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Emily Maitlis Named as Lead Presenter of Newsnight

Emma Barnett Also Joins the Line Up (March 2019)

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Inspector Sands
all_night posted:

Very Happy Feel free to engage properly why my post deserves a roll eye.

I refer you to the post above mine. 'Newsroom' says it all really.


It does seem these days that whenever a woman is given a job at the BBC that it's somehow just to fill a quota or tick boxes rather than because they are good at it. Women make up half the population, having one present a TV programme isn't a statistical anomoly
SL
Shaun Linden
Inspector Sands posted:
all_night posted:

Very Happy Feel free to engage properly why my post deserves a roll eye.

I refer you to the post above mine. 'Newsroom' says it all really.


It does seem these days that whenever a woman is given a job at the BBC that it's somehow just to fill a quota or tick boxes rather than because they are good at it. Women make up half the population, having one present a TV programme isn't a statistical anomoly


Well when the BBC are well known for having quotas and tick boxes it's a reasonable assumption. To now have an all female lead just smack of the BBC going overboard. If anything I'd have preferred Emily to have got the Question Time gig.
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Steve in Pudsey
But you can't say they any of those mentioned aren't getting the gig on merit? All very established journalists and interviewers.
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Cando
all_night posted:


Well when the BBC are well known for having quotas and tick boxes it's a reasonable assumption. To now have an all female lead just smack of the BBC going overboard.


Is there any Daily Mail cliches left in your cupboard?
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WW Update
all_night posted:
To now have an all female lead just smack of the BBC going overboard.


So the BBC never had any all-male leads?
SL
Shaun Linden
WW Update posted:
all_night posted:
To now have an all female lead just smack of the BBC going overboard.


So the BBC never had any all-male leads?


They have, but that's not what I'm saying. Years gone by the broadcast landscape has always favoured men. It seems rather than establishing the right balance, the knee jerk reaction is to just exclude a man as an option.
SL
Shaun Linden
Cando posted:
all_night posted:


Well when the BBC are well known for having quotas and tick boxes it's a reasonable assumption. To now have an all female lead just smack of the BBC going overboard.


Is there any Daily Mail cliches left in your cupboard?


Well if that's not true, then let me know with facts rather than a childish insult. I've never bought the Daily Mail in my life. It's typical of today's world though to just react with sarcastic and bitchy comments rather than engage like we used to.
SL
Shaun Linden
Steve in Pudsey posted:
But you can't say they any of those mentioned aren't getting the gig on merit? All very established journalists and interviewers.


You are right, i can't say that and haven't said that. Emily is a great choice and was obvious natural to being the lead following Evan's departure. My point is why bolster that with Emma and then as the article does, boast about an all-female line-up.
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Inspector Sands
all_night posted:
If anything I'd have preferred Emily to have got the Question Time gig.

Not to demean Fiona Bruce but Emily would be wasted doing that. Probably bored out of her mind too
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Brekkie
all_night posted:
You are right, i can't say that and haven't said that. Emily is a great choice and was obvious natural to being the lead following Evan's departure. My point is why bolster that with Emma and then as the article does, boast about an all-female line-up.

Why not?
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Shaun Linden
Brekkie posted:
all_night posted:
You are right, i can't say that and haven't said that. Emily is a great choice and was obvious natural to being the lead following Evan's departure. My point is why bolster that with Emma and then as the article does, boast about an all-female line-up.

Why not?


Because it plays into what I've said before in posts earlier. I hope that all candidates were looked at fairly and it wasn't a vision that 'we must have an all female line up.'
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Worzel
all_night posted:
Brekkie posted:
all_night posted:
You are right, i can't say that and haven't said that. Emily is a great choice and was obvious natural to being the lead following Evan's departure. My point is why bolster that with Emma and then as the article does, boast about an all-female line-up.

Why not?


Because it plays into what I've said before in posts earlier. I hope that all candidates were looked at fairly and it wasn't a vision that 'we must have an all female line up.'


BBC, championing equality only when it suits. I'm all for diversity and seeing a range of faces but this strikes me as a tick box marketing excercise at best.

I hope we don't end up with Victoria Derbyshire Late!

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