We are PC, BBC finally admits

The BBC has reportedly admitted its reputation for institutionalised political correctness:

The Mail On Sunday

The BBC belongs to the entire nation and as such has a responsibility to represent each and every one of us, regardless of race, sexuality or religion, and to be politically and religiously neutral at all times. Positive discrimination? No such thing in my book. To favour minority groups at the expense of the majority is as bad as the reverse situation and, if anything, risks tokenising audiences from the minorities.

What gives Auntie the right to decide one man's holy book is of more value than someone else's? BBC1 has just binned a ridiculously PC set of idents but the New Labour-friendly thinking continues elsewhere. In the soap Doctors, for example, the practice receptionist (a white Brummie woman) is encouraging the other staff to prepare for Diwali, as opposed to Bonfire night.

The question is, what is to be done about it? To say things have gone too far to be changed is one almighty cop-out.

You don't seriously think the governing party determines the colour of the BBC's flagship channel do you?

Mind you I've always wondered. Look at BBC News. It was blue during the tory years, then changed to red not long after Tony Blair became PM.

The governing party may not influence the colour of BBC1, but it sure as hell is influencing what messages are conveyed in BBC programmes, particularly those for children. And let's not forget Mark Thompson's appointment as DG was with full approval of Tessa Jowell.

And yet programmes like Mock the Week still air, glad they do though, just shows how farcical PC in this country has become.

Yes, but BBC News is awfuly biased towards Labour, and PC. Sky seem the most neutral out the lot supprisingly!

I will agree with you that the BBC can at least laugh at itself. Dead Ringers always goes for the jugular with the BBC (ie. how they lampooned Fame Academy) whereas 2DTV never did the same for ITV.

Wouldn't the titles look good and sunny in a brilliant-orange ?!

I say we shouldn't have any brown faces on the BBC.

Behold! My fan club has arrived...

This is BBC One in (the North West), at one o'clock the Labour appreciation society show(the news), with Fiona Bruce, (with/without cross necklace) and your local labour candidates (news team).

[luxto n]Finally they admitted it, the leftie sandal-wearing pinkos! Let us bring back TV for the white middle-class heterosexual person with christian values within the age range of 25 to 60, majority rule and all hm? Forget all these other minority groups, they're not us ! Where's my rotating globe with added parallax mirror?[/luxto n]

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I was going to come up with an anti-Mail rant earlier but really couldn't be bothered -- except to say, why is it that it's always the Mail that comes up with these stories? Anyone would think they had an agenda or something?

Have to say though the red-blue-red cycle of BBC News's sets seems to be valid. ISTR that in the '70s, BBC News's titles were an orangey-red colour, then they switched to blue soon after Mags came in. Then they were blue for years, finally changing to the reddish colour they are now roughly when Bliar came in. Coincidence?