up. They never give you any warning, they will call and they'll give you like an hours notice for radio.Only a 'victim' (not my word) of her own stupidity (or that of the researcher or whoever found the interviewee for her). Lazy research & poor interview preparation would cover the scenario I described, the rest we know she's done.
I was once interviewed for Newsnight (well Newsnicht - the Scottish opt out at the end). I was treated very well, they didn't stitch me up at all. The interviewer was a very nice man whose name escapes me for now. Someone on here dared me to see how often I could bring Chomsky into it. I got a few in, but they only used one.I've done a handful of interviews with different BBC radio programmes over the years, I guess because of my job and that I'm easy to find on Google. I'm the first one who pops up. They never give you any warning, they will call and they'll give you like an hours notice for radio.
I've also been asked to be interviewed on TV, but it's always been too short notice, like, 'in a couple of hours' sort of thing.
The researchers are so last minute with finding people, it's unbelievable. They always have an agenda and if you don't fit it, they do bend you to fit.
So I agree, hurried researcher needed to find someone at short notice but couldn't, so with Shanene they made do. Shit isn't it?
Tristam Hunt however, thinks there are things to learn on welfare from the periods...
But I've also been interviewed for newspapers, and badly misquoted. Once I was even quoted without having been interviewed! It wasn't anything I wouldn't have said if I'd been asked, but I wasn't. They'd made it up.
No.I trust you sued them and won squillions.
No.
Although I should have sued Radio Clyde, who billed me as a Green Party representative once!