but it is largely true though isnt it, that just as the schooling system has made it harder for people not from the usual backgrounds to access the same higher level of education, so the music and film industries have become even more of an old boys network. or is that a specious claim, made by people in the media from middle/upper middle backgrounds with a guilt complex, who prob do the exact same nepotistic thing. it does look a lot like thats the case. (of course, not sure where dizzee, tinchy, n dubz and them fit into this theory - they kinda prove you can be a success even if youre not 'connected' and didnt go to the brit school like everyone else dont they? even if they have done it by getting really shit).