Former news reader accuses BBC of blatant ageism and sexism

Former BBC news reader Selina Scott writes in The Telegraph:

"Indeed, 12 years ago, even the BBC agreed with me. In 1998 Age Concern commissioned its own investigation which revealed “older men” far outnumbered older women on BBC screens (72 per cent versus 28 per cent female), and noted “older women were considerably under-represented in spite of the fact that older women in the real world outnumber men”. The BBC was immediate in its response: it had “a sense of responsibility”, it said, as a public service broadcaster, to right this anomaly.

"Yet what happened to this report and what has happened on our screens since? Nothing. The obsession with youth and the rejection of older women in television has increased."

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