To be Rigged (with transcript)

Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: #747 To be Rigged (with transcript) https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-mc42/episodes/747-To-be-Rigged-with-transcript-e2j5dfn

Transcript https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAOtcKX3LOgmTEWRU5SaEV4pLLDDtzx9/view?usp=drivesdk

Today’s phrase is to be rigged. Now when something is rigged, it is believed that it’s operated using deceit or some kind of malicious behaviour to promote a desired outcome. Now, let me just give you some examples to show you what I mean:

So, if we say, for example, 

We had an election today to vote for our Union leader but I honestly believe the election is rigged. 

The job vacancy has been advertised in the newspaper but I believe it’s been rigged. We all know who’s going to win.

 The football match was definitely rigged. I don’t think the football players were playing in their usual way today. 

The competition to win a holiday in the local newspaper has been won by an employee of that newspaper. That was definitely rigged.

So it says here, TV jobs at the BBC have been rigged. Now this isn’t new, there’s always been accusations against the BBC that women are paid less than men. I think that the BBC is such an old establishment that it’s sometimes unaware of some of its practices. Despite evolving and changing there’s still accusations that the way it operates is sometimes rigged in favour of particular people based upon gender or cost cutting and of course once there’s one accusation usually that prompts many others.

So the headline says, “TV jobs at the BBC. Rigged”. So let’s read through this, it says:

“ Female BBC journalists have begun legal action against the broadcaster claiming a job application process was rigged”. 

Full transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAOtcKX3LOgmTEWRU5SaEV4pLLDDtzx9/view?usp=drivesdk