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A female journalist was shocked to discover she wasn\u2019t getting paid for a discussion about equality in the media \u2013 but her male counterpart was.<\/p>\n
Moya Lothian-McLean, a contributing editor at Novara Media, and GB News contributor Connor Tomlinson were invited on Sky News on Wednesday (September 27) following Laurence Fox\u2019s misogynistic rant about Ava Evans.<\/p>\n
The two journalists were debating the state of the broadcasting landscape after Fox was suspended from GB News after making a string of vile comments about Evans, a political correspondent for Joe, including: \u2018Who would want to shag that?\u2019<\/p>\n
While despairing over the treatment of women in the media and more broadly in society, Moya said she was \u2018exhausted\u2019 having to constantly explain sexism before she was interrupted by Connor, who remarked: \u2018I\u2019m sorry you\u2019re so exhausted to be paid to go on air.\u2019<\/p>\n
Moya replied she had not been given a fee for the Sky News appearance and had agreed to participate in the panel to raise awareness about deeply entrenched misogyny and the \u2018degradation of women in public life.\u2019<\/p>\n
It then dawned on Moya that Connor was being paid for a debate during which he argued the pay gap was a myth: \u2018I\u2019m not getting paid for this. Are you getting paid for this?\u2019<\/p>\n
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Pointing out the hypocrisy later on X, formerly known as Twitter, Moya wrote: \u2018Sorry I\u2019ve just clocked \u2013 the man who was arguing society isn\u2019t structurally unequal for women was getting paid to appear in a \u2018debate\u2019 about misogyny and I wasn\u2019t\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n
Moya later wrote she had confirmed Connor had been offered a fee to appear on Sky News and had demanded the same amount, which she would be donating to Beyond Equality, an organisation that runs programmes educating young men on rejecting patriarchal culture in favour of positive masculinity.<\/p>\n
It comes after Evans, who said she was left feeling \u2018really hurt\u2019 by Fox\u2019s tirade and that he made comments about her body rather than her work, revealed she had received threats online. <\/p>\n
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\u2018Just before we came in here, there was a tweet that said \u201cwatch your back\u201d.<\/p>\n