Guardian top 100 most powerful people in media...

the list is horrendous

A truly excruciating event in the history of publishing. Hard to know whether to laugh or cry at it.

The self-regard and self-aggrandisement of this industry has few peers.

And yes, Number 18 is quite a stretch.  I see that in 2014 he hilariously reached Number 8, which I can only assume was subsequently dealt with in the Guardian 'Corrections and Clarifications' column.

Corbyn at 100 is ironic when you consider they have a minimum of 5 stories a day undermining him.

Someone posted in the comments "Your list is sh1t and full of w@nkers"

That sounds like something I would post but I couldn't find the comments section.

When it comes to ethnic diversity, the situation is far worse with less than 10% of the top 100 from BAME backgrounds.

wtf is "BAME" I thought, though the general sentiment was obvious.  I could guess B="black", A = "Asian" or "And" or "African".  So googled it and this was the first article:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/22/black-asian-minority-ethnic-bame-bme-trevor-phillips-racial-minorities

tw@ts paper and no mistake.

Lenny Henry at 18, what's he learned to read and write?

Surprising that Diane Abbott isn't on the list. She is on t'telly quite often and is from a BAME background.

She's also a better comedian than Lenny.

the top 3 are pure excrement but the rest is just made up.....they ran out of names after the top 3 and just started naming anyone that came to mind

Nov 30, 2015 -- 3:22PM, DIE LINKE wrote:

Corbyn at 100 is ironic when you consider they have a minimum of 5 stories a day undermining him.

4 George Osbourne
100 Jeremy Corbyn

So where are David Cameron, and given the random Americans in there, Barack Obama, or to a lesser extent, any other major world leader.

Good point. What a bollocks list.

President Xi Jinping, Controls over a billion people using heavily censored media...Nowhere.

Mark Zuckerberg, owns a website where people post pictures of cups of coffee and what's for lunch, has little control over content....Number 1

Total horse sh1t.

very good foin.

i'm stealing that and going to pass it off as my own.

You are welcome, DStyle,

Money Tree not even mentioned despite his ability to alter the outcome of a foregone conclusion by typing a single phrase: "full bank xxxx".

the list is a carve up imo

Lolcloseau

Can I steal that too foinavon.  That line has a date with fb.

Of course you can Rob.

I have posted it seriously foinavon. I will admit it wasn't my line one day

Already got one like

Glad you like it Rob, don't use facebook myself so it wasn't me.

From then very same day on the Guardian website, more ludicrous agonising about "lack of diversity", this time in a movie.

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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/30/gods-of-egypt-director-and-studio-apologise-for-lack-of-diversity


I'm hoping against hope that Tuesday's edition of The Guardian is going to fearlessly investigate the lack of diversity amongst the ice-cream men selling their wares in the vans around these parts. Haven't seen a single LGBT/BAME/Ethnic Minority person driving an ice cream van in this neighbourhood all the time I've lived here, or for that matter in any of the other UK towns I've lived in.  Why isn't Positive Discrimination taking place to ensure that our ice cream isn't being sold with that all-important added vibrancy?

If they do take up in the frozen confectionery game, alun, they get shunned by their own kind and called "choc ices"... Black on the outside, white on the inside.