White Britons made up a third of BBC trainee journalists taken on its flagship scheme between 2022 and 2024, The Telegraph can reveal.
Since 2022, 35.90 per cent of the participants in the scheme were categorised as “majority white”. These are individuals who are part of white groups that are in the majority of the population according to the BBC’s definition and identify as white British, English, Northern Irish, Scottish or Welsh.
Individuals from British, Asian, Minority, and Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds made up 41.03 per cent.
There are two ways to think about this. One is not nice, the other is simply obvious.
So, the racial – or are we supposed to say ethnic these days? – breakdown in London is wildly different from that in hte rest of the country. Without looking it up that 35% Briton and 41% BAME looks about right for London – about, you understand – as against 83$ (??) Briton and 17% for the country as a whole. Again, around and about.
A few years back some of the race grifters started to advance a specific argument. Sure, so, the BBC, the media in general, had a BAME component of around the national. But that wasn’t good enough, d’ye see? For most to many of those entering the media do so from London. Therefore the national media should represent London’s weightings, not national.
This is why shows like Vera – set in the NE, one of the whitest areas of the nations, about 2% or less BAME, has quite such a jarring, to those who know the area, number of BAME actors. The people doing the casting down in London can;t believe, don’t even conceive of, the proportions there.
At which point, the not nice explanation. The race grifters have had their way and that hiring is deliberately weighted to London proportions and the rest of the country can bugger off. Or, we’ve that obvious one, the media really does hire from Londoners and as that’s the proportion there then that’s what we get in the media.
Up to you which one you want to go with……
I went with “cancel my TV license”.
What is this ‘BBC’ you speak of?
Judging by the amount of music of hers they play, the only 20th Century composer of note was Florence Price.
ps They have completely buggered up the schedules for Radio3
Again.
Presumably the agencies supplying actors for commercials recruit from a similar Neverland of mixed race families and alphabet soup couples?
@Steve
+1000 Everybody can, and everybody should!
The BBC is based, and its “spiritual” home is the degenerate third world midden which still retains the name “london”, a rabid Hyde to the Jeckyll that was London.
If the BBC bases its recruitment on this cesspit, then its (de) composition and infantile, bigoted, lying garbage output is as one would expect.
Outside “london” I don’t really know. What are the statistics for, say, local radio (which is actually dying on it’s arse as far as I understand) or TV?
Do they retain the same ethnic makeup? They could if they really wanted to, although the pool of wondrous “diverse” talent and creativity clearly isn’t quite as wondrous and creative outside.
Do the local recruiters have to keep to the obvious dictats of the wakanda HQ or do they ignore it?
Just asking though in case anybody actually knows (although I suspect the latter).
A pox (all known poxes preferably) on the BBC.
Mrs Grist was quite fond of Vera (the TV series, I hasten to add) but I always found it sad and hilarious that all these Jamaican or Indian ethnics had made it north to become senior plod…
“Up to you which one you want to go with……”
Neither. I think they are rubbing our noses in it to show what gammony racist bigots we are. The motivation is similar to those big hairy blokes who doll up as lay-deez and then become hypervigilant for signs of non-acceptance.
Race is unimportant; until it is….
Watched an old, well late middle aged, ‘detective’ drama last night. White single mother, mixed race adopted boy. From a time when Social Workers were refusing to inflict white parents on black adoptees!
What proportion of BBC licence-payers is ‘majority white”?
@Lockers
If you want to know what BBC means why not Google it? Oh, wait . . .
The ones that pay it.
Mark – A pox (all known poxes preferably) on the BBC.
I sincerely hope they’re all triple vaxxed and boostered.
Among the many charges one might lay on the Scotnaz party is that it had a glorious chance to show how a very white part of Britain could thrive and it completely buggered it up.
it had a glorious chance to show how a very white part of Britain could thrive
We already had that until 1997, it was called “Britain”.
I have net zero interest in watching anything the Blacked Broadcasting Corporation cares to produce, but good luck to them in sending TV Licensing inspectors to Bradford and Tottenham.
Someone told me about a bog standard london degree mill. You will experience 70% and upwards BAME. The uni politics elections will be dominated by the African Soc and the Muslim soc, who will run for control the Union. Labour students will be minority but get some posts and they tend to be the political careerists. Conservatives? Ha who dey?
The advert thing is not the result of BAME prevalence in London, it is evidently a requirement by the ASA, either overt or tacit, I don’t know. They could manage the proportions without all the mixed-race marriages and magically heritage-free kids if it was not a rule.
I sometimes wonder what the rest of us need the inner cities for. They produce little but resentment and truculence, poverty and crime.
The Telegraph ignores the obvious explanation.
Many young people have realised that journalism is a bit of a shit job, with limited pay and the likelihood of having to rub shoulders – or worse – with the likes of Huw Edwards or Jimmy Savile.
And some young people haven’t.
Rhoda – I sometimes wonder what the rest of us need the inner cities for
We don’t need them at all. Cities are full of useless mouths and sexually confused girly men who want to take away your food and electricity.
Genghis Khan knew how to deal with urbanites. WWGD?
>Individuals from British, Asian, Minority, and Ethnic (BAME)
Since when does the ‘B’ in ‘BAME’ stand for British? How does that make any sense. I thought it stood for ‘Black, Asian, Middle Eastern’.
In fact, none of that makes sense – Ethnic? Asian? *and* Minority?
BAME
Black. Asian , Minority Ethnic
ME, a catch all term for those who don’t normally count or count themselves in ( eg Chinese ) I bet Jews aren’t included
Did I see it right? A black, queer Doctor Who? I must admit I stopped watching when they got rid of David Tennant and employed Matt Smith, but this new one is just another attempt by the wokerati to rub our noses in diversity.