[Swprograms] Re: British accents out at BBC World Service

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

> It's all change at the BBC World Service where a new policy of introducing
> "younger fresher voices" has begun to enrage regular listeners.
> 
> British accents apparently are no longer popular apparently and one reporter
> who did not fit the bill was sacked by telephone.
> 
	And then we had the pathetic and incompetent
	Daniel Lack on BBCWS, from Pakistan by way of
	BBC R1?4? regional with his flat Canadian
	accent outraging local Brits.
	He was caught spying in northern India before
	the BBC gave him a cover later.

	As long as they are clear and know what they
	are doing we don't mind.  Canada has had a long
	history of mild accents doing the news etc.
	on our radios.

> The same approach is being rolled out at Radio Four where younger reporters
> are being sought and producers have been told to focus on black and ethnic
> voices in the latest programme offers round.
> 
> (Media News, Private Eye, March 4th)

	Ah, P-Eye.  The way of revenge for the powerless
	in a media corporation.

	As it is, Bectu, (the BBWS trade union), is having
	its hands full with the current staffs.
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