From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com 
  
 On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:14:11 +0100, JNugent wrote: 
  
 > On 31/07/2025 09:16 PM, Jethro_uk wrote: 
 >> On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:10:35 +0100, Martin Harran wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:30:21 +0100, JNugent  
 >>> wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>> On 18/07/2025 01:51 PM, Mark Goodge wrote: 
 >>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:03:49 +0100, Roland Perry  
 >>>>> wrote: 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>>> In message , at 13:59:10 on Thu, 
 >>>>>> 17 Jul 2025, JNugent  remarked: 
 >>>>>>> On 16/07/2025 06:49 PM, billy bookcase wrote: 
 >>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>> "JNugent"  wrote in message 
 >>>>>>>> news:mdq2h5FotucU1@mid.individual.net... 
 >>>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>>> You snipped it (for your own rasons), but can you posit an 
 >>>>>>>>> innocent reason for BBC vacancies being advertised in The 
 >>>>>>>>> Guardian, but not The Times or The Telegraph? 
 >>>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>> Even assuming that the claim is true 
 >>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>> It is. 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> And not the slightest bit un-usual. Back in the day, jobs for 
 >>>>>> senior managers in the IT industry (amongst others) were normally 
 >>>>>> advertised only in The Sunday Times. Quite irrespective of the 
 >>>>>> paper's politics. 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> Similarly jobs for senior schoolteachers, only in the TES (Times 
 >>>>>> Educational Supplement). 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> Why waste your money advertising elsewhere, when virtually all your 
 >>>>>> target audience will be assiduously scanning the one appropriate 
 >>>>>> publication every week? 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Indeed. It works both ways. Cornering the market for a particular 
 >>>>> type of paid content (eg, job adverts) is a very good way of also 
 >>>>> increasing the views of your own content (reportage) and other paid 
 >>>>> content (general advertising). And once you have a reputation for 
 >>>>> being the place people will look for these adverts, then the 
 >>>>> advertisers will focus on putting them in your publication. 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Another one which used to do that very effectively, pre-Internet, 
 >>>>> was the Evening Standard with its rental adverts. If you wanted to 
 >>>>> rent a flat in London, you needed to buy the Standard, because 
 >>>>> that's where all the adverts were. And if you had a flat you wanted 
 >>>>> to find a tenant for, you had to advertise it in the Standard 
 >>>>> because that's where everybody was looking. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> They were private sector adverts, placed most of the time by private 
 >>>> individuals. 
 >>> 
 >>> Not sure if it's still the case but back when i was working in 
 >>> Northern Ireland (70s to 90s), firms generally placed employment ads 
 >>> in both a 'Catholic' paper and a 'Protestant' paper so as not to run 
 >>> foul of fair emplyment legislation. 
 >> 
 >> NI is a special place for the equality act. As a few recruitment 
 >> systems have discovered to their cost. 
 > 
 > Is there any good reason why discrimination forbidden and policed in 
 > Northern Ireland should be allowed - and even encouraged - in the rest 
 > of the UK? 
  
 I suggest you read a history of Ireland from Cromwell to the present day. 
  
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