I’m confused. Two male BBC presenters have a PRIVATE conversation about their own salaries & are pilloried. A female BBC presenter PUBLICLY complains about her salary & accuses the BBC of criminality & she is hailed as a heroine. The world has gone mad.
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International editor job, which requires fluency in a rare language for someone with her other skills and experience, as working in extremely complex conditions. She was also, as she notes, assured when she took the job that it was at pay parity with Sopel and others.
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You'll note, too, that the BBC don't agree with you that US and ME editor jobs are senior to China, because they explicitly told Carrie that they weren't when they offered her the job.
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The BBC has to say many things to play along with the madness. No one sane working in the media thinks those are comparable jobs.
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So, the BBC managers who define the job told Carrie, who they hired for the job, that they were comparable, but you, an outsider with a weird axe to grind, has decided they're not? Why should I believe you over her and the people who wrote the job description?
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And I don't even understand your lack of empathy here, gender politics aside. How would you feel if you took a job after having been explicitly assured you were being paid the same as others, only to then find out you'd been lied to? You'd not be cross?
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I have no axe to grind here at all. I’m sure Carrie Gracie is a total pro. But she is not a star and the China Editor job is not remotely comparable with N America editor. I think this is a manufactured story.
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She's not a "star". She's a professional journalist working at the cutting edge of her profession, with a skill set almost no-one else in her profession possesses. She was offered a job under false pretences, and is justifiably furious. That's not "manufactured".
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And given just how often stories about the BBC *are* "manufactured", not least by publications which frequently employ you, I have to wonder why it's this incident that earns your condemnation.
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