O’Reilly last week took the unprecedented step of suing the corporation for age and sex discrimination. She says ageism at the BBC is “endemic”. “We have almost come to accept it as the norm, that if you are a woman you have to be a size 8 and have unlined skin. I hoped to be judged on my work as a journalist and broadcaster, not on the way I look.
Of course, this isn’t the first time the BBC has been accused of ageism. In 2007, there was a row when the corporation dropped newsreader Moira Stuart, who was in her late 50s; that same year, the broadcaster Anna Ford asked, “How many presenters do you know on television who are over the age of 60? They’re catered for on Radio 4, but they are not catered for on screen.”
Got to laugh…no time lost by the Left attacking the Mail as it focuses on the issue of the day…whose legs are better…May’s or Sturgeon’s? Nothing new there though…if it weren’t for the Mail what would left-wing ‘journalists’ do all day…another pop at the Mail’s frontpage recently…All 27 things wrong with today’s Daily Mail front cover…complete rubbish and bizarrely attacking the Mail for covering a story that the Left are peddling themselves...’Google…the terrorists’ friend’….except that day when the Mail intervened…Google became…
Google – the greatest source of information in the history of human civilisation – is not a friend to terrorists; it is a friend to teachers, doctors, students, journalists, and teenage girls who aren’t quite sure how to put a tampon in for the first time
However in the same New Statesman issue we have an attack on Google for their failure to tackle extremism….telling us...’what needs to happen is a realisation that what happens when the rockets come down is very much the department of the world’s communication companies.’….
‘…committee chair Yvette Cooper has found a staggering amount of hate speech being circulated freely on the largest and most profitable social media platform. Seperately, an ongoing investigation by the Times has uncovered how advertising revenue from Google and YouTube makes its way straight into the coffers of extremist groups, ranging from Islamist extremists to white supremacists and anti-Semites.
Corbyn has the time to tweet today [presumably when not reading his BBC briefing on its latest research for PMQs]…
…and the BBC runs the story prominently on the frontpage…
Daily Mail urges ‘legs-it’ critics to ‘get a life’
First it’s fairly clear they both dressed to impress, it’s power dressing and body language used to project a message about them…so fair game to comment on that.
Second male politicians get it in the neck all the time…
The BBC was very interested in Trump’s hands…
The BBC is obsessed with Trump’s hands..
A history of Donald Trump, his ‘tiny’ fingers – and gold Sharpies
Donald Trump has some stand-out physical features. He’s also got gold pens, apparently. More on that shortly.
First there’s that mane of curiously-coloured hair.
The expressive mouth that seems to have a life of its own.
But please, take a second to consider his hands.
The blondish bombshell has defended the size of his digits after a particularly strange bit of name calling.
US election 2016: What is the big deal about Trump’s hands?
We have all heard endless jokes about his hair and tan, but what is the big deal now about Donald Trump’s hands?
This is said to be a sore point for the billionaire, and it was revived this week by rival Republican candidate Marco Rubio, who mocked his adversary’s “small hands”.
And the Mirror was obsessed with dresses…..
Good Morning Britain fashion: Susanna Reid’s lady in red vs true blue Charlotte Hawkins – vote now
But when Reid hid her legs behind a desk the viewers complained…
Susanna Reid gave the launch of Good Morning Britain a leg up when she answered the prayers of viewers who complained that the stars of the show were hidden behind a desk.
After the ITV programme began at 6am, numerous people began moaning that Susanna and her co-hosts were spending too much time half-obscured by the huge table.
But she put all that right when she emerged from the desk, revealing her shapely legs that have helped her win an army of male fans.
Don’t remember Corbyn back in 2014 complaining about that, but then he was a nobody then, hmmm…what’s changed?
Clearly Jezza is too shy to ask for a flashback, so…
Two sexy BBC girlies – Laura and Yvette
Corbyn will be shocked I tell you. Boy Owen might reconsider
Hardly . Now the ladies on Rt are something else . Especially the one who always manages to reduce the US State Department guy to some confusion.
GWF
The boy Owen would need some Balls to take on Yvette…
I like the cigarette in Laura’s right hand.
Thought the Beeb was strictly non smoking.
GWF
Laura is not sexy she is a treacherous…C.. well her second name alludes to it!
I saw Anna Ford on tv last night and I must confess she looked rather to old to be on tv, what passed for her ‘interesting’ looks decades ago is now quite simply old and wrinkly and puts me off my concentration.
My preference now is for fox news and Sean Spicer with the added bonus of several sets of fabulous female legs around a table. Try watching Fox news then flipping over to Kay Burley, no contest.
Enjoy the legs while you can,once Islam takes over they will all be covered up.
And Boris could do with a sports bra.
GWF agree with your comments about Laura Kuzzy to full of self importance often rambling on when those listening have long forgotten what she was on about. In view there are too many women on show throughout the BBC-why the H can’t we have a man reporting on Rugby Football and talking to the players. When is Cabbie Logan going to retire? Why the H do we have a Muslim supposedly controlling religious progs-the BBC would it appear support an Islamic state in the UK, not a Christian one-we are and have been fuelling up real trouble in respect to our overly consideration for Islam. As you say Wild Bill soon with an all Islamic BBC all legs will be covered up even the chair legs.
BBBC Radio Scotland in the lunchtime news programme after the Mail published that front page went into fits of semi hysteria and that was even though they weren’t certain if that front page had even appeared on the Scottish edition of the Mail.
They had three women, can’t recall who, on to discuss this disgraceful attack on the whole of civilisation as we know it. They went on and on about it for around 15 minutes or so as if it was the most shocking issue in the whole world at the time.
Of course their main moan was about how shockingly sexist the Mail was being and that nothing like it would ever have appeared if it had been about two male political leaders.
Does anybody else recall the comments when the pictures appeared of Trump and Obama meeting in the White House? Weren’t there lots of comments and mocking about Man Spreading as a result of how they were sitting? Strangely enough, and I can’t think why, but there was not even the hint of suggestion by the bBBC about the comments being sexist let alone a ridiculous overreaction about something which was, after all, just as trivial as the Legs-it story is.