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Shan Shui Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Omid Scobie
Omid Scobie@scobie·
The continued fascination some people have with my first job is bizarre. I worked at Heat magazine for 11 months after university (20 years ago!) and I quickly grew to hate it. My immediate boss there—now a columnist at a newspaper—would call me Paki as a "joke", repeatedly used racist slurs about others (e.g. calling TV personality June Sarpong, "C**n Sarpong", or referring to Alison Hammond on Big Brother as "that Black"), curated a pinboard of "funny" photos of disabled adults and children above their desk titled "Disabled Corner", and not one person there, including the publisher's HR department, gave a damn. "That's just [their] humour," I was told by one superior at the time. It was a toxic workplace that, even many years after I left, was still getting pulled into employment tribunal cases for racism. Despite people's intentions, I'm not ashamed of that job. At 21-years-old, it was a blast covering red carpets every day and doing celebrity interviews. It just says a lot about certain sections of this industry that outlets would rather (repeatedly) put energy into trying to define someone by a job from two decades ago instead of focusing on the bigger, more newsworthy issues that have long plagued publishers and newsrooms such as that place.
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caroline slocock
caroline slocock@carolineslocock·
Looking forward to taking part in @TimesRadio’s breakfast show tomorrow, Sunday morning, at 9.10am, reviewing the news.
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Ian Dunt
Ian Dunt@IanDunt·
Nicola Sturgeon was the best political leader of her generation, a grown-up who behaved thoughtfully when all around her lost their minds. She deserves to be celebrated by friend and foe alike. inews.co.uk/opinion/im-a-c…
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sarah murphy
sarah murphy@13sarahmurphy·
In most normal worlds, if you’ve made an absolute holy show of yourself, you go quietly off and hope no one ever mentions you again. But it seems if you’re an ex Tory PM, you resurface almost immediately and strut about as if people want to hear from you again. We really don’t.
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