From The Daily Mail
Fewer than one in five TV presenters is a man under the age of 50, new research reveals. Broadcasters are accused of behaving as if viewers 'need to be protected' from younger men, while promoting younger women and grey-haired men.
It comes after popular presenters including Moira Stuart and Anna Ford were replaced with young women instead of young men to the fury of many female viewers.
The BBC, ITN, Channel 5 and Sky all come under fire for figures which showed around half of presenters under-50 were women and 82 per cent of older hosts were men. The study was carried out for Labour's Harriet Harman, who claimed young men are being 'airbrushed' of the nation's TV screens.
She wrote to the six main UK broadcasters asking them how many younger men they employ on screen and behind the camera. Men account for more than half the UK's under-50 population, but just 18 per cent of TV presenters who are under 50 are male.
Ms Harman said for men 'grey hair denotes wisdom, experience, authority', and added: 'Broadcasters behave as though the viewing public have to be protected from the sight of a younger man and that's just rude. There is nothing wrong with being a younger man.'
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4 comments:
It only takes a few years to read the news well, and people prefer to see pretty young women on screen.
It's not that people are deliberately hiring young women. It's that they have an edge over oldies.
TS, people like Anna Ford are sickening. She only ever got hired because she was an attractive young woman, she's had a good innings, she's made her stash and now she can bugger off and let some other attractive young woman have a crack at earning a six figure salary for precious little work for a few years.
I nominate Becky Mantin.
Selina Scott too. She wasn't getting a gig on the Clothes Show for her expertise in fashion.
I like Jane Hill, which is a damn shame.
TS, Selin S is past it. And why it what a shame? The fact that Ms Hill bats for the other team?
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