Just before budget day, the BBC were cheering on the massive profits Tesco announced. My contention was that this rather unusual BBC approval for vast corporate profits was aimed at creating good mood music as in “green shoots of recovery” ahead of Darling’s dismal Budget. Things reverted to form this morning however and I invite you to listen to the sneering tone Angus Stickler adopts when interviewing the Pfizer representative at the start of this item. The disgust for “profits” drips off his lips.
BIG FOOD GOOD, BIG PHARMA BAD?
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That really is a sneer. An open sneer. Beats me why people always respond by going on the defensive. Why didn’t the Pfizer representative simply ask the sneerer if he himself “works” for free or for money? And for how much?
Quite appart from the fact that the profits are used to boost our pensions. Unfortunately it is not enough profit that is hurting our pensions so badly.
I agree. It was full of contempt. What the hell is wrong with profit.
Even African witch doctors don’t work pro-bono.
If Pfizer, can come up with a cure, help the diabled, create new jobs( therefore taxable income), plus profit which can be invested in other new cures, isn’t that a good thing?
The BBC seem to think anybody who doesn’t work for them, or Gordon, or Obama is evil.
Pfizer manufacture Viagra. Viagra equals male sexual enjoyment…
A VERY bad thing in the post feminist world of Al Beeb.
Big Pharma profits & salaries only arise, of course, from successful production.
Much easier for the BBC’s favoured Fake Charities which pay salaries for people to lobby government for taxpayer money to pay salaries.