From: jethro_uk@hotmailbin.com 
  
 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. 
  
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