@DJCliffy 348142 wrote:
Also the media are a bunch of cunts as well, They are very good at ruining peoples lives.
I worked in the TV industry for a few years (as an engineer) and in the late 90s/early 2000s wanted to move into production but in production they discriminate against heterosexual young males and I couldn’t play the race card because I was the “wrong sort of Asian”! -The BBC actually said this to me!
They wanted Pakistanis or Indians, and even then you end up having to do work experience on the Bhangra and Bollywood type shows (there is a Pakistani dude called Sarfraz Manzoor from round your way who did join the BBC and said he was stuck on Asian Network for years when he wanted to go to Radio 1…)
plus once you get there there are a fuckload of people who will stitch you up and they often claim to be your best friends, its like all the young celebs what get busted for drugs are dobbed in by people they know rather than being caught by the OB.
the whole industry is fucked anyway because of these reality shows and x-factor etc. there is now no proper career path into a decent paying media job, lots of overpaid old farts keep all the good work whilst many of the presenters on cable channels have to still have second day jobs and other staff are expected to work for nothing because “the media is fun”
a young girl I know has turned down her uni place to study documentary filming in Wales at one of the UK’s best unis because she and her mum can’t afford £20 000 of debt with no guarantee of work – 10-15 years ago she could have maybe got a job with HTV or Anglia in the news room or the Rapture! “yoof” channel what was run from Anglia back then but ITV are now making fuckloads of people redundant..
