Our money is spent spreading fake news

TWO Oxfam workers involved in an operation in Haiti paid for the “company” of two prostitutes whilst on time off in the evening with their own money, the management were alerted to the goings on and clearly as this is not the sort of behaviour expected of Oxfam employees, they were fired. Not much of a story there. For the BBC, a non-story is not an issue; listening to the BBC news this weekend, they have managed to stir the story up into a frenzy and I listened to a BBC correspondent describe the incident as a “Caligula” style orgy paid for by public money which is clearly totally untrue and is fake news.

Last week the Beeb reported on the gender pay gap at Tesco’s when in fact the truth is that the “shop floor” workers think that they should be paid the same as the people who work in the warehouses, both men and women work in both posts and as you would expect, a male cashier is paid exactly the same as a female cashier and a male warehouse worker is paid exactly the same as a female warehouse worker. Generally, men work in the warehouse and women prefer the warmer and less physically demanding work inside the store – generally. The issue has nothing to do with gender whatsoever, just the type of work you fancy and both posts are open to both male and female staff, but the Beeb cannot resist but to “fake it up”.

This waste of public money follows fast on the heels of the “Presidents Club” fundraising event where the BBC reported that the girls who were “abused” were just simply trying to earn a bit of money, when even my dog knows that the work is voluntary, the BBC went on to exaggerate just about every detail of what went on.

I am not condoning any particular behaviour of persons involved in these incidents, whatever the truth may actually be, but you can virtually follow a trail of fake news produced by the “Beeb” every week, yes, they do not always generate the rubbish but they are happy to repeat it without any concern for establishing facts first, it almost as if they are in some sort of ratings war similar to the movie “The Anchorman”. “Why tell the people what they need to hear when you can tell them what they want to hear”?

I find it outrageous that taxpayer money is spent spreading fake news, the whole point of a lavish, publiclyfunded broadcaster is that they do not have to concern themselves with ratings, purely to concentrate on clear, accurate and reliable reporting of news events in a totally unbiased manner, and if we can’t have that, why should we be forced to pay for something as “cruddy” as commercial channels? John Dimbylow

Hay On Wye