Has the BBC been taking diversity hiring tips from the RAF? Leaked emails released last week showed RAF officials urging the recruitment of fewer ‘useless white male pilots’. Now it appears BBC 5 Live might be just as done with white men.
Steerpike notes a tweet from Rick Edwards, co-presenter of the radio station’s breakfast programme, calling for applicants to a paid placement scheme:
‘You definitely do NOT need to be an Oxbridge-educated white man to apply,’ he writes. ‘We’ve got plenty of them.’
If Edwards is worried about diversity at 5 Live, there is one member of the breakfast team he might persuade to step aside in favour of a more representative replacement. The broadcaster Mr Steerpike has in mind is white, male and a graduate of Cambridge. His name? Rick Edwards.
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