Naomi Schiff

Seems fair enough to mention Bernie here. Many of the early comments defending Schiff claimed some combination of misogyny and racism, without acknowledging that she had no relevant experience to qualify her as a pundit and was really not very good.

Bernie is the anti-Schiff - experienced, knowledgeable, articulate, and she's already very natural for someone that isn't from a media background. To quote every second PH headline, behold: nobody has a bad word to say. She's been excellent and I'd be very happy to see her at the rest of the races this season. She'll only get better with experience too.

It'd be great to see Bernie get her own thread on here, but since we all seem to agree she's great it would probably be a very short one

So now that we've shown it wasn't gender, it must have been the other prejudice. Do you not hear how ridiculous that sounds? You're perhaps exposing your own prejudice if the main reason you can think of that people criticise Schiff more than others is effectively that "they're probably closet racists".
It's pretty simple, she wasn't very good at what she was employed to do. Crofty gets far more flak and he's a white male, Herbert got a fair bit of stick too. Although maybe that's ageism...

Bernie gets praised because her experience is relevant to the job and she can string an interesting, coherent, relevant sentence together. Naomi has neither experience nor insight, and generally says nothing that adds to the conversation. She has said herself that she was surprised to be taken on as a pundit.

I can't think which "many, many, many inexperienced white counterparts" you're referring to either. Everyone that I recall being employed as a regular TV pundit has been an ex-F1 employee, either as a race/test driver or team member in some capacity. Any examples?

Your other points are quite obviously affected by your prejudice. You're very wrong to suggest that criticism of Schiff has anything to with her race, and demonstrably wrong to claim that crap white pundits with less experience have been hired by Sky/BBC/Ch4.

My issue with Schiff's supposed lack of experience is that she doesn't use it to her advantage.

Plenty of racing drivers, regardless of how good they are, have worked as instructors or ended up as driver coaches so in that sense it would be interesting to see Schiff have a go on the SkyPad.

Having been an instructor myself, you're right. It can be an eye-opener and can give a wonderful insight.

I have no other views on Schiff apart from the indignation that I have seen written. I saw one interview with Lewis where she came across well, but nothing ground-breaking, nor hugely lacking.