30/01/2018 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow.

With me is the political

commentator Daisy McAndrew

and Chief Political Correspondent

at the Daily Telegraph,

Christopher Hope.

Many of tomorrow's front

pages are already in.

The Guardian's main story

is the backlash following the equal

pay report at the BBC in which it

said there was no evidence

of "gender bias" in pay decisions

by the corporation.

The Metro also has the same story,

saying female staff have accused

bosses of a whitewash

after the report found only a 6.8%

discrepancy on average earnings

between men and women.

The Times writes that housing

developers face losing

the right to build on land

if they fail to hit construction

targets, under new Government plans.

The Telegraph leads with comments

by the Government's former chief

scientist that German

car manufacturers have

'blood' on their hands

following the emissions scandal.

The paper also has a photo

of the Duchess of Cambridge

on her royal tour with

Prince William to Sweden.

The Financial Times says Amazon

is to enter into the US

health care market which could,

the paper says, reduce costs

for "all Americans."

The paper also headlines that the UK

has hit its cap on skilled visas

for non-EU workers for two months

in a row, for the first time.

And The Mirror quotes a new report

which says thousands

of cancer patients die in Britain

due to a lack of funding,

with some of the worst

survival rates than five

of the EU's largest nations.

Cracking on with the metro, take us

to the farce and the furious.

This

is about the BBC's gender pay

report, you won't be surprised, many

are saying, in particular female

presenters, are saying it was a

whitewash, that it is not fully

transparent, they say that PwC he

did the report have simply handed

over the report that the BBC wanted.

This is about women not pay the same

as men, it looks navel-gazing from

the outside looking in. Every BBC

Billiton has been leading with this

story, which... It does feel a bit

awkward, it feels we are airing the

dirty linen in public. Also the BBC

saying there is no market in news

where there is a market in

entertainment and that is why people

like Chris Evans are on millions

compared to others, but that is not

true, there is a market in news, a

large market between the different

broadcaster.

But it is less now than

it was, is the argument. Few options

for television news...

There is

always a market, this is about a

report showing 7% difference between

men and women, and it is a bit of

navel-gazing. Lots of news

provisions, BBC as a rival, so it is

a bit of a punchbag. People care

about the BBC as well, the BBC

matters. So, it is something of a

totem. The BBC loves to have a

crisis, every three years, this

place goes into firm and, when this

happens, you have interviewers who

are badgering their bosses for more

pay, interviewing bosses on air

about wanting more pay! It is

bonkers. Collective nervous

breakdown.

Appearance by the bigwigs

and by Carrie Gracie, the journalist

who sparked this off in some ways.

The only thing I would question,

every three years?

There was a

backlash, the pay review found there

was no gender bias, according

to PwC, men paid well before 2010

are now doing better in proportion

to younger women. That's why they

are giving these pay rises to 200

people, of whom the majority are...

Men!

The second tranche of pay, only

one third of those presenters are

women, two thirds are men. So you

can certainly see a big gap. A big

gap in the Times coverage where it

says the PwC

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I knew that we would enjoy this one.

Rest assured, I am not on any list!

Perhaps you should be!

LAUGHTER.

My belief is... And I think I am

right, actually, very few presenters

bring audience with them, it is the

programme and the content that

maintains the loyalty of the

audience, many presenters turn

people off, turn viewers or

listeners off because they do not

like their style but very few when

they move from BBC to ITN actually

take the audience with them, so you

wonder what on earth they are being

paid for!

You mentioned the Times,

let's show the coverage as well, BBC

pay review will give men more rises

than women, this is a reference to

what Lord Hall has said about all

the adjustments.

The women are

getting a greater pay rise than the

men but by volume... Start paying

people by target, and soon... It

becomes like Russia, tractor

production... There is a market for

people doing a certain job, the

damages, if that is what you end up

paying.

Whole thing is an absolute

mess. The alternative, six

presenters being told that they will

take a pay cut, I don't think that

is the way to do it, I think that is

pretty unfair, clearly some of them

are earning silly money. Some

months, seems rather random.

Perhaps

they will go into programme making.

Where will they come from, these pay

rises.

The times, changing stories,

ugly truth of socialism laid bare by

researchers, says whom?

This is

literally saying that socialists are

physically less attractive than

right-wing people... It has been

backed up by research, so this is

research that shows attractive

people tend to do better in life,

largely because people interact with

them differently, this can leave

them with a blind spot when it comes

to others hardship. And result in

the good-looking being less likely

to back redistributive taxes and

more likely to be Tories. And they

have done this huge amount of

research, involving more than 2000

people, monitoring, working out how

attractive they are and what

corresponding political views are.

And they are claiming, ugly people

become socialists. It is brilliant.

What do we think?

I think it is

true(!)

as a Tory...!

Telegraph

readership, I think... The Guardian

readers, generally wonderful

looking...

Socialists more likely to

be physically weak, that is a whole

different argument.

I am going to

leave that there are. Not comment on

it at all, just as we did with the

first story we did. Telegraph is...

This is interesting, inheritance tax

gifting and the limit for it may be

lifted, we are told.

Almost

legitimising what is happening a

lot, parents, grandparents giving

money to their children to get onto

the housing market, almost saying,

the bank of mum and dad is actually

happening, rather than an idea that

it is happening. Trickle-down

economics. It is what is going on

out there.

The trouble with the

story is it plays to a certain

audience, very many people will

never be in a position to inherit

money, whenever, from their parents,

because their parents simply do not

have the money. The problem with

inheritance tax, it is not a fair

tax, it infringes on fairness. This

idea that it is to help kids get on

the housing market, the average age

of someone who gets inheritance is

61, this is not kids getting onto

the housing market.

Quite an old age

to get on. And you can already get

850,000. It is not a small amount of

money. So it is not a great policy

but it is certainly preaching to a

certain voter.

I was going to

suggest that might be why...

Let's move onto one that I know you

both... Hesitate to use the word

fixated... But, actually, I won't

hesitate, you were both fixated on

this earlier, and Frankie, why not.

The big story of tomorrow.

This

killer whale, apparently, can speak

a few words of English.

Hilariously,

it is in France. Perhaps getting

into Britain.

Apparently he can say

hello, he can count to three, and he

can say goodbye. I know that we have

had a lot of stories about Wales

being able to communicate with

dolphins, I don't know if this is

the first English speaking wail. --

whales. We try to hear it but we did

not.

When Lassie comes along and she

barks three times and they find the

child... This is a little bit more

than that.

The creatures are able to

copy unfamiliar sounds produced by

other orca Wales, including a sound

similar to blowing a rose Brit.

Hello, 1-2, and bye bye! It is

incredible.

It is a killer whale. --

blowing a raspberry. Being looked

after in Antibes. We will

momentarily return to a cartoon, not

sure where we will show you it. I

think we may be able to show it,

this is from the Matt cartoon.

Genius, first year anniversary with

the newspaper this year, we are

proud to have in there, this is,

what can I say, it is a BBC boss, in

the Blue Planet office, with a

starfish...

Of course, starfish turn into female

starfish as they get older, had to

check that one. We checked it

earlier, it is hilarious, combining

lots of good ideas!

He is so clever.

Time is up. Thank you very much

indeed. That is it for the papers

tonight. Don't forget, you can see

the front pages online, on the BBC

news website.

If you miss the papers any evening,

you can watch it on the eye player,

thank you very much.

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