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BBC to Review Portrayal of Ethnic Minorities and Class

by Richard Eldred
30 May 2024 5:16 PM

The BBC is to investigate potential “groupthink” in its storylines during a review of how it portrays ethnic minorities and class. The Telegraph has the story.

The corporation has appointed two media experts to probe how accurately and authentically the broadcaster portrays different groups and communities across the U.K.

Anne Morrison, the former Bafta chairman, and Chris Banatvala, an independent media consultant, are to lead the review, which is to begin “in the coming days”, the BBC said.

It will cover television, radio and online content, as well as output from the Nations and English regions. The assessment is expected to consider whether “storylines represent a sufficiently broad and authentic range of perspectives or if there is evidence of groupthink”, the corporation said.

It will also attempt “where any imbalances in portrayal and representation are identified, to determine what causes them and how they might be addressed”.

The BBC has faced fierce backlash over impartiality issues, most notably after presenter Gary Lineker tweeted fierce criticism of the Government’s Rwanda policy. It has also come under fire for its reporting of the war in Gaza.

As part of the midterm review of the BBC’s charter, the board was ordered to tackle the corporation’s “groupthink” and ensure that its coverage represents all political views. …

The review will also examine results from the 2021/22 census, to establish how the portrayal and representation of the U.K. “reflects current reality in terms of the make-up of communities around the country and what the major changes have been over time”.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BBCGroupthinkImpartiality GuidelinesIsrael-Hamas WarMinoritiesRwanda

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago

Toby, you might mention to James that it seems likely that the primary role of the CIA in Turkish Earthquakes may have been in dreaming up and disseminating the crackpot ideas taken up by the Romanian lady MP and James himself as a false flag attempt to damage her, and his, credibility.

He might brush up on his knowledge of how earthquakes occur, with little doubt through tectonic plate movement, although even HMG and the UN has yet to declare that they “own The Settled Science” on seismology.

Without going on at great length, I should point out that his note about Tesla’s experimentation on resonant vibrations in buildings and structures, which he falsely blamed on “an earthquake” is pretty much the precise reverse of his nonsensical suggestion that a series of earthquakes on a known major fault line was triggered by a magic resonant vibration under the control of the CIA. (Whilst I would not dispute that the CIA might well do such a thing if it was feasible!)

He might also note that significant collapses of bridges had been caused by resonance of marching soldiers at least 50 years before Tesla, the cause of the collapse recognised (even if not entirely understood), and is the reason why soldiers are apparently told to ‘break step’ when crossing bridges today.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago

Gosh!

I made an awful mistake!

I do hope the super genius Leader of the Limp Dims, “Sir Potato” Ed Davey can forgive me!?!

Of course, Davey has a far better understanding of seismology than even the British Geological Survey. So he wisely imposed a limit of 0.1 Richter on Earthquakes caused by Fracking. That’s about the tremor you might experience if dropping an old telephone directory about a foot. Maybe. You’d need a well calibrated seismograph to measure it.

The Richter scale is logarithmic, so a tremor of 0.1, compared to the normal Richter measure of concern for mining, piling, quarrying, demolition work of 4.0, is 7,900 TIMES less energy. To match the most powerful recent quake in Turkey / Syria, you would need more than 50 million times as much energy as Davey’s limit. No wonder he boasted, whilst continuing to trouser £18,000 per year from a Solar Energy company for a few hours work, that he’d “effectively banned Fracking”.

Still, what’s 50 million of anything if it saves the good people of Lancashire the terrors of collapsing buildings? And leads us to yet more useless, eye wateringly expensive, unreliable energy?

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