Not doing what you propagate?

On Feb 2nd, BBC2 aired a documentary called Who gets the best jobs? Richard Bilton investigated the question of social mobility offering rich ones better jobs, by virtue of their existing privileges. In the process, he interviewed people from many professions. Typically, doyens from these fields gave their own views, some pro and some against the belief. He also met with some bright young students looking to get into professional jobs, and not belonging to privileged backgrounds. 


In all of this an unwitting man—Modus Publicity, director, Julian Vogel—exposed himself in a not very flattering manner. Whist he spoke about how his firm often hired interns from well off backgrounds (only adding to the debate of socially mobile class getting a chance at the good jobs), and failed to answer if that was his business model (to hire people as interns so as to not have to pay them), he seemed utterly blindsided by Mr Bilton. Of course, while the PR industry has been up in Twitter commenting about it, and posting their feelings, it seems shocking that someone in his position would let himself open to such an interview. But in his defense he says, his company isn't the only one to employ interns without paying them. Interesting question there!