Ethnic minorities are “largely absent” from opinion pages, senior management roles and staff works in the UK press, shows a new survey conducted by New Statesman Magazine, which was published on 11/01/2012.
According to the research, no national newspaper and political editors is non-white, indicating that the British media has a problem with racial discrimination.
Inspecting the comment pages of some selected newspapers published between December 5 and 11, the survey found that three newspapers did not even have a single non-white writer on their comment pages, including the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday, the Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph, and the Daily Express/Sunday Express.
“To coincide with a special report on race in the British media for this week's magazine, we have compiled shocking statistics which show ethnic minorities are still largely absent from opinion pages, senior executive roles and staff jobs in the media,” said the survey.
The magazine's chief political commentator Rafael Behr, raised the question whether the Westminster lobby could report fairly on issues related to race when they are “almost exclusively white, forty-something men”.
Expressing concerns over the research findings, the New Statesman's senior editor Mehdi Hasan said, “In 2012, 64 years after the arrival of the Empire Windrush on our shores, 36 years after the passage of the third Race Relations Act, 19 years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, the great British commentariat is, in effect, a mono-racial, monocultural closed shop.”
Inspecting the comment pages of some selected newspapers published between December 5 and 11, the survey found that three newspapers did not even have a single non-white writer on their comment pages, including the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday, the Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph, and the Daily Express/Sunday Express.
“To coincide with a special report on race in the British media for this week's magazine, we have compiled shocking statistics which show ethnic minorities are still largely absent from opinion pages, senior executive roles and staff jobs in the media,” said the survey.
The magazine's chief political commentator Rafael Behr, raised the question whether the Westminster lobby could report fairly on issues related to race when they are “almost exclusively white, forty-something men”.
Expressing concerns over the research findings, the New Statesman's senior editor Mehdi Hasan said, “In 2012, 64 years after the arrival of the Empire Windrush on our shores, 36 years after the passage of the third Race Relations Act, 19 years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, the great British commentariat is, in effect, a mono-racial, monocultural closed shop.”
The survey can be read here.
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