Why does the BBC care so much more about diversity than viewers’ complaints over sex and violence?
by Bel Mooney, Mailonline:
The BBC has always prided itself on fairness. Even-handed neutrality is required of reporters and political commentators.
That’s why the term ‘Reithian values’ has become a byword for the finest public service broadcasting, because the first director-general, John Reith, believed the BBC’s role was to ‘inform, educate and entertain’.
Please note, he did not intend the great institution — which we all pay for and therefore have a stake in — to be an agent of change, still less revolution. Social engineering has never been a part of its charter.
So what are those of us who care deeply about the BBC to make of the bizarre propaganda (disguised as idealism) uttered by the BBC’s Head of Diversity, Tunde Ogungbesan?
A survey of BBC staff has revealed that 417 of them are transgender — with 11 per cent identifying broadly as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
This compares with only 2 per cent in the UK population as a whole. But it’s not enough for Mr Ogungbesan.
[…] This agenda seems to be consuming the entire British Broadcasting Corporation and driving its desire to change ‘thought processes’ and to shape its programmes accordingly.
Yet those who question politically correct fashions and the social engineering agenda of people such as the BBC’s Head of Diversity are sneered at and dismissed.
Is this fair? Is this neutral? Of course not.
Please pay attention to us, too! Because the world we wish our children and grandchildren to inherit is being changed irrevocably by those with a rather different mindset to the silent majority — who just happen to pay the wages of the activists at the BBC.
The ‘journey’ of people such as Mr Ogungbesan has no map, and leads we know not where.
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