Channel4 #fail?
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- MatDolphin
Is it us or does anyone else think this headline is wrong?
http://twitpic.com/1j48pv/full
- Stugoo0
yes
- Stugoo0
direct source?
- Nope - Someone sent it to us. Pretty bad though.MatDolphin
- Stugoo0
here it is again...
http://www.broadcastjobs.co.uk/j…
- tasty0
"telly-mad disabled people"
- PIZZA0
If I'm also black and ginger can I go to the front of the queue.
- ********0
Not to sure being disabled is a WIn! Win!
- please get disabled and report back...kingsteven
- Report: No it's not a WIN!********
- monospaced0
It's a win because the positions are for disabled people.
- Not the best choice of words, but it's not really "wrong"monospaced
- i_monk0
I don't see the problem.
- ********0
I'm not sure what the problem is either.
If you were categorised as disabled - why shouldn't you see that as a positive thing?
Calling a disability a 'win' is a positive statement - there's not reason that a disability should be seen as blight or problem. Viewing disability positively probably reflects the way that most successful people with disabilities feel about themselves. It also challenges negative assumptions.
The term 'disabled' traditionally has negative connotations; if you think about it, in reality we're actually all 'differently-abled' .. no-one can do everything - but it's a universally used word.
Asking if readers are 'differently-abled' wouldn't really get the message across. It's pretty shitty copy - but that seems to be standard fare for job adverts.
In terms of positive discrimination - I don't see a problem with it.
There are most likely a lot of challenges to getting jobs in the media, for people who are classified as disabled. Most of these probably relate to the perception of other people, rather than challenges presented by their accessibility requirements.
If a work programme allows people in the industry to put their prejudices aside (by getting them to work with 'talented, disabled' people they might have otherwise not encountered), why would that be a bad thing?
- SteveJobs0
re: "win, win"
i think they need to first go after the low hanging fruit, then re-strategize and re-shift their paradigms, so that everyone's on the same page.
- cilence0
http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_m…
I love this video.
- ********0
I'd rather lose thanks
- Stugoo0
I feel it reads similar to
disabled = win
talented = winI think I might be spending too much time on the internet
- ********0
At least Channel4 are putting jobs out there for these people, good on them, fuck I sound Australian FFS.
- ********0
How dare they give jobs to talented disabled people when there are plenty of talentless idjits out there with working limbs.
- georgesIII0
is "Channel4 #fail" even a sentence?
