Friday, November 05, 2010

Freedom of speech

Today, I spoke to the media for the first time.  I was speaking on behalf of a coallition of unions and representing some very underpaid people.  Let me get this straight though.  I am well paid.  In the last 2 years, my agency has received the wages we should have been receiving from the beginning.  This allows me to speak on other's behalf as I was once in their shoes and understand the importance of the change to wage parity*.

I spoke to that with two news groups and three radio groups.

Not even 3 hours later, one of the radio groups messed with my recording and made it sound like I was complaining about *my* wage.

So, now I'm angry at the press.  I'm feeling betrayed and -- where I had been feeling like a champion for the powerless -- I now feel like a first class chump.

So, if you hear Gormly go on about me on his "news talk" show, know this:  That's not what I said.

I just hope to God the television people do a better job.  Sigh.


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Update: I can't spell.  Thanks to JAG for reminding me that it is "parity" not "parody" though technically, with those wages, it could be either!

8 comments:

  1. Gormley is an **%. Any person with any type of critical thinking skills takes what he says with a grain of salt the size of a salt lick for cows.

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  2. Anonymous said exactly what I was going to say. Gormley is a freaking chump. Forget what he says.

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  3. I used to work very closely with Gormo. He's a good guy, and if you met him in a situation where you weren't talking politics or labour relations, you'd likely find him charming and not at all what you expect.

    Talk radio is a form of entertainment... which is not to say he doesn't believe what he says. He just delivers it in a way that people who hold different beliefs find infuriating. Which is kind of the point of the medium.

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  4. It wasn't actually Gormly himself, but an affiliate. Sarah Mills of CJME. She spliced my interview incorrectly, put it on the radio and then wrote a piece where she did the same. Everyone else got it right. Just her. And I'm at a loss.

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  5. Apologies to Gormley, then. Hopefully if you bring your concerns to CJME, Sarah Mills can do something of a retraction or correction.

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  6. You should be grateful you have a job in these tough economic times!

    (I am sassy today!)

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  7. Suck it, Roger! (You're sassy, but I'm just bitchy)

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  8. I've had this happen to me, when CBC interviewed me about UofR raising tuition several years ago. They took the most out-of-context tiny thing I said and only put that in, making it sound like I said the opposite of what I really said.

    I severely mistrust sound bites now, as a result of that.

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