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The BBC's Reply To Sharron Hall
The BBC operates in line with its published Editorial Guidelines on issues such as portrayal meaning that referenceto a person's ethnicity should only be made when providing context and when iditorially justified.
For your information, reproduced below is the relevant paragraph from the Editorial Guidelines:
We aim to reflect fully and fairly all of the United Kingdom's people and cultures in our services. Content may reflect the prejudice and disadvantage which exist in our society but we should not perpetuate it. We should avoid offensive or stereotypical assumptions and people should only be described in terms of their disability, age, sexual orientation and so on when clearly editorially justified.
In terms of how the BBC refers to people, we would always aim to ask the person directly how they wish to be described and then endeavour to refer to them in that way across our output.
That said, we also have to reflect wider opinion - for example, Lewis Hamilton is widely described as "black" when commentators reflect on the lack of diversity in Formula 1 and the sport of motor racing generally. Barak Obama is often similarly described in relation to American politics.
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