I'm a fan of Moyles so you can already guess how my post is going to go, but I want to keep my post as objective as possible.
It's interesting how Moyles' "marmite" personality polarises opinions about what he says/does. I wonder if people would have the same "shut up you overpaid whinger" viewpoint if it was, say, Michael Parkinson (or anyone else whom very few people would take objection to) who hadn't been paid for 2 months. This is not a dig at anyone, it's a genuine thought.
And it takes him 2 months to realise he hasn't been paid???
I doubt that. There wouldn't be much point in him ranting on-air if his pay was late by only a few days. That does happen to a lot of us, so it's nothing unusual. 2 months' late
is fairly unusual.
tbf, he always spends the first half hour of his show talking, either with the team or ranting. It just so happened that it was a major rant this morning. The article made it sound wrong.
No change there then!
The media (and newpapers especially) will usually twist a story to stir up the most anger among their readership.
i'm not the only one then...
'oooh i've not been paid for talking carp on the radio' i mean, really, does he actually think he's the only person this has ever happened to, he knows he will get paid, and he obviously isnt that badly off is he..?...
i can deal with the sort of 'nuts/loaded' stuff, but i've found him to be nasty and vindictive which makes me sick........... sort of like steve wright but a bully..
I found Chris
Evans to be a bully. I remember a particular time when he was goading a female co-presenter (newsreader or similar) on-air to say whether she was getting "moist" or not. Not surprisingly she was getting very uncomfortable about it and tried to deflect the conversation, but Evans persisted.
If someone dips in and out of the show, they'd probably find Moyles' comments often bullying and sometimes homophobic (digs at Aled). I find them to be neither, but maybe that's because I've got several years' worth of background/context of what he says.
He's a radio DJ so he'd naturally sound-off on air about his issues. A builder would moan to his mates on the building site, and a GP would moan to his colleagues in the surgery. You could argue that Moyles should keep his whinging to his colleagues and keep it off-air (in the same way that a GP shouldn't whinge with his patients), but that's the nature of the job Moyles does. He's paid to talk about what he gets up to, and that can include the bad bits.
I find Moyles to be the only genuine DJ on the radio at the moment. By that I mean he really means what he says. Almost all the other DJs (including the other Radio 1 ones) don't seem to mean it: they have a spray-on "safe/happy/politically-correct" personality which they apply before going on-air, which then gets removed when they're off-air. The harshest thing that seems to happen to other DJs is when their young son/daughter gets chicken pox, or their dog needs to go for a course of injections. Otherwise they keep up the pretence that their lives are happy and smiley.
Life isn't always nice: sometimes it sucks arse, a lot of arse. I find listening to Moyles' moanings quite refreshing and above all,
realistic.
Many people have a problem with Moyles' rant because he's paid so much. Is there a cut-off point of pay beyond which your employer is allowed to not bother to pay you on time? How many people have worked for a large, financially-secure company and gone for 2 months without pay? If it's an invoice that's late rather than a salary payment that's slightly different, but 2 months is still a long time to go without being paid. We don't know how much cash Moyles has in the bank at the end of the month after all his bills have gone out. Maybe he has a large mortgage, who knows? If you're trying to service a £2m mortgage (not hard to imagine in London), you'd notice not being paid for 2 months, even if you're on £500k a year.
A lot of people read what they see in the papers, but don't read past the "motormouth Chris Moyles" and "£500k a year" bits.
