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I has a new job!
For the next three months, anyway. I will be helping shape the views of middle England on the Jeremy Vine programme on Radio Two.
Most importantly, it means that I will have all weekends and evenings free, and will be able to attend more Urban events. Hurrah!
I hope the BBC will identify this twerp and ram home the message that their tellytax funded role is to educate, entertain and inform, not to “shape the views of middle England” or anyone else.
Another fine testament to the quality of BBC recruitment and their successful candidates.
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Here’s a weird couple of posts I spotted in answer to that first one.
I can’t think of a nicer person to have shaping my views.
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I’d have whatever views Jeremy Vine wanted me to have.
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And the killer, from the person posting that they’ve gotten the job in the first place:
Would you like a signed photo of the lovely Jezza?
(He’s married, btw, to someone I did my journalism diploma with.)
If this Urban75 individual believes he is going to shape the views of ‘Middle England’, he will have a job on his hands.
At least according to the BBC, anyway:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2006/05_may/big_britain.shtml
“The contrast between the perspectives of Big Britain and Middle England could not be greater. Where Middle England is perceived to be conservative and opinionated, Big Britain is open-minded.
“Where the former group is seen as being resistant to change, the latter is exploring the alternatives. And while Middle Englanders are thought to follow the herd, Big Britons are more determined to take steps to make life better for themselves, forever in search of new opportunities.”
If you own an MP3 player, you are likely to be a Big Briton, apparently.
Are you a Big Briton? Or a petty-minded backwoodsman?
Read it all. It’s magnificent.
I prefer the term “squatterati” for the denizens of U75.
“Where Middle England is perceived to be conservative and opinionated, Big Britain is open-minded.”
Usual BBC shorthand for “if you live in the Shires you must be some sort of Fox Hunting, retard, racist Tory, but if you live in the happening, multicultural, right-on vibrant North London, hey, you’re one of us!!”
sproggett, as the original Backwoodsman, I resemble that remark !
However, it is simply not acceptable fot the bbc to have an agenda, or rather a number of agenda, that they try and foist onto the public. That is why it is increasingly accepted that the bbc cannot be allowed to contibue in its current format.
Clearly he has been on his Common Purpose course as have any number of Beeb employees.
part of their remit and I can’t quote exactly but it goes something like this.
“To coerce or engineer the population into thinking the right way”.
What happens if we fail to parrot these views? Is that deemed counter-revolutionary? Do we get whisked away in the night and sent to work in a gulag, never to return?
Gibby,
You know how it goes. ‘Re-education’.
Good god — that Big Britain write-up is the most utterly foul, smug and repulsively self-congratulatory thing I have ever read in my life. It disgusts even me — and mind you, I WRITE SH*T LIKE THIS FOR A LIVING. What a telling mirror into the shallow, vain, smirking soul of the BBC.