Incorrect British TV dramas
You cannot portray what you want to portray in Britain:
"Broadcasters are failing to reflect ethnic diversity in the nation's favourite television programmes, according to a report out today. Shows including EastEnders, Coronation Street, The Vicar of Dibley and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? were accused of stereotyping ethnic minorities in the report commissioned by Channel 4. It concluded that today's "overwhelmingly white" broadcasters produced more specialist ethnic programmes in the past.
The report cited Asian corner shop owner Dev in Coronation Street and black single mother Denise, who had two children by two fathers in EastEnders, as examples of stereotyping and tokenism in soaps.
The study, by Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, was commissioned after the allegedly racist abuse of Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star, on last year's Celebrity Big Brother. It calls for a financial levy on every TV show to fund schemes aimed at fostering diversity.
Most white viewers said that broadcasters were doing a good job, but black and Asian ethnic groups did not agree. The report also found that Eastern Europeans, as relative newcomers to Britain, had no expectations of being represented.
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6 comments:
Typical leftist thinking - market forces and consumer desires be damned, you'll watch what we tell you!
Oh brother, us normal thinking people need to pool our money, buy a huge island and start our own "normal" civillization
I love the last part. People from Europe didn't expect to be represented on TV. But only the people who are 'special' are requesting it. Love it!!!!
Sorry one more question, who are they including in the Asia group? Would Mooslims be part of the Asians?
Most networks make TV shows that do reflect minorities. The trouble is that way too many of them use cultural references that only minorities get. So the show gets cancelled since no one else is watching the show.
Mobius
This sounds like something that came from the mouth of the "very gay" Arch Bishop of Canterbury, (or whatever he calls himself) who recentle said Britain is not muslim enough! It's becoming very clear that Britain can be excluded from the "ever shrinking" list of free countries.
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