{"id":1311,"date":"2015-03-26T20:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cumnockmediaclass.wordpress.com\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2015-03-26T20:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:42:50","slug":"insulting-the-working-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/2015\/03\/26\/insulting-the-working-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Insulting the working classes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3013289\/BBC-creative-director-Alan-Yentob-insults-nearly-half-country-says-C2DEs-catered-corporation-defending-Clarkson-sacking.html\">Alan Yentob<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial\">Alan Yentob has been mocked for denying that the BBC was elitist while using marketing speak of &#8216;C2s and Ds&#8217; to describe working class people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial\">The broadcaster&#8217;s creative director was appearing on Newsnight to defend the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson, whose contract is not being renewed after he attacked Top Gear producer\u00a0Oisin Tymon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-family:Arial\">He had denied that the corporation was elitist, but said it made programmes that attracted audiences who were &#8216;C2, Ds&#8217; &#8211; marketing terms for working class consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3013289\/BBC-creative-director-Alan-Yentob-insults-nearly-half-country-says-C2DEs-catered-corporation-defending-Clarkson-sacking.html#ixzz3VWhsPEPv\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">sacking.html#ixzz3VWhsPEPv<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>Follow us:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=MailOnline\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>|<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=DailyMail\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Yentob Alan Yentob has been mocked for denying that the BBC was elitist while using marketing speak of &#8216;C2s and Ds&#8217; to describe working class people. The broadcaster&#8217;s creative director was appearing on Newsnight to defend the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson, whose contract is not being renewed after he attacked Top Gear producer\u00a0Oisin Tymon. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/2015\/03\/26\/insulting-the-working-classes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insulting the working classes?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/cumnockmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}