Yes, I think they are technically self employed. Their gowns still have a little pocket built into the back where their clients used to surreptitiously push a wad of bank notes in payment for their service.
isn't a credit card reader these days? Surely all the cash would be rather heavy / uncomfortable.
@pansyface 'not guilty' and 'not proven' are two different permissible verdicts in Scottish courts, and something which really should be available in England too.
I have just watched a fair haired BBC reporter stood outside Kings Cross Station in the full glare of the sun. No hat, and perspiring freely as her report went on. She could at least have had one of those large umbrellas with the BBC News logo.
As the BBC are in full flow, telling us how we're all going to die if we so much as set a foot outside, you'd have thought she would have been stood in the shade. Maybe l'm missing something.
A full H&S assessment will have been done, as it always is by the BBC. That's why it's perfectly safe for reporters to be out in storms, gales, floods. They are much more resistant to injury than normal mortals.
I wouldn't wish injury on the reporters but would love to see what would happen if one did get seriously injured after a 'full H&S assessment has been carried out'. It makes absolutely no sense for BBC to tell everybody else that it is dangerous to go out, and then send their own people out. Surely in these technologically advanced days they could set up remote cameras in advance and have reports done from a safe, remote location.
I wouldn't wish injury on the reporters but would love to see what would happen if one did get seriously injured after a 'full H&S assessment has been carried out'. It makes absolutely no sense for BBC to tell everybody else that it is dangerous to go out, and then send their own people out. Surely in these technologically advanced days they could set up remote cameras in advance and have reports done from a safe, remote location.
That would be too sensible. Evidently the viewing public aren’t deemed intelligent enough to interpret anything without a person, and preferably a ‘household name’ , to deliver a report. Same thinking that requires a ‘household name’ to be flown at great expense to read an autocue in front of the White House, or similar.
It's the pointless, " over to our reporter outside No10, the home office, the old bailey or whatever" , even if it's 10 oclock at night. Why not just have them in the studio? Nobody is going to run out of the Old Bailey at that time of day. And it's certainly NOT just the BBC who do this. They ALL do it.
I was watching the news yesterday and the reporter was standing next to someone using a chainsaw. Couldn't hear a word. It wasn't even particularly relevant to the report. Nuts
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Surely all the cash would be rather heavy / uncomfortable.
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And it's certainly NOT just the BBC who do this. They ALL do it.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”