Sacked: For Being 'Just Too Clever' ; Henry Bonsu Believes Bbc Radio Fired Him Because He Fails to Conform to the Corporation's Stereotype of Black People
Evening Standard - London › March 11, 2004
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JUST in case any BBC executives were starting to relax, here are a few more bombshells. The corporation is inherently racist, has undermined the needs of black licence-fee payers, and, in dumbing down, has failed in its publicservice duty to represent ethnicminority concerns. And no, this is not the verdict of some partisan think-tank or the latest Mark Byford-inspired apology. It is the considered view of one of BBC radio's most high-profile black presenters.
Henry Bonsu, sacked last week from his BBC London 94.9FM talk show, has decided not to go quietly.See the full content of this document
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Sacked: For Being 'Just Too Clever' ; Henry Bonsu Believes Bbc Radio Fired Him Because He Fails to Conform to the Corporation's Stereotype of Black People
A long-term BBC loyalist, at the station for almost five years, Bonsu was fired from his Sunday-night talk show for apparently being too "intellectual". As David Robey, the station's managing editor, made clear, Bonsu's "intellectual and considered approach ... does not fit in with our agenda".
The award-winning presenter - whose show was...See the full content of this document
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