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25 August, 2008, 11:03

A BBC journalist claims white middle-class men face discrimination at the BBC. The presenter of BBC2's Newsnight programme, Jeremy Paxman, named several senior women executives, including BBC Vision director Jana Bennett and BBC1 Controller Jay Hunt, as proof of the growing female domination in the industry.

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