\n Luckily for me, none was made public in a career that spanned more than 45 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n But if they had\u2026?\n<\/p>\n
\n I mean, I have had some pretty animated rows in the Bristol TV newsroom with language that wouldn\u2019t have been out of place in a Bernard Manning Fan Club reunion.\n<\/p>\n
\n Workplace inappropriate behaviour, would you say?\n<\/p>\n
\n On holiday in France, I once left one of our infants in a supermarket trolley because I was too busy concentrating on how many bottles of French wine I was loading into the boot of our car!\n<\/p>\n
\n That\u2019s child neglect, isn\u2019t it?\n<\/p>\n
\n Then there was the time in our early married life I actually threw a rolled-up pair of socks at my wife, in anger.\n<\/p>\n
\n Domestic violence?\n<\/p>\n
\n She wasn\u2019t hurt, by the way!\n<\/p>\n
\n But none of these stories made it to social media (actually, it didn\u2019t exist in those days), so I survived as a television reporter, my reputation untarnished.\n<\/p>\n
\n If only the audience knew.\n<\/p>\n
\n I really am not sure where I stand on the issues surrounding MasterChef presenters Gregg Wallace and John Torode.\n<\/p>\n
\n What I do know is that their misdemeanours have been dissected, scrutinised, and analysed in a quite extraordinary way.\n<\/p>\n
\n Is it really national news?\n<\/p>\n
\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, serious abuse (physical or mental) in any form cannot be tolerated.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jeremy Clarkson discovered that to his cost.\n<\/p>\n
\n But if a man did say something offensive eight years ago that he can\u2019t even remember, is that a sackable offence?\n<\/p>\n
\n And what about the American company CEO caught on a giant TV screen cuddling one of his junior staff members at a Coldplay concert?\n<\/p>\n
\n That very public display of affection went viral on the internet and eventually cost him his job.\n<\/p>\n
\n He may or may not have been having an affair with the woman in question, although the way they both ducked out of camera shot at breakneck speed suggests they really didn\u2019t want to be seen.\n<\/p>\n
\n But I\u2019m sure that ‘back in the day’ that would have been an issue for husband and wife to sort out behind closed doors (maybe with a few socks being hurled!!).\n<\/p>\n
\n I\u2019m not sure an employer would even have been interested.\n<\/p>\n
\n So have we now become a society more enlightened with a greater sense of morality, or are we really over-analysing every little mistake and letting internet outrage run our lives?\n<\/p>\n
\n You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luckily for me, none was made public in a career that spanned more than 45 years. But if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-49648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}