‘The white working class feels alienated, threatened and voiceless,’ says BBC boss
The white working classes feel “politically alienated” and frightened to speak out, a senior BBC executive has claimed.
Richard Klein said poorer whites believe they are “threatened economically and stifled socially” and that they no longer have a voice.
Mr Klein, the corporation’s commissioning editor for documentaries, has courted controversy before.
He previously admitted that the political correctness the BBC is frequently accused of is at odds with many of its viewers.
His latest comments come ahead of a season of BBC2 programmes under the banner White, which he is overseeing and which he believes can play a part in easing the anxieties of that section of the community.
He said: “You don’t hear white, working-class opinions often enough on TV.
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