‘I often think the world would be a much better place if it were ruled by women’
Sturgeon, speaking on The Shift podcast, says the world would be a “better place” if it were ruled by women and that females are still forced to work “twice as hard” as men to be taken “even half as seriously”.
I went through periods in life – and still go through periods in life now – where that sense of [ambition] is challenged and I doubt it more. I have spoken to a lot of women who feel this, friends and other women who would articulate exactly the same thing here…You really have to work so much harder to prove yourself so much more, to be taken probably half as seriously – particularly in the profession I’m in – as your average man. It can be tiresome are wearisome that we still have to do that but I’ve come to the conclusion in my life that it’s actually quite a good thing. Because you end up being better [than the men], because you work a lot harder and you have to really go so much further to prove yourself and be taken seriously. I have to be careful that doesn’t sound like an argument for women always having to struggle more to be taken seriously, because it shouldn’t be like that…But when you see women, and I’m not talking about myself here I’m talking about other women in senior positions: by and large, they’re better than their equivalent man and, more often than not, they’ve had to push themselves a lot harder to get to where they are. I often think the world would be a much better place if it were ruled by women.
Brown: Irish independence led to 50 years of austerity
In a podcast interview called Finding Common Cause Online, hosted by Our Scottish Future, Brown talks about 50 years of austerity and division after Irish Independence.
He also says that although Ireland was now financially better off, a great deal of its wealth was insecurely based on offering lower rates of taxation than other countries a situation that could change quite easily.
Scotland Tonight: How do we learn to live with Covid?
Sturgeon is interviewed on Scotland Tonight, where she suggests the Scottish Government was planning for a long-term shift away from extensive curbs.
Sometimes when you hear people talk about learning to live with Covid, what seems to be suggested is that one morning we’ll wake up and not have to worry about it anymore, and not have to do anything to try to contain and control it. That’s not what I mean when I say ‘learning to live with it’. Instead, we will have to ask ourselves what adaptations to pre-pandemic life – face coverings, for example – might be required in the longer-term to enable us to live with it with far fewer protective measures.
I would say that, but for the protective measures we introduced before Christmas and but for the very responsible behaviour of the public, I think we would be in an even more challenging situation right now…Some of our projections pre-Christmas have not quite come to pass because we’ve managed to mitigate to some extent what the Omicron wave would otherwise have presented for us.
“How do we learn to live with covid? That’s [a question] the Scottish Government is thinking very carefully about”
In the First Minister’s first interview of the year, she talks about the current covid restrictions.
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— ScotlandTonight (@ScotlandTonight) January 10, 2022
Leitch doubts effectiveness of Sturgeon lockdown
Leitch confirms that Sturgeon’s stringent lockdown measures, which have financially affected Scottish football clubs and nightclubs, have made no difference to the spread of Covid. Scottish football is losing £2 million per week in lost revenue whilst Scotland maintains a similar level of infection to England.
If you want to do the comparison, Northern Ireland’s number is much higher than ours. Wales is higher. England and Scotland is very similar. We were lower than them, now they’re catching up a little bit.
Despite this, he maintains it is correct to continue in a similar manner on the basis that the weekly figures are just a snapshot and that in the longer term, Scotland will begin to see the benefits.
Should we still be protecting the public from these case rates if they are just going to go anyway? I think ‘yes’ is the answer to that. I think the protections reduce the size of the wave and potentially also elongate the wave to allow more people to get vaccinated and spread the hospitalisations and intensive care cases out over a longer period.
Conversation Nation interview
Yaccarino discusses embracing differences and navigating a new media landscape.
Salesforce Connections interview
Yaccarino is interviewed for Salesforce Connections, where she talks about how opening up to her team invited their advice and support, and how being the only woman at the table was an opportunity to stand out.
MSNBC interview: Women in charge
Yaccarino is interviewed by Brzezinski, primarily about women’s role in business:
I think the tendency for women to [keep their heads down] stems generationally. If you were too aggressive as a woman, you [were seen as a too] ambitious woman, to the detriment of others. But for a man, you’re interpreted as a hard-charging executive and in the leadership club that deserves to be in the C-suite. So, I think women tend to play it safe because a lot of leadership qualities historically were looked upon negatively towards women.
Scotland on Sunday interview
Mark & Mary are interviewed in Scotland on Sunday about The Majority and the #ResignSturgeon campaign.
We represent the silent majority of people in Scotland, who are angry and frustrated by Nicola Sturgeon’s shenanigans bringing international shame on Scotland. When we left that time, the SNP were just 5 per cent in the polls and just a nutter and cranks, or rightly viewed that way. To some extent the big question was ‘how did this happen?’. We talked about the boiling frog, the frogs in the pot that don’t realise they are being slowly boiled. The casual nationalism and seeing that is quite disturbing – this rise in anti-English sentiment, a rise in centralisation of power in Edinburgh, just things that people in Scotland might not notice as much…The response was very positive and it’s clear people are looking for something, and I think that’s why we’ve grown quickly, to 14,000 followers on Twitter and 25,000 on Facebook.
On the Scottish Parliament, Mark says:
The nature of constitutional arrangement should be something that should be looked at at all times. There should be more discussion on what alternatives there are to a Scottish Parliament and is the Scottish Parliament delivering for the Scottish people? For the last 14 years it hasn’t delivered. Does that mean it has to be abolished? I don’t know. If you have a system that can be taken over by nationalists and used as a vehicle for separation, then I think it doesn’t fit the purpose or intention of what it’s for.
Next In Marketing interview
For the Next In Marketing podcast, Yaccarino discusses NBCUniversals’ ambitions for its video service Peacock, and why she’s convinced advertising will play a vital role in the streaming wars. She also breaks down how marketers have been responding to the Covid-driven economic slowdown and what she thinks that will mean for the future of the TV upfront model.
Future of Television fireside chat
Yaccarino is interviewed about the future of television, by NYWICI (New York Women in Communications, Inc) Immediate Past President Judith Harrison. The discussion includes section on workplace culture; diversity equity and education; and ‘doing well by doing good’.
Matrix Award winners’s advice
Yaccarino is interviewed for a profile on NYWICI Matrix Award winners. She empahsises the importance of diversifying skills.
Creative, technical, and interpersonal skills are important in our industry. But too often, people—and especially women—are reduced to one thing. So my advice is to build a skillset as multifaceted as you are. You must constantly broaden your mind, and refuse to stay in your lane. Stay curious and remain a lifetime student. Because I cannot stress this enough—turn to others around you for help and inspiration. We should rely on a lot of people: the trailblazers, mentors, peers who can we can listen to, learn from and form our own opinions.
Signal 2020 interview
Yaccarino is interviewed by Battelle about her role at NBCUniversal, the launch of Peacocks.
We have a huge diversity of brands, therefore a huge diversity of knowledge and access. In two really specific areas: We have an incredible purview of how consumers want to interact with us, and therefore we’re able to talk with marketers [like Proctor] about how they want to, or should be, maximising doing business with us.
The Information interview
Yaccarino is interviewd for The Information’s 2020 WTF Summit:
Every business has gone though such an incredible structural change that it’s very clear we need to change the way we do business. All of us. To transform our industries, as marketers, will help jump-start the economy. Marketing creates demand. Demand creates sales. Sales develops jobs. Therefore, it is almost a higher calling that marketers in every business come together to jump-start the economy.
Adexchangers Industry Preview
Yaccarino discusses NBCU’s plans for the year ahead, including how the company is measuring viewers across media.
If we measured viewers on televsion in terms of Super Bowls, Jimmy Fallon has about 34 Super Bowls every single night. So we have to stop and come together as an industry and stop talking about digital vs. TV, or us vs. them, so we can transact on something that delivers your business solution that makes sense.
Future of TV Advertising Conference fireside chat
Yaccarino particpates in a fireside chat at The Future of TV Advertising Global conference in London. where she discusses key NBCU innovations, including the impact of C-Flight, a ‘ground-breaking’ metric that acknowledges live, time-shifted and on-demand impressions on any screen; how OpenAP, cross-broadcaster, standardised data-set for audience buying, is going to change the lives of marketers; and the mini-revolution in ad-formats and creative opportunities that is currently underway at NBCU, including the use of AI to align advertiser messages with emotions and scenes inside shows.
‘I fell out of love with the game for a bit’
With less than a week to go before McGregor’s big return to MMA against Nurmagomedov at UFC 229, McGregor talks about his displeasure with the UFC over how they stripped him of his belts:
I fell out of love with the game for a bit, went off on to my own thing… Had many things going on. Now I’m back. I’m hungry to compete…Making weight, handling the media obligations. And that’s it…I spent my entire life’s work to win those two UFC world titles…Then as soon as I win the second world title…the featherweight title was taken off of me and handed back to a man that I had a crazy history with….And then like, what, about a month, a month or two, the lightweight belt is stripped from me also…So these kind of things irritate me. Especially seeing what way it goes, who the belts are given to, who the people are that are challenging the belts… Many things irritate me in the game, and just watching it unfold, I just became more hungry to come back and show who the real king is.
The Manc Meets interview
Aaron and James are interviewed by The Manc, for The Manc Meets interview series. On the Manchester scene:
AS: It’s good. In the early days it was tough, because there’s a big shadow you have to operate under. But now, with bands like The Blossoms, Cabbage and ourselves, breaking through and doing decent sized shows, there’s something happening again in the city.
JR: There’s loads of venues opening up now…The music scene’s good, but starting out, back in the day, sometimes it was hard to get away from that big, old Madchester scene. If you’re from Manchester because people will automatically think, “I’ll compare them to a Manchester band”.
MCR Live interview
Aaron and Kurt are interviewed for MCR Live about their upcoming acoustic album, For All Here To Observe. Aaron:
We’ve done a few radio sessions and acoustic stuff, as well as supporting James at Albert Hall at the end of last year. We figured we’d just get it recorded.
Kurt:
When we’ve done radio sessions before, me and Aaron normally turn up with an acoustic guitar and now and then we’ve had Jim on acoustic bass so we decided to mic up the drums and use brushes. It really gave the whole thing a different texture.
The National Interview
Mark is interviewed by The National, a daily newspaper in Scotland.
Our aim is to summarise all of the world’s news – past to present. We distribute our news through partners, such as social media fan pages and share advertising revenues with the page owners. People can sign up to be the next set of contributors. They tell us what they are interested in and we help them produce a timeline along the way. Anyone can come in for free and read the timeline or edit it…Facebook used to do a lot of news but now its model has changed where do people go for unbiased news? People can get a left-wing view in the Guardian and a right-wing view if they read the Telegraph but where is the unbiased reference point?
Nurmagomedov: ‘I want to change his face’
Nurmagomedov says he is ready to fight McGregor.
I can’t belive we are going to really want this guy. Make him humble. Tech him But not only smash, but change his face. Not only face, but also to change his mind too. Of course [it’s personal]…I am little happy he [got off] because if he go to jail how can I catch him?…I am relaxed. I know we are going to fight…If they say October: I am here, September: I am here.