http://www.bristolnuj.org.uk/2011/10/13/nuj-condemns-outrageous-reader-poll-on-which-presenter-should-lose-job/ Promotion, protection and advice for professionals in Bristol's media industries Wed, 16 May 2012 12:06:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bristolnuj.org.uk/2011/10/13/nuj-condemns-outrageous-reader-poll-on-which-presenter-should-lose-job/comment-page-1/#comment-5635 unemployedhack Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:24:06 +0000 http://www.bristolnuj.org.uk/?p=2143#comment-5635 Using job losses - brought about by savage BBC cuts - for a cheap publicity stunt is a new low for Northcliffe. As one of the 2.5 million unemployed mentioned by the NUJ's GS, I agree that playing with people's potential loss of livelihood is humiliating and contemptuous. Perhaps it's the sort of attitude one could expect from profit-driven Northcliffe ... but we shouldn't accept it. It's the sort of attitude that fails to take in the stark, miserable reality of unemployment and, ultimately, ridicules the unemployed and all workers facing job losses. Using job losses – brought about by savage BBC cuts – for a cheap publicity stunt is a new low for Northcliffe. As one of the 2.5 million unemployed mentioned by the NUJ’s GS, I agree that playing with people’s potential loss of livelihood is humiliating and contemptuous. Perhaps it’s the sort of attitude one could expect from profit-driven Northcliffe … but we shouldn’t accept it. It’s the sort of attitude that fails to take in the stark, miserable reality of unemployment and, ultimately, ridicules the unemployed and all workers facing job losses.

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