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March 3, 2008
BBC Spends Fortune on Ethnic Recruiting
Posted by Dave Blount at March 3, 2008 7:00 AM
It's a good thing for the BBC that it's financed by a coercive license fee. Otherwise it would be unlikely to stay solvent doing business like this:
The BBC has sparked controversy by spending £750,000 of licence fee cash on coaching ethnic minority staff into top jobs. […T]he new mentoring scheme has been condemned as "politically correct" positive discrimination which will create resentment amongst staff. They are also bemused how the corporation can afford to spend £750,000 on the three year scheme when it is axing up to 1,800 jobs.
BBC plans will see half of the 30 places a year on the new scheme ring-fenced for staff from ethnic backgrounds. A further six each year will be handed to disabled applicants, with nine places remaining annually open to people from any background.
Nine people can be ethnic English and not crippled and still get a promotion. How very open-minded of the Beeb, whose workforce was described by former director general Greg Dyke as "hideously white."
If you think the BBC has a pro-Islam, anti-West slant now, wait until it manages to weed non-Muslims out of management positions in order to be "diverse."
On a tip from Essemess.
