{"id":195250,"date":"2019-09-24T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195250"},"modified":"2019-09-27T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:34:07","slug":"bbc-staff-are-twice-as-likely-to-have-gone-to-private-school-than-workers-in-other-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195250","title":{"rendered":"BBC staff are twice as likely to have gone to private school than workers in other industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Some 14% of BBC staff went to independent schools against 7% more widely<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Ofcom said more than six out of ten were raised in well-off professional families<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The BBC said: \u2018This is partial data that doesn\u2019t reflect the whole of the BBC&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ofcom said findings were based on information from 8,370 BBC employees<\/span> <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Daily Mail \u2013 Sept 19, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBC-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-134005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBC-London.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBC-London.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/BBC-London-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Staff at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/bbc\/index.html\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a><\/span> are twice as likely to have been privately-educated as the rest of the population, a watchdog report said yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some 14 per cent of the BBC\u2019s workforce went to independent schools, against 7 per cent more widely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The analysis by the Ofcom media regulator also said more than six out of ten BBC staff were brought up in well-off professional families \u2013 again nearly twice the share of people from the best-educated and best-paid backgrounds found among the population as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The BBC and Viacom, which owns Channel 5 among other stations, were the only two broadcasters to give Ofcom details of the schooling of its staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ofcom chief Sharon White said: \u2018We want a TV industry where differences are celebrated, and the door is open to all.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Ofcom breakdown found lesbians, gays and bisexuals were well represented in TV \u2013 7 per cent of BBC employees say they are lesbian, gay or bisexual, against 2 per cent of the wider population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The BBC said: \u2018This is partial data that doesn\u2019t reflect the whole of the BBC. Overall more than 80 per cent of our workforce and 75 per cent of our leaders were educated in state schools, and the BBC is more diverse than it has ever been.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ofcom said its findings were based on information from 8,370 BBC employees \u2013 60 per cent of all its staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7479679\/BBC-staff-twice-likely-gone-private-school-new-Ofcom-research-suggests.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are also THREE TIMES more likely to be lesbian, gay or bisexual than the wider population<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":134106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195253,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195250\/revisions\/195253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}