If there is anything worse in the world than the BBC it is Ofcom, which seeks to help regulate the BBC! I was talking to James Whale about this story last night…
The BBC is “falling short” on serving older women and minority communities, the head of Ofcom has said. Media watchdog chief Sharon White said the corporation is “not doing as good a job as it should be” in these areas. “There is a gap there and it is a gap I would like to see closed over time,” she told the Financial Times.
A BBC spokesman said: “We don’t think any broadcaster does better in representing older women than the BBC.”
Here we have Ofcom actually encouraging the BBC to discriminate in favour of preferred groups, in this case older women and ethnic groups. As if the BBC does not already overly pander to these areas. Surely the person to get the job should be the best person based on their ability to do the job? I oppose discrimination on any grounds but it appears Ofcom, and now the BBC, will happily discriminate to ensure that Ms White’s wish is granted. Pathetic.
Not to go off on a tangent, but for those still hoping the Useless Tories will do anything about the BBC, it’s worth pointing out that Shakedown Sharon was first appointed by the One-Eyed Destroyer from Fife but is still, two election defeats later, hanging on in there telling us what the public want.
It is depressing to review the sad collection of heads of certain institutions in theory there to represent the public when in fact they are clearly placemen, women or others to seal various agendas with a false turd-polishing impression of oversight.
Patten, Fairhead, Smith, her predecessor, who was besets best buds with one Purnell. J…
And all installed by the government of the day.
I agree with you, David, as I’m sure most normal people would. The question is what can be done to normalise the behaviour of people in power and influence so we as a country return to the path of sanity and commonsense?
Narrative and truth are different things
What’s the FT report say, is it hard data or soft data ?
** Felt = soft data
** NO EMPIRICAL DATA just opinion
If people “feel” then it could be that their view of the UK is not accurate
e.g. cos of their own life bubble of living in a London ghetto etc.
(Sharon White is black woman of course)
My bubble : BTW there are 250,000 people in North Lincolnshire but I’ve never heard the local accent on any national programming. I fell my community has zero representation on National networks.
I too live in lincolnshire and suffer imagined injustice and anxiety due to a lack of local accents… Recently when filling out a census form I noticed that there wasn`t even a box for Lincolnhire cultural ethnic minority groups… I had to add one myself and then place a tick inside it… I live in North East lincolnshire myself, and I don`t even have a bubble…
BBC has extreme bias against NE Lincolnshire : The fine man of Science Quentin Cooper had his balanced science prog, and the Beeboids turned up and replaced it with a compliant GRombie who puts a Green Religion item into almost every episode.
..At least you have BBC staff working in NE Lincolnshire …There’s none in N Lincolnshire at all.
I have just read the front page headlines in the SUN newspaper referring to £200 million a year wasted on health tourism in the NHS. Personally I thought this was main news worthy, but sadly not, it was not shown or mentioned on the BBC.
Probably because the BBC is, as ever, supporting the health unions in their brazenly open internationalist/redistributionist political stance on this: ‘We’re not going to act as the government’s border guards’.
I’d settle for the government’s border guards acting as government border guards.
A Brexit supporting majority is a fact, but not a majority reflected on the BBC.
My experience is that the majority of my Family, Scientists, Mensa members and people in Yorkshire, supported Brexit. But the BBC gives out the impression that my Family, Scientists, Mensa members and people in Yorkshire are inferior to people employed by the BBC in Salford and London. But the W1A morons are proven to be morons who sack Mensa members, censor scientists, don’t like to employ Yorkshire folk because they talk a Politically Incorrect talk, and no one in my family was stupid enough to go down to London to study a dumbed down degree in Media studies leading to a job with the BBC.