British television will now be monitoring their own shows to see if they fit into an Orwellian criterion for diversity.
From Breitbart London:
The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky are all taking part in Project Diamond, a scheme which will gather data on the gender, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation and gender identity of all key staff working in television production, from the actors to the sound technicians.
All of the information will be fed into an encrypted computer system which will anonymise the data and allow trends to be monitored. The organisation behind Project Diamond, the Creative Diversity Network (CDN) has said that initial data will present a broad picture analysis, but it hopes to be able to monitor individual shows within time.
Alarm over television diversity came just two years ago when the soap opera EastEnders received major criticism for having to many white people and not enough minorities. This incident coincided with calls from actor and comedian Lenny Henry to create legislation setting racial quotas on television, also known as black and minority ethnic people (BAME).
"The BBC charter promises to represent the UK, its nations, regions and communities," said Henry. "BAMEs are an integral part of Great Britain’s communities – we deserve to be represented too. I want to hold our leaders to account."
One of Project Diamond's proponents, CDN executive director Amanda Ariss, feels that it will "create an accurate picture" of Britain's populace.
"This is a big tool to help us speed up diversity and do it better," said Ariss. "Everyone agrees the more detailed the data is, the stronger the driver for action is."
