After signing during the protest call Whose SR?
this autumn, several signing journalists have been given restrictions on the subjects they are allowed to cover.
Employees have been told that they can not report on Black lives matter or "the issues the movement drives".
Some have also been told that they cannot report on representation or quotas.
But on Thursday, the newspaper Journalisten drew attention to the fact that the restrictions do not apply to everyone.
Reported on BLM
Edgar Mannheimer, reporter at the cultural editorial office and the program People and Faith in P1, signed the appeal as an "ally" as he himself does not feel that he has been exposed to racism at work.
But unlike other signatories, he did not receive any restrictions in his work and has therefore been able to report on, for example, the Black lives matter movement.
"Is a white man"
Only after Edgar Mannheimer told about this in Journalisten did he get restrictions on what he could cover.
To the Journalist, he says: “Of course I can not know for sure what it is due to.
But I'm a white man. ”
- My bosses have known that I signed the appeal and the management says that they read it very carefully.
It is only now that I get restrictions, because I made a thing of it.
Of course I do not want restrictions, but it is strange that not everyone is treated equally, says Edgar Mannheimer to SVT.
"Is obscene"
Swedish Radio's deputy program director Olov Carlsson dismisses that the absence of restrictions would have anything to do with Edgar Mannheimer being a white man.
- All those who signed one of the appeals have had conversations with their immediate superiors about what restrictions this may mean for what issues they can monitor.
Everyone has had those conversations, regardless of gender, skin color, ancestry.
To say otherwise is outrageous.
However, I do not know exactly how individual employees have perceived their conversations and what the content of each conversation has been, I can not comment with regard to personal integrity, he says.