BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake has said an overwhelmingly “white” working environment is affecting his mental health.
The presenter told a journalism diversity conference on Wednesday: “It’s really affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people.”
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“I’ve seen a lot of people leave this building because they couldn’t deal with the culture.”
He also said others found they had to try to be a certain type of person to progress with the broadcaster, adding: “If you want journalists to progress, they have to be who they are.”
“I don’t think there’s a single Muslim involved in the senior editorial processes” at BBC Radio 5 Live, he added.
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Arthanayake added that he has noticed a difference since moving north after living in London for 20 years.
He said: “Since moving up here, being called the p-word – that didn’t happen in London. You’d get a slap for that in London, not even from me.”
Megyn Kelly lambasted a group of White House interns as “a bunch of brats” after they penned an anonymous letter demanding that President Biden call for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza.
“The White House interns now — more than 40 of them — are demanding a cease-fire in the Middle East,” Kelly said as she chuckled in disbelief during an episode of her SiriusXM podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
The letter, addressed to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, was initially obtained by NBC News and accused the president and veep of having “ignored” the “pleas of the American people.”
Kelly blasted the note as “absolutely disgusting, entitled conduct.”
“This is what these lunatic leftists have wrought,” she said. “You are now having interns demand things of the president of the United States, who has been good enough to give them a position in the White House,” added Kelly in the episode released Wednesday ahead of her appearance in the moderation chair at the fourth GOP debate later in the day.
“We, the undersigned Fall 2023 White House and Executive Office of the President interns, will no longer remain silent on the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people,” the interns wrote in the letter.
“We heed the voices of the American people and call on the Administration to demand a permanent cease-fire,” they added. “We are not the decision makers of today, but we aspire to be the leaders of tomorrow, and we will never forget how the pleas of the American people have been heard and thus far, ignored.”
Despite criticizing Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, the White House interns assured that they wanted to work for this administration because of “our shared values and the profound belief that, under your leadership, America has the potential to be a nation that stands for justice and peace.”
Upon signing off, the interns only identified themselves as “Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Black, Asian, Latine, White and Queer.”
Representatives from the White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Last month, more than 500 political appointees and staff members representing some 40 government agencies also sent a letter to Biden protesting his Israel policy — and also opted to remain anonymous.
Senate Judiciary Committee member John Kennedy, R-La., sounded off on seeming White House inaction against an adversarial joint letter from White House interns demanding a "permanent cease-fire" in Gaza and saying that they won't forget "the pleas of the American people."
Kennedy told "Hannity" it took gall for the interns to "leak" the letter to NBC News and simultaneously dare their employer to react.
"Probably the White House will do nothing about it, just like they have done very little to deter our enemies throughout the world," Kennedy said.
He lamented an ideological shift among such youth, saying that there is a new, contradictory tenet to "DEI."
Kennedy also presented a characteristically pithy way he would handle the situation if he were President Biden.
"I would call all of my interns in and tell them I'm sorry they're upset — they should go buy an emotional-support pony, but they're fired."
Briahna Joy Gray and Amber Athey discuss the canceling of Mehdi Hasan's show on MSNBC. #mediamattershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtSplO9L--M
MSNBC is cancelling Mehdi Hasan's weekend show, and his daily show on their streaming network. I discuss other changes MSNBC is making and what may be behind this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm261TUe5us
Yara Jamal, a former journalist at CTV News Atlantic, is speaking out after she was fired for expressing her thoughts about the conflict in supporting a one-state democratic solution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de8N8FrwITI
Also shown and discussed is a talk between Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim and Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi agreeing on a one-state solution.
Human Rights lawyer Noura Erakat reveals what we know really happened on October 7 which we're not allowed to say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUdjI3rAUg
00:00:00 irresponsibly linking October 7 to Holocaust
00:01:20 what ACTUALLY happened on October 7
00:02:06 the bodies found
00:02:23 why we're not allowed to discuss what really happened
00:03:00 what is Hamas and why were they formed?
00:04:40 Hamas' charter
00:04:50 Hamas NOT Isis
00:06:50 Hamas is Israel's partner
00:07:53 why won't Israel negotiate?
00:09:30 why Netanyahu needs to extend genocide to save political life
00:10:00 "unique opportunity" for Israel
00:10:50 how could people be shocked by October 7?
00:12:00 colonialism is violence and breeds violence
00:12:30 apartheid consensus
00:13:51 Palestinian fractures
00:15:30 The Dahiya doctrine
00:16:40 Biden's 40 baby lie
00:17:05 Biden is being politically self-destructive
CRUX is your daily video news guide to the big events that are shaping our world. We track news, geopolitics, diplomacy and defence strategies and explain how they shape national policies. Crux makes sense of global developments, and analyses their impact on daily lives.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKtD-iPOUU
BBC journalists have criticised the broadcaster over its skewed coverage of Israel’s war on Palestine’s Gaza, accusing the platform of “pro-Israel bias” in a letter sent to Al Jazeera.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SyIbGkEZzg