White Season
It is peculiarly refreshing to see the BBC’s White Season gaining so much attention. If white British people feel they are ignored by politicians and the media, at least the media is responding to their indignation. The Newsnight poll shows what most of us always knew: white working class people feel ignored by the Westminster Village.
There is one fundamental flaw in the coverage so far, I fear. All we have heard today is a wide range of opinion on the fact that white Brits feel ignored. The full coverage on Newsnight will feature a debate on the question of why this is the case, but few white working class Brits are going to watch Newsnight. Therefore, the problem has been compounded by the “taster” coverage throughout the day: they may no longer feel ignored, but feeling “discussed about” is a worse fate.
I trust that the White Season will be of substantive value when it begins, but so far this vapid feeding of stories through various BBC outlets leads one to question whether an elaborate publicity stunt is getting in the way of a worthwhile series.
I’ll be sure to watch this {first TV I’ll have seen in quite some time…}