{"id":3494,"date":"2008-11-11T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T13:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/11\/11\/bbc-fire-presenter-over-racist-asian-cabbie-call\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T13:21:31","slug":"bbc-fire-presenter-over-racist-asian-cabbie-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/11\/bbc-fire-presenter-over-racist-asian-cabbie-call\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC fire presenter over \u2018racist\u2019 Asian cabbie call"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turban \u2018will freak daughter out\u2019, says host <\/h3>\n
THE BBC have sacked one of their radio hosts over allegedly racist comments made to a local taxi firm in which she demanded a taxi driver who wasn\u2019t Asian.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Sam Mason made the call to a local taxi firm off-air while presenting her BBC Bristol radio show. <\/div>\n

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During the call, in which she booked a taxi for her 14-year-old daughter, Mason accused the female operator of being \u201cuneducated\u201d after she was told her request for a non-Asian cab driver was racist. \u00a0<\/div>\n

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The taxi firm, who said they recorded all calls in case of queries and complaints, passed the transcript of the conversation to a national newspaper. <\/div>\n

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Mason is heard saying: I know this sounds really racist, but I\u2019m not being . . . please, don\u2019t send anyone like, you know what I mean. An English person would be great, a female would be better.\u201d<\/div>\n

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When the operator tells her this is \u201cracist\u201d and that she cannot \u201cpenalise the Asian drivers and just send an English one\u201d, Mason persists before she is passed on to a male operator. <\/div>\n

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She continued: \u201cI work at the BBC. I\u2019m far from racist and that uneducated woman has no right to call me one.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Speaking of her daughter she says: \u201cI don\u2019t want her to turn up with a guy with a turban on, it\u2019s going to freak her out. She\u2019s not used to Asians.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Mason was initially suspended from her job, but was later sacked by the corporation. <\/div>\n

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In a statement the BBC said her comments were \u201ccompletely unacceptable\u201d.<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlthough Sam Mason’s remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect,\u201d the statement said. <\/div>\n

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Turban \u2018will freak daughter out\u2019, says host THE BBC have sacked one of their radio hosts over allegedly racist comments made to a local taxi firm in which she demanded a taxi driver who wasn\u2019t Asian. Sam Mason made the call to a local taxi firm off-air while presenting her BBC Bristol radio show. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}