Interesting to see the sort of priorities that the BBC likes to push…
Why is Tim Cook of Apple the only major gay US CEO? asks BBC reporter Ben Morris.
The answer is that most CEO’s in the US, just like in the UK, manage to do their job without feeling a NEED to discuss their sexual preferences. The fact that Tim Cook decides he has to publicise it is surely more a question for him?
Beeboids act as though it is their, and our, political duty to advocate both:-
a.) homosexuality;
b.) Islam.
Well, they are after all two of the BBC’s Five Pillars of Faith (Race, Gender, EU, Immigration, Global Warming).
That’s good, but I’d have their “Five” Pillars of Faith: Islam, Sexuality, Feminism, Race, anti-Israel , Socialism, Global Warming and EU. I know that’s eight but it was counted by a BBC Economics “Expert”.
Good lists, George n Ian.
I would add ‘uncosted public spending’ to the list.
And sustainable environmentalism generally – they seem especially keen on planting more money trees.
What about homosexual Muslims. Just remembered there aren’t any they’ve all been hung by their brothers in the religion of peace.
The BBC are only interested in those ones that are well hung…
Yes, and when the one kills the other, by hanging or stoning, to pretend it never happened….
I suppose that if he was a midget ( sorry person of restricted growth) the BBC would be asking why more CEOs were not PORGS
Surely his sexuality dwarfs everything else…?
Now, now that’s enough of that. It’s belittling …
To my mind, this is a direct reflection that there are too many journalists within the BBC chasing too few news stories. Combine that with the need to provide instant analysis as well, and you get a situation where (in order to make a name for themselves) low level journos fight over themselves to analyse the banal.
Its a race to the bottom (pardon the pun).
‘a direct reflection that there are too many journalists within the BBC chasing too few news stories’
Nail on head. And we know who has work for idle hands.
We keep hearing about increases in news divisions, and commensurate topping up of market rates to head them up. These guys then seem to need more support staff to prop up their empires.
Social media also appears a vast, rich seam of new roles and titles, from trends to magazines.
Then, speaking of empires, there are all the ones overseas.
BBC’s new Australia operation appears to have been created to formalise JonDon’s new Abbott attack base.
But for breathtaking desperation to fill the 24/7 content void with something… anything, BBC World, especially on FaceBook, usually takes some beating, often with added nutjob comments that would have most Flokkers here heading to OFCOM (or whoever shuts down stuff other than the BBC, which handles such stuff itself).
To be fair it currently has a piece on a Kurdish woman soldier, if rather ironically raising the issue of propaganda to call into question if she actually exists.
‘a direct reflection that there are too many journalists within the BBC chasing too few news stories’
Should that not be ‘too many journalists within the BBC chasing too few news stories that dont undermine their narrative’?
‘a direct reflection that there are too many journalists within the BBC chasing too few news stories’
The same must be true then of CNN, NYT, Guardian, India Today, FT, Business Today, Time, etc etc etc etc etc.
Don’t show your ignorance. Most of the organs you mention have been laying off journalists – CNN has cut to the bone, NYT is going belly-up, etc.
The BBC remains grossly over-manned. At our forced expense.
Point completely missed there John.
The BBC ,courtosey of the telly tax payer, has more resources than all those put together
They boast of being the worlds biggest news gatherer
And yet inspite of being legends of journalism in their own latte break they failed to notice a war crime scale atrocity happening under their very noses.
All a question of priorities I guess.
You’d have apoint if they hadn’t covered the story….the complaint here though is thast they did. Epic fail Stu.
Most folk aren’t gay so most CEOs won’t be either surely? Cr@p Beeb
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I thought someone outed him not him doing it himself and then just went with it
The fact is that Apple’s CEO being gay isn’t ‘news’ by any stretch of the imagination to anyone but the liberal left chatterati (aka: the Twatterati). To the rest of us it’s a big *shrug*. I’m fairly sure, if the law of averages is any guide to go by, that the Board Rooms of major global corporations would reflect a pretty unremarkable number of LGBT amongst their ranks. The difference is, most of them never really feel the need to make a song and dance about it.
As a queer myself, the only reason I mention it here is because sometimes some of the regs here might need to be reminded that not all of us bumboys are fully signed-up Leftards. Some of us (god forbid) might even choose to vote UKIP.
Nice one Phil, It should be of no interest as ‘news’ whatsoever.
Excellent post. Phil Ford!
Well, it’s your choice to support a party whose senior grandees claim that gay people are destroying the institution of marriage, while they themselves sneak off to massage parlours behind their wife’s back, or who claim that same-sex couples who bring up a family are committing child abuse.
Still, never mind. You get to call other gay people “leftards”, so in Biased BBC’s bizarro world, you win.
‘You get to call other gay people “leftards”…..’
He didn’t – read it again.
Phil Ford,
“The fact is that Apple’s CEO being gay isn’t ‘news’ by any stretch of the imagination to anyone but the liberal left chatterati”
Really? Here’s a selection of headlines from those hotbeds of Marxism; The Daily Mail, Telegraph & Express:
“Apple CEO publicly acknowledges that he’s gay”
“Apple’s Tim Cook says “proud to be gay”
“Apple CEO Tim Cook officially comes out as gay saying that his sexuality is one of the ‘greatest gifts God has given me’”
“Even a multi-millionaire has to get groceries sometime! Apple boss Tim Cook turned 54 on Saturday just days after coming out as gay in BusinessWeek”
“Tim Cook’s right, being gay should be a gift not a death sentence”
“Why Apple’s Tim Cook was right to come out publicly”
“Tim Cook comes out as ‘proud to be gay’”
‘I’m proud to be gay’ Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly comes out in essay”
“The difference is, most of them never really feel the need to make a song and dance about it. As a queer myself, the only reason I mention it here is because…”
… Because you feel the need to make a song a dance about it?
Duh.
EPIC FAIL!
You don’t actually believe the Mail, Telegraph and Express uphold any traditional values do you?
You don’t actually believe the Mail, Telegraph and Express uphold any traditional values do you?
Funny how nobody complains when those same papers are quoted as a means to justify Biased BBC prejudices, though, isn’t it?
Well, Scott, I don’t have to pay for the bias of the Mail, Telegraph or Express, which don’t claim to be impartial. The same goes for Channel Four too. Whereas with the BBC … …
Stop saying that like you have a point. You missed it completely. The stupidity here never ceases.
Is that an order?
Rather reminded me of the line I once heard a man say: “I suspect that most of the men I’ve had sex with are gay, or at least bisexual, but it’s a rather personal question and one doesn’t ask.”
Looking forward to what dez has to say ……………………………….
You didn’t have to wait long. 🙂
TigerOC,
“Looking forward to what dez has to say…”
David Vance dislikes “the gays” and likes to remind everybody that he dislikes “the gays” on a regular basis. What else is new?
Interesting to see the sort of priorities that the BBC likes to push
Mmm, yes. One story on Friday, and this followup. Really swamping the news site, aren’t they?
The fact that Tim Cook decides he has to publicise it is surely more a question for him?
Well, it’s one he’s answered at length, with calm, reason and clarity – virtues we could all do well to share.
It was headline news on the BBC. Nothing said about the direction he’s taking Apple in, whether he’s a good CEO. You know, the sort of stuff shareholders would be interested in.
LGBT ‘rights’ are a constant theme on the BBC. If you’re a regular visitor to this site you will have seen countless examples.
This is nothing to do with being anti-gay but about BBC bias towards trendy leftist agendas (see opening posts above for more examples).
eg the Radio 4 Book at Bedtime for the past 2 weeks has been set among Oxford students – with the main character being gay and the narrator being heterosexual but having absurd and implausible gay moments during the series.
I have persisted with it – but it really has been boring, banal and predictable.
This story must have been manna from heaven for the beeb due to it’s profile standing. They haven’t quite been able to snare a Premier league footballer, despite reporting on numerous occasions the ‘large’ number of current footballers who are gay but too scared to come out, so this is probably the next best thing…well, apart from the female footballer who came out as a lesbian?? About as surprising as a muslim having paedophile tendancies then!
Did the beeb not make a bigger story from the Russians who pulled down an Apple info board that had Steve Job’s profile on it after finding out about the new CEO’s sexual preferences? You get one story, you get the next one free.
i know one thing,if i ever i applied for a job at the bbc the first thing i would do on my application form is say i am either gay or a muslim convert,that in my opinion would improve my chances and nailed on for getting a job at the bbc.
The key words being “in my opinion”. In other words, with no basis in fact.
Careful with the precedent you set there.
Most BBC complaints brush-offs and ever more editorial are based on just such words.
So for once, you may be on to something.