Not The Bbc Surely?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4886266/BBC-forced-publish-social-class-staff.html

[ladybirder]

Does this apply to ALL BBC staff or just to those whose faces we see on our screens?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit
/// the OFCOM report says
// the bbc and OTHER BROADCASTERS //, so to single out just the BBC is dishonest. ///

No it is not dishonest, I chose the BBC specifically because they are known and shown to be more PC than any of the other broadcasting companies.

[-Talbot-]

If we do want to play this percentage game then surely only 2 non white people should be allowed to attend the management Christmas lunch?

[Gromit]

// they are known and shown to be more PC than any of the other broadcasting companies. //

As read by you in the fake newssheet Daily Mail.
The OFCOM report is about other broadcasters too, so what you think you know is obviously wrong.

[anotheoldgit]

ladybirder

I don't know I have never seen the whole staff on parade, I can only judge on those that I can see on the screen.

[anotheoldgit]

Yer, if you say so Gromit.

[ladybirder]

AOG I was wondering if that was OfCom's intention or not but seems nobody knows.

[Gromit]

I am sure the Winchester and Oxford educated, white, old male, who is currently the BBCs Chairman, will have something to say about this report.

[THECORBYLOON]

If the BBC is so PC, why are minorities unde-represented?

[Gromit]

AOG, the figure which you undoubtly do not want to know, is that the number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff employed by the BBC is 2,405, an increase from 11.9% to 12.2%, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Broadcast magazine.

UK population has 14% BAME people, so the are actually UNDER represented, not over.

[albaqwerty]

I think under or over represented is subjective depending on there you're from. Predominantly white village?
The locals might have something to say about George or Clive reading the News. and probably something else to say about Chi-chi or Leeza or Ore or Naga.

How many are there in Britain? 60 million? How many are employed by broadcasters?
Any word about the ethnicity of newspaper journalists?
Storm in a tea-cup imo.
Don't care about colour of someone's skin, if they can do their job well, then so be it.

[youngmafbog]

Its the social class bit that I wonder about. Firstly does it really exist any more and if so what are the boundaries?

I suspect this is just more right on liberal PC nonsence and best ignored.

[-Talbot-]

UK population has 14% BAME people, so the are actually UNDER represented, not over.


I will never understand this ... seems as long as we get the white numbers down from within the BBC everything is hunky-dory.
Does anyone know what the percentage black people is at the BBC?
Does anyone know what the percentage of Asian people is at the BBC?

Why is is White or BAME?

[Gromit]

// Why is is White or BAME? //

It isn't, it is just what AOG wants to look at. In the OFCOM Report, they instead refer to not being representative of society. Which means a lot more than race, it means gender, education, wealth, and more.

[cassa333]

It's not social class nowadays. It's economic and educational.

I would have thought ((( warning, warning, this is an over generalisation but still relevant)))that those on the lower educational strata (reality 'stars' excepted) don't get in (it can be restrictively technical) and the lower economic strata are too busy making ends meet to be overly bothered with the arts.

So unless you have the wherewithal to be in 'the arts' it will remain the domain of 'not representative'.

However this is one of the few times I seem to agree with Eddie. Work out the % of representative and you'll have the right answer.

This sort of came up the other day in a thread about an advert. Was it John Lewis? I said exactly the same thing there as well. But target markets and % are not actually used much unless the target is a specific group. Otherwise it's a catch as many as you can job. To be representative they advert would have been targeted at mainly white femails with the odd minority thrown in for good measure. Whereas we are told via social media, media and advertising the country is so diverse that there is no such thing as a minority..... until the minority isn't happy with something.

[Stan-Marsh]

Too many Scottish accents at the BBC for my liking. The SNP have too much say on how it's run.

[mikey4444]

What class someone is in, is probably more evident from somebody else's point of view, rather than than you yourself.

I have been called upper class because I tend to refer to my evening meal as dinner rather than tea, which is petty in the extreme.

[Old_Geezer]

As a kid I used to have dinner at mid-day, tea in the evening. As an adult I have lunch mid-day, dinner in the evening. The difference is the type of meal. Previously the mid-day meal was the more substantial, meat and two veg maybe; the typical evening meal was sandwiches, cake, cup of tea. Now-a-days lunch is the lighter meal, evening the main one.

[EDDIE51]

Educational level has been mentioned as a parameter that should be used to access the diversity of BBC staff. Will there be a requirement to employ the correct quota of thickos and dimwits?

[EDDIE51]

^ If so how would they advertise the posts.
''If you can read this you are not suitable to work here''?