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Originally Posted by Chris
I’m pleased that you helped expose the lack of credibility in the BBC’s internal complaints process.
Croxall was ambushed on-air with a script that used the ludicrous phrase ‘pregnant people’. Self-evidently, only women can become pregnant. This is not a personal opinion, it is science. She quite correctly substituted the scientifically correct term. The term ‘pregnant people’ is so bone-jarringly, brain-achingly stupid, her very brief eye-roll was really rather restrained. Certainly not worth the time and money of an internal investigation. Definitely not worth your time to report, though complaining about people does seem to be a hobby of yours.
Given that her conviction for facecrime comes less than 24 hours after a damning internal memo was leaked, laying bare the extent to which the BBC has developed a nasty habit of censoring coverage of issues like transgenderism and Palestine unless they conform to activist-approved lines, one has to wonder whether the BBC has gone looking for a squirrel to misdirect critical attention from its failings.
Telegraph, paywall-free link:
https://archive.ph/wWdMS |
My salient complaint was about a newsreaders taking it upon herself to change the script that she had been given to read and making her views known on the news. You all seem to be focusing on what she said/did, whilst it's the fact that she did it, regardless of the subject matter, that is the issue.
It would have been the same if the script had of said 'women' and she had changed it to 'pregnant people' and rolled her eyes.
Even typists are trained not to change things, but to type what's put in front of them. If you wrote a piece for a newspaper, I don't think you'd be happy if what you had written had been changed because the inputter wanted to put forward their own viewpoint.
BBC impartiality is extremely important, and yes, the Trump incident was wrong too.