Ethical letter

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to you in regards to the job advert for Flipside media to produce a small documentary. I have notice that your advert has broken several codes and protocols. I will evaluate on this in my letter in the hopes that these discrepancies will be amended.

First of all I noticed that the Equality Act of 2010 was broken on multiple occasions. You wrote "Seeking male/female under 30" that is discrimination by age and prohibited under the act. Also you said "Religious views: Christian" first off all I'm not sure why it matters what religious views someone is and secondly this is also discrimination, you cannot choose not to give someone a job just because of their religious views. I noticed that later on in the letter while your employees are working you spoke nothing of any sort of protection. This violates the employer liability act, which stats all employers must offer their employees at the very least the most basic health and safety precautions. If this service ins't provided it's best to assume your employees will be paying extra to their trade unions.

I noticed several portrayals you mentioned in the advert that don't apply to practical codes. One being "female victims and male offenders" this is sexist, offensive & just down-right rude. Claiming all females are victims and all males offenders doesn't show it in a non-biased light therefore totally voids the entire documentary. On top of this it does absolutely nothing to expel media bias by furthering the view that it's on men that commit crimes and it makes it even harder for male victims to go and receive help because they'll just get turned away by someone with an outlook like yours.

Your target audience of "children in high school" is also not viable due to Ofcom broadcasting codes. Most notably it's the obscene publications act of 1959. This could seriously damage your target audience physically emotionally and mentally.

Sincerely



William Cutter