Good grief. In the light of #LaurenceFox's comments on #GBNews, #Sky #News decided to do a piece on the #GenderPayGap. They had a man and woman on to argue about it.
It came out, live on air, that he was being paid and she wasn't. Sky apologised and offered her £75, the standard fee for such an appearance. Then they offered to increase it to £200, the same as they'd paid him.
https://www.tiktok.com/@novaramedia/video/7284205229975833888?_t=8g96Nmcpz2f&_r=1
ETA: @MichaelPorter linked to a longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_nT-yQZZcI
@RPBook Direct quote: “You can’t write this stuff.”
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It does not get better than that!
@RPBook I absolutely love her infectious joyous energy saying 'are you getting paid for this?', because really, that's a lethal blow, AND by its content AND by the way it is being delivered. Had she said it angrily, we would have seen an entirely different media response ("typical angry black woman with lesbian tendencies, proves our point etc... deflect & redirect).
@sheislaurence I hadn't thought of that, but you're right.
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Maybe they were just trying to er ironic.
@the5thColumnist it was certainly ironic, but I doubt that the irony was deliberate.
@RPBook Amazing. Irony is dead. This is a longer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_nT-yQZZcI
@MichaelPorter thank you. I've edited my toot to add that link.
@MichaelPorter @RPBook This is amazing.
@RPBook yikes. Awkward sky
@RPBook @MichaelPorter Sky there, quickly running out of feet to shoot themselves in.
@RPBook @MichaelPorter oh the bitter irony. Fuck that and fuck them.
@RPBook @MichaelPorter You just couldn't make it up.
@RPBook @MichaelPorter that is... so unreal!
@RPBook @MichaelPorter That is, at the same time, the stupidest and the funniest story about #skynews ever. I mean, WTAF were they thinking?!
@MichaelPorter @bytebro I suspect they didn't think, to be honest.
@RPBook @MichaelPorter thank you for sharing this! seems like we should know the names Moya Lothian-McLean and Emma Dabiri! They’re both so eloquent and insightful which is such a contrast to the bumbling right wing grifter guy on the show.