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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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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No, the fuss is manufactured. Pay rates for journalists, whether cutting edge or not (and she’s not) are dire these days. Only stars earn big money. She isn’t a star. Full stop.
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Why are you so keen to make this about "stars" (and we can debate the tautological case of Sopel if you want), when Gracie herself was assured when she took the job that the *post* was equivalent. Why do you think you know more about the job than her or those who created it?
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Mate, I can’t spend all day debating this with you. I’ve got stuff to do. In summary, I just don’t care what some highly paid woman or man at the BBC is complaining about. Have a nice weekend x
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