Peter Sissons, the veteran newsreader who announced his retirement last month, has launched a withering attack on the BBC - claiming standards have fallen and accusing producers of being too mired in political correctness to do anything about it.Eh..?
It's considered 'politically incorrect' to point out to someone that their work isn't up to standard now? When did that happen?
Writing in The Mail on Sunday today, he says: 'At today's BBC, a complaint I often heard from senior producers was that they dared not reprimand their subordinates for basic journalistic mistakes - such as getting ages, dates, titles and even football scores wrong - it being politically incorrect to risk offending them.'I wonder, does that apply in private industry too, or only in the public teat-suckling environs of the Beeb and other public sector jobs?
If Jenkins is employed to make round widgets, and turns out lots of oval ones instead, are the foremen all huddling over in the corner, wailing 'I just don't know how to tell him!? What should we do?', I wonder?
If so, we've made a bit of a rod for our own backs, then, when teh bestest edumacated generation evah comes into the job market, haven't we?
Still, someone might like to point out to the Beeb managers that if the worst they do is set up Facebook groups and whine about how unfair it all is, they've got nothing to lose by growing a pair and pointing their mistakes out to them, have they?
"it being politically incorrect to risk offending them"
ReplyDeleteI suspect the 'pc' bit refers to a small section of BBC journalists...
If Jenkins is employed to make round widgets, and turns out lots of oval ones instead, are the foremen all huddling over in the corner, wailing 'I just don't know how to tell him!? What should we do?', I wonder?
ReplyDeleteWorked in a Pizza facto9ry here between arriving and getting the job I came for.
Pizza factory. 90% of the production was Cheese and ham. The muslims could not touch it.
So they were standing around talking, sitting in the canteen smoking, or breaking into the other workers lockers all day. (I lost five lots of Baccy, about 100 Marks, and variuouis other things in my time there. ALL on CCTV,so we KNEW who had done it.
The Africans just stood around in groups talking.
And when we complained that 10 pof us were doing 30 peoples work?
"Oh, we can not do anything, they just start screaming racism. It goes to court, the company gets fined, and ordered to give them their job back, complete with any pay they have lost due to being suspended up until the court case."
Welcome to the WONDERFULL world of "P.C".
Any one seen the white rabbit anywhere? He was here before we swapped places.
Von Brandenburg-Preußen.
It's considered 'politically incorrect' to point out to someone that their work isn't up to standard.
ReplyDeleteYes it is, but you would be allowed to declare the work 'inappropiate'
As Mr Hitchens of the Daily Mail points out this is the new catch all politically correct word that describes anything that a trendy leftie has 'issues' with, from Jackies Smith's husband renting porn to the straw dummy speed cop in Norfolk -and anything in between.