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Race & Ethnicity

muriel_volestrangler

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1. BBC reverses decision on Naga Munchetty complaint

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2019, 03:53 PM

Sep 2019

The BBC's director general Lord Hall has reversed a decision to partially uphold a complaint against Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty.

He told staff that Munchetty's words were not "sufficient to merit a partial uphold" of the complaint against her.
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On Monday, the director general reiterated that "racism is racism and the BBC is not impartial on the topic".

The reversal of the decision comes after dozens of black actors and broadcasters called on the BBC to overturn its decision.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49883952

The attempts to explain the complaints unit's decision never made sense. As far as I can tell, they were interpreting "impartial" to mean "you must never criticise any politician, even a foreign one, even when they say something we agree is racist".

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