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To work at the BBC you have to be gay, black AND/OR a woman

Written by Martin Belam
Published 3 October, 2005
Categories: BBC, Media

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And thus with one quote in The Sun Rik Mayall finally disabuses me of the notion that I was going to somehow leap from my current new media world into the murky world of TV. *Sigh*.

Just one thing though - the quote in the article is "You have to be black, homosexual and a woman to work at the BBC" yet the headline is "To work at BBC you have to be gay, black or a woman". Maybe it is just the advanced search nerd in me, but surely the difference between AND/OR in those sentences changes the meaning considerably?

Posted by Martin Belam, October 3, 2005
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Mina commented on October 4, 2005:

I wonder how Rik managed to work on more than one show for the BBC for all those years, being none of the above? The Young Ones, Filthy Rich and Catflap, Bottom, Jackanory, Blackadder, Shoebox Zoo to name but a very few. And I wonder how much his comments against the BBC are due to his new (and rather pants) ITV show?

Maybe the thought of there being women who were not only black but gay as well was considered rather too much for Sun headline readers.

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