Mark Thompson Confesses 'BBC First First Got It Wrong' on Older Women

LONDON - The BBC has pledged to put more older women into prominent on-screen roles, after acknowledging it stood a situation to resolve about having less female presenters.Inside an article inside the "Daily Mail," BBC director general Mark Thompsonwrote the BBC had too handful of female presenters - specifically in senior news and current matters roles. He mentioned the BBC will have to begin changing the culture internally."Let's not mince words - people who the BBC features a situation to resolve about the way treats its older women are right," he written inside the paper."You'll find manifestly too handful of older women tv producers round the BBC," he recognized. He ongoing to reason why the BBC nonetheless has a range of senior women in management and executive roles.Thompson ongoing to convey the issue went industry-wide which on British television and media generally, "older women are chiefly notable by their absence."But he pledged that they like a national broadcaster funded with the public, "the BBC is at another class from everyone else" and will have to improve.The BBC has faces a barrage of complaints lately about popular senior women being removed screen. Newsreader Moira Stewart, "Strictly Come Dancing"judge Arlene Phillipsand "Countryfile"presenter Miriam O'Reillyare good quality good examples.O'Reilly needed the BBC to have an employment tribunal, accusing it old-discrimination. Thompson mentioned the problem happen to be a "wake-up call." The Hollywood Reporter