Is the BBC’s culture of political correctness cracking? The Evening Standard reports a startlingly frank confession from one of the editors:
BBC commissioning editor for documentaries Richard Klein admitted the broadcaster was out of touch with the British public, saying it was guilty of “ignoring” mainstream opinion.
Speaking to a room full of TV viewers and BBC staff, he suggested that if the current situation continued it could affect the organisation’s long-term future.
Klein said: “By and large, people who work at the BBC think the same and it’s not the way the audience thinks. That’s not long term sustainable.”
“We pride ourselves on being ‘of the people’, and it’s pathetic…..”
Klein, who made his views known at an “audience festival” organised by the BBC last week to find out what its viewers think, admitted that the BBC’s liberal internal culture did not match that of the wider British public.
He said: “Most people at the BBC don’t live lives like this, but these are our licence payers. It’s our job to reflect and engage.”
Klein’s mea culpa comes on the heels of an “impartiality summit” the BBC didn’t want leaked to the public.
