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标题：'The Beeb is still hideously white' -Dyke
作者：PAUL HUNTER
期刊名称：Sunday Mirror
印刷版ISSN：0956-8077
出版年度：2001
卷号：Jan 7, 2001
出版社：Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd.

'The Beeb is still hideously white' -Dyke

PAUL HUNTER

THE BBC is "hideously white" according to Greg Dyke, the corporation's director-general.

He said more than 98 per cent of its staff were white, and admitted that a lot of people from ethnic backgrounds had joined and left. He speculated that some might not feel welcome.

Mr Dyke said he realised there was a problem during a management Christmas lunch where only one of the 80 guests was non-white.

His comments came in a radio interview to be broadcast today.

He said: "You can have all the equal opportunities policies you like, but if the gateman doesn't let blacks through the gates, you've got a problem. I don't believe the BBC is like that, but we are not saying 'what are we going to do about this'."