Media Racism History 101: Part 5

In 2020, Brit Establishment newspapers, like the London Guardian (which also is now receiving "charitable grants" from some U.S. power elite foundations), claim to be opposed to institutional racism and systematic racism in the UK and elsewhere.

Yet in the late 20th-century, historically, institutional racism in the British media industry world was apparently still quite extensive. As, for example, the book Daily Racism: The press and Black people in Britain, by Paul Gordon and David Rosenberg, noted in 1989:

"Black people are under-represented in the media industry as a whole and in print journalism in particular. A survey conducted by the Black Media Workers Association [BMWA] in 1983 found that Black workers comprised only 0.7 percent of the total media workforce and the proportion of Black workers working full-time on newspapers and magazines stood at less than 0.2 percent (Black people make up 4.5 percent of the total labor-force in Britain.) It also found that there are several large cities with substantial Black populations which had no Black workers on local newspapers. From these statistics the BMWA argued that the predominantly white character of the media industry reinforced a white perspective in newspapers and they questioned whether the media in general could reflect the concerns of all sectors of society and Black minorities in particular..."

The same book also stated in 1989:

"...Press racism is found not only in its printed product but at the level of recruitment and employment in the industry. There is a need for the media industry as a whole to eliminate and confront its own institutionalized racism and become, in its composition, more reflective of the society in which it operates, particularly in relation to racial minorities..."