Sensitive to criticism

In this week of bombshell size surprises, I am surprised that certain media bosses are surprised at being criticised in a wide range of media about their behaviour in the industrial relations field. Mirror Group management were apparently upset at STV interviewing me on screen for the six o clock news after their announcement of 90 job cuts at The Record and Sunday Mail and outsourcing work to England. They were probably less upset with BBC Scotland only doing a piece on DriveTime with little or nothing on Reporting Scotland or Newsnight Scotland, but maybe there is an old pals act in place there - time will tell. I was then criticised on Facebook by a freelance member for failing to get blood out of a stone that is Johnston Press and had to say I wasn't too happy and responded accordingly. I was then criticised by STV management for daring to put a tweet onto the NUJ web site highlighting a little difficulty we are having with poor communication from managers. For a communication industry we really do have problems with communicating in more ways than one.