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I wrote about just one example here. The BBC spent years on a hit piece equating trans people with sex offenders, meanwhile uncritically platforming an extremis

by orra 5y ago

I wrote about just one example here. The BBC spent years on a hit piece equating trans people with sex offenders, meanwhile uncritically platforming an extremist trans-eliminist sex offender. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30565403#30567568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30565403#30567568 Before that, staff were told that attending Pride was no longer allowed. This week the BBC Woman’s Hour platformed Maya Forstater as a feminist hero. They didn't critically mention the real reason she was dismissed from her contract was for handing out leaflets at work that said trans people are a danger to children.

tytytyp 5y ago
It wasn't a hit piece though, it was a balanced look at a contentious issue. The author of article did actually interview two transwomen who agreed that what the article describes - lesbians being socially pressured to have sex with males - is indeed a problem. This is the BBC doing its job admirably, presenting different points of view and perspectives, to educate and inform the reader in as neutral a manner as is possible in journalism.
tweetle_beetle 5y ago
You've ignored the strong positive message set across a variety of output currently visible to everyone with access to bbc.co.uk and countered it with a an unreferenced description of an article (the HN comment has no title or link) and a potential factual omission from an interview (with no external reference to confirm). (I don't work for the BBC and internal matters are somewhat opaque to the outside world, but even the Pride issue seems to have been some poor interpretation of a brand new guideline by someone internally that was spun into a bigger story and dealt with within a few days - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54749024 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54749024) I'm still struggling to see the evidence for a war.

by orra 5y ago

tytytyp 5y ago

It wasn't a hit piece though, it was a balanced look at a contentious issue. The author of article did actually interview two transwomen who agreed that what the article describes - lesbians being socially pressured to have sex with males - is indeed a problem. This is the BBC doing its job admirably, presenting different points of view and perspectives, to educate and inform the reader in as neutral a manner as is possible in journalism.

tweetle_beetle 5y ago

You've ignored the strong positive message set across a variety of output currently visible to everyone with access to bbc.co.uk and countered it with a an unreferenced description of an article (the HN comment has no title or link) and a potential factual omission from an interview (with no external reference to confirm). (I don't work for the BBC and internal matters are somewhat opaque to the outside world, but even the Pride issue seems to have been some poor interpretation of a brand new guideline by someone internally that was spun into a bigger story and dealt with within a few days - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54749024 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54749024) I'm still struggling to see the evidence for a war.