Why on earth would you try to up your ethnic face-count by slipping young people of colour into COUNTRYFILE, of all places?
A diversity strategy far too heavily based on an "ethnic faces for ethnic voters" approach is bound to fail.
And one of the whitest too, with very, very few black or ethnic faces on the streets.
Recently, the agency conducted a nationwide search for new ethnic faces, sending scouts to Manchester and Blackburn.
What's most artful about his drawings, mostly in black-and-white with gray ink wash, is their evocation of New York's demoniacal energy, the look of its down-at-the-heels neighborhoods and storefront facades and its ethnic faces.
What's most artful about his drawings is their evocation of New York's demoniacal energy, the look of its down-at-the-heels neighborhoods and storefront facades and its ethnic faces.
ITV had the most minority ethnic faces with 16.5% (against 12.9% recorded in the 2011 census), ahead of BBC1's 12.2%, and also the most disabled contributors, with 3.5% ahead of Channel 4, which came bottom in the disabled category with just 1.4%.
Mr Vaizey told The Independent he had been pleased to hear of plans by the BBC and Sky to improve their diversity records, but said he was looking to hear of similar initiatives from ITV and Channel 4. "It's now frankly weird not to see more BAME (black and minority ethnic) faces – both in front of and behind the camera – in the society we now live in," he said.
What's artful about these drawings -- mostly in black and white, with gray ink wash -- is their evocation of New York's demoniacal energy, the look of its down-at-the-heels neighborhoods and storefront facades, and the ethnic faces that Mr. Katchor has evolved from perusal of books like "Lexicon of the Jewish Theater," published in 1931, with its illustrated biographies of actors and actresses.
