{"id":113390,"date":"2022-01-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=113390"},"modified":"2022-01-12T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T01:23:40","slug":"veteran-host-quits-bbc-over-its-slavish-commitment-to-the-woke-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/veteran-host-quits-bbc-over-its-slavish-commitment-to-the-woke-agenda","title":{"rendered":"Veteran host quits BBC over its slavish commitment to the woke agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-updated\">Last updated on January 12th, 2022 at 08:23 pm<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Rees, the creator and host for 46 years of the BBC radio show \u201cQuote\u2026Unquote,\u201d has called it quits from the network. Why? Because of the BBC\u2019s slavish commitment to the woke agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported in the British <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/quote-unquotes-nigel-rees-why-i-quit-the-bbc-after-46-years-sv9xsbr02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sunday Times<\/a><\/em>, Rees stated: \u201cWe had prescriptions to have diverse groups and disabled guests. I didn\u2019t agree with it all but I went along with it because I had to. It came from upstairs, and it seemed a general priority.\u201d Eventually, however, this identity-politics policy became too much for him. \u201cI am not willing to go on having my choices interfered with in order to tick boxes in the name of diversity and representation. It is difficult having it enforced for the sake of it. It is also patronizing, not least to the people who don\u2019t want to be on because they feel they are ticking a box,\u201d Rees declared. So he quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Rees was firm in his decision to leave. \u201cThere was nothing the BBC could say to persuade me to change my mind. It had reached crunch point,\u201d he stated. He added that he hoped he did not \u201csound like an \u2018anti-woke\u2019 backbench Tory [the less left party in Great Britain] MP (which I am far from being)\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rees is the second major person in a month to leave a top network in the Anglosphere. Tara Henley, a veteran producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/producer-leaves-canadian-broadcasting-corporation-due-to-its-irrational-commitment-to-the-woke-agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quit<\/a> her position at the CBC over the network\u2019s woke agenda. Her reason from leaving was almost identical to Rees\u2019s: &#8220;It used to be that I was the one furthest to the left in any newsroom. I am now easily the most conservative, frequently sparking tension by questioning identity politics\u2026 To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book; to actively book more people of some races and less of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it is disheartening to hear how leftist major networks like the BBC and the CBC truly are, it is encouraging to learn that leaders at those organizations are finally taking a stand by calling out their network\u2019s commitment to the woke agenda and then quitting them. Let\u2019s hope that the actions taken by Nigel Rees and Tara Henley will give heart to other people in the media to do likewise. As more people learn the truth about what is happening, they can demand that those networks change or, if they won\u2019t, stop listening to them. The light of truth always dispels the darkness of deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Rees has had enough. 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