Jerome Ousted?

[Maguire01]

The BBC don't pay RTE for the video footage of the Ulster Championship, so what is the money spent on and who is it paid to?

But it's generally BBC trucks at the Ulster games - is it not their cameras?

Am sure the BBC are there as well with their broadcast gear, but the BBC camera work on the matches themselves are not hard to spot.

But where are RTE? You don't normally see their trucks at the Ulster games at all.

[Ulick]

The BBC don't pay RTE for the video footage of the Ulster Championship, so what is the money spent on and who is it paid to?

But it's generally BBC trucks at the Ulster games - is it not their cameras?

Am sure the BBC are there as well with their broadcast gear, but the BBC camera work on the matches themselves are not hard to spot.

But where are RTE? You don't normally see their trucks at the Ulster games at all.

In the car park? I never see the trucks from either.

[orangeman]

Jerome Quinn sacked for 'not being impartial'

Thursday, 13 May 2010


A BBC GAA sports presenter was sacked because he had compromised his impartiality by sending blogs criticising the corporation, an industrial tribunal has been told.

Co Tyrone man Jerome Quinn, once the self-styled face of BBC Northern Ireland's GAA coverage, is claiming unfair dismissal and racial and religious discrimination after he was sacked last year over the blogs criticising how the broadcaster treated the sport.

On the final day of evidence from the BBC, head of radio news Kathleen Carragher said the decision to dismiss Mr Quinn, a Catholic, was "not taken lightly" but that the blogs by Mr Quinn amounted to gross misconduct.

The tribunal heard that sports presenter Stephen Watson had witnessed Mr Quinn writing the blogs while at work.

The blogs meant Mr Quinn could no longer be viewed as impartial, Ms Carragher said. "The BBC has a very privileged position because we are a public service broadcaster and we have a duty to the licence payer to deliver news in an impartial and fair manner and if you are a BBC journalist you have to be impartial... and I felt Jerome had not subscribed to that," she said.

Mr Quinn previously said he felt sidelined after Shane Glynn took over as sports editor because he had less TV work and was given early morning shifts on Radio Ulster. Miss Carragher said presenters could feel sidelined "if a new editor wants to do something new with a new face".

But Mr Quinn's role of early morning radio reports was not evidence of that. "I don't consider doing reports on (morning news show) Good Morning Ulster as being sidelined."

Both sides are set to give their final submissions to the panel tribunal today though judgment is expected to be reserved for some weeks.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/jerome-quinn-sacked-for-lsquonot-being-impartialrsquo-14806002.html


What a snivelling wee cnut. Would you do that to a co-worker?

There's a word for people who grass on each other. And it's not whistleblower !!!

[brokencrossbar1]

Jerome Quinn sacked for 'not being impartial'

Thursday, 13 May 2010


A BBC GAA sports presenter was sacked because he had compromised his impartiality by sending blogs criticising the corporation, an industrial tribunal has been told.

Co Tyrone man Jerome Quinn, once the self-styled face of BBC Northern Ireland's GAA coverage, is claiming unfair dismissal and racial and religious discrimination after he was sacked last year over the blogs criticising how the broadcaster treated the sport.

On the final day of evidence from the BBC, head of radio news Kathleen Carragher said the decision to dismiss Mr Quinn, a Catholic, was "not taken lightly" but that the blogs by Mr Quinn amounted to gross misconduct.

The tribunal heard that sports presenter Stephen Watson had witnessed Mr Quinn writing the blogs while at work.

The blogs meant Mr Quinn could no longer be viewed as impartial, Ms Carragher said. "The BBC has a very privileged position because we are a public service broadcaster and we have a duty to the licence payer to deliver news in an impartial and fair manner and if you are a BBC journalist you have to be impartial... and I felt Jerome had not subscribed to that," she said.

Mr Quinn previously said he felt sidelined after Shane Glynn took over as sports editor because he had less TV work and was given early morning shifts on Radio Ulster. Miss Carragher said presenters could feel sidelined "if a new editor wants to do something new with a new face".

But Mr Quinn's role of early morning radio reports was not evidence of that. "I don't consider doing reports on (morning news show) Good Morning Ulster as being sidelined."

Both sides are set to give their final submissions to the panel tribunal today though judgment is expected to be reserved for some weeks.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/jerome-quinn-sacked-for-lsquonot-being-impartialrsquo-14806002.html


What a snivelling wee cnut. Would you do that to a co-worker?

There's a word for people who grass on each other. And it's not whistleblower !!!

Black Bag, Concession Road, end of

[Doogie Browser]

Jerome Quinn sacked for ‘not being impartial’

Thursday, 13 May 2010


A BBC GAA sports presenter was sacked because he had compromised his impartiality by sending blogs criticising the corporation, an industrial tribunal has been told.

Co Tyrone man Jerome Quinn, once the self-styled face of BBC Northern Ireland’s GAA coverage, is claiming unfair dismissal and racial and religious discrimination after he was sacked last year over the blogs criticising how the broadcaster treated the sport.

On the final day of evidence from the BBC, head of radio news Kathleen Carragher said the decision to dismiss Mr Quinn, a Catholic, was “not taken lightly” but that the blogs by Mr Quinn amounted to gross misconduct.

The tribunal heard that sports presenter Stephen Watson had witnessed Mr Quinn writing the blogs while at work.

The blogs meant Mr Quinn could no longer be viewed as impartial, Ms Carragher said. “The BBC has a very privileged position because we are a public service broadcaster and we have a duty to the licence payer to deliver news in an impartial and fair manner and if you are a BBC journalist you have to be impartial... and I felt Jerome had not subscribed to that,” she said.

Mr Quinn previously said he felt sidelined after Shane Glynn took over as sports editor because he had less TV work and was given early morning shifts on Radio Ulster. Miss Carragher said presenters could feel sidelined “if a new editor wants to do something new with a new face”.

But Mr Quinn’s role of early morning radio reports was not evidence of that. “I don’t consider doing reports on (morning news show) Good Morning Ulster as being sidelined.”

Both sides are set to give their final submissions to the panel tribunal today though judgment is expected to be reserved for some weeks.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/jerome-quinn-sacked-for-lsquonot-being-impartialrsquo-14806002.html


What a snivelling wee cnut. Would you do that to a co-worker?

There's a word for people who grass on each other. And it's not whistleblower !!!

Black Bag, Concession Road, end of

The good oul days 

[orangeman]

It makes me laugh how the BBC are saying that Jerome was fired for not being impartial and that as a broadcaster he needed to be independent and now show favour to one side or another, when in fact it was the BBC who were discriminating wholesale against a huge section of the population and who led with rugby, cricket, socccer, motorbike racing etc etc etc and left GAA lagging behind.


The irony of it all.



There's some coverage of the MW200 this week !!!! Great isn't it ?   

[theskull1]

I want Steven Watson to front"The Championship" just to see how impartial he is.

[Doogie Browser]

It makes me laugh how the BBC are saying that Jerome was fired for not being impartial and that as a broadcaster he needed to be independent and now show favour to one side or another, when in fact it was the BBC who were discriminating wholesale against a huge section of the population and who led with rugby, cricket, socccer, motorbike racing etc etc etc and left GAA lagging behind.


The irony of it all.



There's some coverage of the MW200 this week !!!! Great isn't it ?   

f**king hell, it was the headline story on Breakfast news this morning at 7.55am!  WTF??

[haranguerer]

BBC breakfast this morning - local news: first item on the news - motorcyclists gearing up for the start of the NW200 tomorrow. This before any of the actual news.

I dont mind the NW, I've been to it a few times, but its boring as f**k, and its actually naueating how much it is forced down our throats. Wheres the impartiality there?

[orangeman]

BBC breakfast this morning - local news: first item on the news - motorcyclists gearing up for the start of the NW200 tomorrow. This before any of the actual news.

I dont mind the NW, I've been to it a few times, but its boring as f**k, and its actually naueating how much it is forced down our throats. Wheres the impartiality there?

There was none - that's what Jerome is trying to show / prove -
it's improving - but it was Jerome who tried to promote GAA within the BBC who have suffered as a result. 
But he's up against it whenever yer woman Carragher comes out with the sort of stuff that she has said to the tribunal.

And she kept her face straight as well.

[orangeman]

If Jerome's case makes the BBC more accountable and less discriminatory towards all things GAA, then it will have been a worthwhile exercise.


If Jerome gets a few quid off them, even better.

[Doogie Browser]

If Jerome's case makes the BBC more accountable and less discriminatory towards all things GAA, then it will have been a worthwhile exercise.


If Jerome gets a few quid off them, even better.

This case will do the ordinary GAA punter no harm at all in the long run, the beeb are now bending over backwards to prove they are not discriminatory and there is no doubt coverage has and will increase.  Nothing to do with this case though 

[rrhf]

I havent been on this board much recently, but I would like to offer my best wishes to Jerome who despite the outcome has helped bring to attention the shocking bias in BBC broadcasting over the years towards Gaelic Games.  That is the ball I think I am going to play here; the ways and means that Jerome has sought to prove this bias with limited resources against the greater resources of the  british broadcasting corporation and the ways and means that they have defended themselves to me is irrelevant but quite obviously the most important things to many others.  I dont think Jerome ever had a chance of winning this one and I dont think he really believed he did.  But I think he has sacrificed an awful lot to try and improve the lot of Gaelic Games supporters in the North who pay license fees annually to have their loved games, culture and purveyance of excellent community standards, dragged through the mud when our standards fall,  but  fail to see any degree of parity of treatrment amongst other the sporting organisation, never mind a proper positioning of the association by the so called neutral media broadcaster as N Irelands most important, inclusive and unique sporting provider.  If Jerome hasnt been discriminated against by the BBC according to a court of law,  he would be the first GAA man in the North not to have been.         

[ardmhachaabu]

I havent been on this board much recently, but I would like to offer my best wishes to Jerome who despite the outcome has helped bring to attention the shocking bias in BBC broadcasting over the years towards Gaelic Games.  That is the ball I think I am going to play here; the ways and means that Jerome has sought to prove this bias with limited resources against the greater resources of the  british broadcasting corporation and the ways and means that they have defended themselves to me is irrelevant but quite obviously the most important things to many others.  I dont think Jerome ever had a chance of winning this one and I dont think he really believed he did.  But I think he has sacrificed an awful lot to try and improve the lot of Gaelic Games supporters in the North who pay license fees annually to have their loved games, culture and purveyance of excellent community standards, dragged through the mud when our standards fall,  but  fail to see any degree of parity of treatrment amongst other the sporting organisation, never mind a proper positioning of the association by the so called neutral media broadcaster as N Irelands most important, inclusive and unique sporting provider.  If Jerome hasnt been discriminated against by the BBC according to a court of law,  he would be the first GAA man in the North not to have been.         

He broke the terms and conditions of his employment by denigrating his employer on the internet.  That's all there is to it.  By taking them to a tribunal he caused himself lots of stress without ever having any real hope.  What's more is, he did it on a work computer and colleagues of his saw him do it!

[Main Street]

Lessons in life don't come cheap, at least not ones learnt in a court.

You can't buy what he will have learned through the whole ordeal.
Regardless of the outcome, he will be the stronger person.