Covid: When is a journalist "working"?

We all know how pathetic the local mainstream media is but in three recent episodes they have hit a new low. And an interesting question arises now that many are "working from home" whether they are actually "at work" or not.

Jayne Haynes and George Makin

Last year these left-wing "journalists" objected to something I put on Twitter. They decided to start a Twitter "pile-on" to try and get me suspended or expelled from the site. They encouraged their followers to complain to the site about me - odd behaviour against a fellow journalist lol! This failed. I made the mistake of not making formal complaints at the time.

We needn't concern ourselves with Makin anymore save to say that he was employed under the so-called "Local Government Reporting Service", despite his well-known "hard-left" views. This scheme is funded by the BBC so that WE were paying for his crap output via our collective licence fees!

As this matter came back on my radar recently (more anon) I did complain to the Birmingham Mail - the clickbait effort owned by Reach Plc (aka "Retch") now obsessed with publishing "advertorials" about the likes of Aldi rather than proper journalism. I asked the Mail whether Haynes had actually been at work when she started her vile campaign against me so that the Mail were responsible for her harassment of me? Strangely I did receive a reply from one Sarah Probert, who purports to be the "Deputy Editor", asking for further information which I duly supplied.

Haynes wrote a piece in the Mail that same day as the attacks and so was at work for some part of it. I informed Ms Probert that Haynes had launched her extraordinary attacks by four tweets on 6th June, 2020 at 11.08 am. 11.12 am, 12.16 pm and 12.39 pm.

So what did the Mail, that great upholder of "quality journalism", do next? Absolutely nothing. Probert has failed to respond despite being chased. These people are so high and mighty about being some sort of guardians of the truth but they are really just despicable cowards covering their arses.

ITV's Ben Chapman

This blog disclosed the high level of absenteeism in bent Labour Sandwell Council's paid service at the start of the Covid pandemic. Some of those rushing for the exit were full-time Union officials who were very anxious to "work from home". A large number of them have their wages paid by us taxpayers via "facility-time" despite working exclusively for the unions (again, more anon).

On the national ITN News I was surprised that ITV's Ben Chapman - who claims to have local knowledge - was sitting in a sizeable garden talking to a "customer services assistant" at a Midland's local authority. The report stated that she was "on the front line" of the Council's pandemic response whereas her Twitter feed suggested the exact opposite. Indeed she bragged to her Union General Secretary at the height of the Covid crisis that she was very busy, er, trying to recruitment new union members!

Of course, the "struggling single mother with two resident children" was - and is - a full-time Union rep at bent Labour Sandwell, paid for by us, and an official of a local constituency Labour Party to boot! It is hard to think of a more misleading few seconds of broadcast "journalism" even in these curious times.

Incidentally, by law, the top echelon of Sandwell's bent paid service must be apolitical yet very recently publicly praised the great work of the unions during Covid! Presumably the same unions who were vociferously campaigning to keep the schools shut and demanding that teacher's jump the vaccination queue!

A spokesperson for Chief Executive, David Stevens, made the extraordinary claim that:

"The unions have been a constant source of support for public health work throughout the pandemic. From safe workplaces to vaccination - they've always led from the front."

This does not accord with the information reaching the Skidder and please feel free to contact me on this or any other subject - contact details below of join the Facebook Group, "The Sandwell Skidder - Speaking Truth to Power".

The Express and Star

The Wolvo C*cksuckers never miss an opportunity to try and shaft me. A while ago I wrote to them querying why they always wrote about a Sandwell employee using a specific title when there was a danger that the public would be mislead by it (and some other media organisations did not feel the need to use the title). 

Even though the C*S's were very well aware of the true position they chose to refer my query about THEIR editorial position to the employee and to their mates at Sandwell Council! The employee then complained that I had written to the Star on this subject! When I recontacted one Mark Drew, the Star's "Group Deputy Editor", suggesting this was a clear data breach he made the extraordinary allegation that I had not been mentioned by name to the employee nor Council. In other words they must have "guessed" that I was the person who wrote to the C*S's!

As I've told you time and time again folks, you can't trust the Star! 

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