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Main feature 14 Benefits Street Revisited Time to stop demonising the poor
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hen the last edition of The Journalist reached you we were just about to go to the polls in Britain. Now we have the first
Conservative government for 18 years and the implications of that for journalists and trade
unionists are unfolding. New laws are planned to make it harder to go out on strike.
Somewhat ironically, as soon as this move was indicated there was a series of announcements about strikes or planned strikes, including our own at ITV. The new legislation will undoubtedly scupper industrial action where the voter turnout is low but it’s possible the unions could turn the restrictions into a motivator to recruit more members. For the NUJ, there is renewed uncertainty over the future
shape and funding of the BBC. It’s an imminent threat as negotiations loom for the renewal of the BBC’s charter. The union has begun a broad campaign with the Federation of Entertainment Unions to preserve the integrity and quality journalism for which the BBC is renowned.
There will also be further squeezes on benefits as part of the
Government’s cost cuts. Our cover feature looks at how benefits claimants and the poor have become increasingly demonised through reality programmes such as Benefits Street and in the pages of hostile newspapers. A very far cry from the sympathy that flowed from one of the original portrayals of life on the breadline in Cathy Come Home.
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News 03 London papers hit by strike Newsquest dispute over cuts and pay
04 Action at ITV for pay increase Unions press for improved offer
05 Victory for victimised FoC Rotherham redundancy threat lifted
06 Bullying survey in Scotland Journalists threatened online
07 Local News Matters moves up a gear Union reps meet to intensify campaign
Features 10 Let’s go to Truro Journalism in Poldark country
18 Remembering Acas all-nighters Behind the scenes at the TUC
Regulars 09 Viewpoint 17 NUJ and me 20 Technology
Arts withArts with Attitutitude
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Raymond Snoddy Page 21
Letters &
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