The BBC's stance has been widely criticised
for linking her own experience with racism to discriminatory tweets sent by US president Donald Trump.
‘We, the undersigned group of people of colour who work in the media and broadcasting in the UK, strongly condemn [the ECU’s] finding and assert that it amounts to both a misunderstanding of the BBC’s editorial guidelines, and a form of racially discriminatory treatment towards BAME people who work on programming,’ they wrote.
‘The scope of its effect is already evidenced in the unprecedented number of BAME media figures who have openly and publicly voiced their condemnation on social media,’ they continued. In a set of demands laid out at the end of the letter, the group wrote that they wanted the decision to be overturned, for the BBC to tell their journalists they don’t expect them to be ‘impartial’ in the face of racism and for the ECU and Ofcom to ‘address their own levels of diversity and increase transparency as to how they reach their decisions.’
Alongside these 40+ BAME media figures, one unlikely broadcaster to come out in support of Naga was Piers Morgan, who
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