Independent: Response to Paxman’s middle-class white male comments
August 27th, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Journalism
After Jeremy Paxman's comments that there's no hope for a middle-class white male to succeed in television, Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy has hit back. "I feel awfully sorry for white, middle-class men who went to Oxbridge (...) but I'm not sure they are the ones at the greatest disadvantage," he said. Full story...
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