BBC Wrongly Portray Working Mother as Benefit Scrounger!

[teaboy2]

http://www.change.org/petitions/bbcn...ve-an-apology#

Hi all,

I am writing to ask you to publicly support a deman for a public apology by the BBC to Shanene Thorpe -- a proud working mum who, in good faith, agreed to be interviewed by the BBC Newsnight team last week.

After the interview was aired on Wednesday, Shanene was left feeling upset and humiliated by the way she had been portrayed )after the interview was edited to deliberatly show her in the wrong light). Having thought she had an opportunity to tell her story -- that of a hard working, independent young woman bringing up a small daughter -- she was shocked to find herself presented as unemployed and a 'scrounger'.

I urge you to make a swift and public apology for the distress caused to Shanene and her family.

Sincerely,

[Celestine]

Re: BBC Wrongly Portray Working Mother as Benefit Scrounger!

Signed. What a shabby bit of lazy 'journalism'. Poor girl.

[teaboy2]

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Agreed, and she was clearly mislead into doing the interview only to then be libelled and shown as result of editing and the design of the questions to falsely look like a benefit scrounger. When really shes proud to be a WORKING single mother, who like a majority of working families gets help with rent. But the BBC were questioning her right to have a place of her own with her child, basically implying, it would be better and less costly for the country if she did. But how would that be in her and her childs best interest? It wouldn't be, and no one has the right to say you can not have a home of your own, you will stay with your parents (her parents will be wanting peace and quite when they retire, not screaming babies 24/7!
I wounder if the reporter actually practice what she was preaching, e.g. when she had a kid did she stay at her parents instead of have her own place, just because having her own place would have ment a little bit of help going her way for rent, i doubt it as she clearly a stuck up bitch that is out of touch with the rest of the country, just like the politicians (though atleast clegg has finally admitted it lol) - Below is a copy of what was sent out by email from shanene herself.

Last week, I got a call from my manager at work asking if I'd be happy to be interviewed by Newsnight about working as a young single parent.
Of course I'd be happy to do that, being a working mum is something I'm proud of but I didn't expect to be personally scrutinised.
So I was devastated to see the interview that went to air on BBC2 on Wednesday that had been edited to make it look like I was an unemployed scrounger, questioned why I didn't live with my parents and made no mention of my job with Tower Hamlets Council.
I've worked since I was 16 and I only get help towards my rent because it is so high. The way that the programme has portrayed me is totally unfair so I've started a campaign on Change.org asking Newsnight to tell me why they felt it was OK to humiliate me in this way and publicly apologise for it.
Please click here to watch the interview and add your support.
In the full interview, the reporter even asked me if I thought it was right to have had my daughter. I couldn't believe the question. I am proud of being a working mum. I do my very best, and these questions were really offensive.
Please join me in calling for a public apology from Newsnight and ensuring that others aren't inaccurately represented.
Thanks,
Shanene Thorpe

[shell]

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Signed.

[bluebottle]

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Signed also. I had an email from Change.org in my inbox.

[Monzter]

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Signed it. Awful - as a working single mum it strikes a chord.

[loxy]

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Signed, Shameful behaviour.

[teaboy2]

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Hi everyone

Thanks for signing the petition.

Just to update, below is a copy of an email i received via change.org - Those that signed have likely also recieved it. But it goes to show just how SICK abd PATHETIC the people are at the BBC (renamed British bullcrapping):

I got an unexpected call at work yesterday -- from Newsnight Editor, Peter Rippon. (So they do know I've got a job after all!)

He congratulated me on the petition, and apologised "if I'd been misrepresented" on the show. But they refused to accept responsibility and even tried to blame my employer.

The BBC are finally feeling the pressure to do the right thing. But this phone call isn't enough, Newsnight didn't just insult me, they insulted every viewer and working single mums all over the country. Their apology should be as public as my humiliation.

Please help me get to 30,000 signatures by sharing the petition with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or via email, to show the BBC how many people want them to apologise.

I deserve a public apology, and a full explanation as to how this was allowed to happen. I'm ready to meet the team behind the show in person -- so I can tell them my side of the story and make sure this doesn't happen to anybody else.
Please help me by sharing the petition with your friends - if everyone gets just 1 person to sign, the pressure on the BBC will be too great for them to ignore.

Your support really counts.

Thank you,

Shanene

PS If you're on Twitter, please send a tweet during Newsnight (tonight at 10.30pm) - some examples are below:
Will @BBCnewsnight apologise tonight to working mum Shanene for misrepresented interview? #newsnight

.@BBCnewsnight Publicly apologise for misrepresenting working mum Shanene last week: #newsnight

Why won’t @bbcnewsnight publicly apologise for misrepresenting @nenes_life last week? cc: @BBCAllegra #newsnight

So not only is insulting her for being a single mother that drags herself to work each day whilst still looking after the full parental responsabilities and needs of a child, not enough for the BBC. But they now see fit to blame her Employer - Why is that MR BBC. is it because they took on a proud, honest, and hard working single mother? Which by the way is perfectly legal! BBC should question those in chasrge of the miilions of pounds of license money spent on moving from london to manchester. In fact, is it fair in law that the taxpayer pays a license for a TV even if they do not watch BBC Channels?! Time for High horse kicking arse case if you ask me!

P.S i won't be paying my license fee next year in dispute of the shameful act via the bbc. My money can be better spent by Unichef and oxfam, for children that themselves have to work (up to 15hr shifts in india and elsewhere - Bet hes never worked a shift that long in his life!), where the bbc license money on an annual basis would have solved such problems!

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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signed.

[Bill-K]

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Signed.

I would also consider signing a petition insisting that Allegra Stratton either gets herself a 'proper job' - or learns to do the one that she has with more sincerity and respect for the subjects of her 'work,' and for the TV-Licence-paying public whom she clearly and ineptly tries to mislead. Whatever job she thinks she is doing is NOT journalism - and she's clearly NOT a journalist.

Judging by her attitude and clear lack of 'people-skills,' I would suggest she finds a more productive career in local government or perhaps 'traffic management,' instead of sponging off of us licence payers by kidding the BBC she is able to present the truth to those among us who are stupid enough to look to the BBC for such a rare commodity.

In summary - a waste of space, and a waste of our money. In TOTAL contrast to Shanene Thorpe, who was the subject of her 'kangaroo interview.'

[TUTTSI]

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This is appauling, I have signed this petition TB, and feel that she should be financially compensated for the way she was treated and agravation that she endured plus a public apology from the BBC.

[Shadowcat]

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Signed. Said they should sack the producers and interviewer and reminded them who pays their over inflated salaries. BBC are better than this usually.

[labman]

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Signed - apologies for it taking so long, as you know I've been away from LB for a few weeks.

[Magrew]

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Signed, I have too often been on the wrong side of manipulative journalism that is why I believe so little that I read or see unless I can be certain of the facts. Honour is very thin on the ground these days.