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David Dimbleby: Are journalistic values under threat?

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Do You Think the BBC Should Be Using Positive Discrimination?

I don't know whether I was paid or not but I did family favourites and I did work in the BBC pretty well all my life. It's interesting that the Dimbleby family has been in journalism so long. My great grandfather was a journalist. We are journalists by trade. No it is interesting and it gets to the point we were discussing earlier about the way the BBC has to adapt to serve its audiences. Do you think today the BBC should very actively be seeking not to have as its figureheads the public school educated, the upper middle class,. those who have come from a privileged background? Absolutely. The big battle for the BBC now is how to reflect the society that's increasingly

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