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‘White, male’ narrators on nature shows may discourage ‘minority’ viewers from watching TV
https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-male-narrators-nature-shows-may-discourage-minority-viewers-watching ^ | January 10, 2023 | Jeffrey Clark

Posted on 01/11/2023 7:01:18 AM PST by Twotone

The Environment Agency — Britain’s version of the EPA — funded research that concluded that white, male narrators on nature programs could make minorities feel excluded. 

"The tendency for environmental documentaries to be voiced by white, male voices was given as an example of how the environment and the sector can feel inaccessible to people from ethnic minorities," The Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES) claimed in a Feb. 2022 study. 

The study focused on "ethnic minority environmental professionals" in a "challenging environment."

The 44-page-long report also argued that "racially white, financially middle class" people dominated the environment sector. 

The report used the word "white" 43 times and gave a strict definition for the word early in the study. 

"English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British, Irish, Gypsy or Irish Traveller, Roma, or any other White background" qualifies as white, according to the IES.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: minorityviewers; narrators; naturshows
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1 posted on 01/11/2023 7:01:18 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Perhaps they don’t realize how much TV in general folks don’t watch now for the opposite reason.


2 posted on 01/11/2023 7:02:29 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Twotone

Ignorance can be cured with the infusion of knowledge, but stupid is forever!


3 posted on 01/11/2023 7:03:23 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Twotone
Way, way too much money in the UK (and US) government.
4 posted on 01/11/2023 7:03:32 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Twotone

I’ll bet the word ‘white’ wasn’t capitalized once also...


5 posted on 01/11/2023 7:04:18 AM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Twotone

ARENT WE SUPPOSED TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM WATCHING TV?


6 posted on 01/11/2023 7:04:24 AM PST by struggle
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To: Twotone

Just when I thought things couldn’t get more “Black” oriented...like the commercials...


7 posted on 01/11/2023 7:06:44 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Twotone

so they are worried it MAY discourage ‘minority’ viewers from watching TV but not if Whites are discouraged...


8 posted on 01/11/2023 7:07:00 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Twotone

Need rappers doing the nature thing, cool.


9 posted on 01/11/2023 7:07:02 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: caww

I sure don’t remember the ads....cuz I’m not the target...and neither are blacks. It’s a big media backfire.


10 posted on 01/11/2023 7:08:10 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Twotone

Yeah, that’s right.

They will listen to a black transgender female voice talking about cheetahs eating gazelles on the Serengeti................


11 posted on 01/11/2023 7:10:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Twotone

That’s their problem then if they are that racist.


12 posted on 01/11/2023 7:10:37 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Twotone

“white, male voices”

Voices are not white. Voices are not male.

There is no way to know reliably if the voice is that of a male, female, white, non-white. The author of the article is stupid.


13 posted on 01/11/2023 7:10:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are lower than bacteria that feed on dead pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho. )
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To: Twotone

In recent weeks we have learned that weight control, exercise, swimming, classical music and having the name Mike are racist. Now we learn that having white skin is racist.


14 posted on 01/11/2023 7:11:31 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Twotone

What a huge load of nonsense.


15 posted on 01/11/2023 7:12:03 AM PST by Allegra
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To: Twotone

Black males (and females), born in the UK, do NOT have southern US dialects - so how the hell would any listener know??


16 posted on 01/11/2023 7:12:13 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQLKcO5S2BM

what the hell was that?


17 posted on 01/11/2023 7:12:49 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Twotone

Interesting. There was a Hollywood awards show that started with a racist rant, so I’ll bet I wasn’t the only white not to watch.


18 posted on 01/11/2023 7:13:40 AM PST by Extra-Ordinary Objectives (My preferred pronouns are intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.)
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To: Twotone

Honey badger don’t care.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJF84oz93jw


19 posted on 01/11/2023 7:14:40 AM PST by Allegra
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Oh s*** son! That tiger be crazy as hell! Bit that n**** on his neck and sheit…


20 posted on 01/11/2023 7:15:02 AM PST by EEGator
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