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Originally Posted by Stephen
I think he complained as she changed the script to voice her own opinion. That is not what news readers do. They simply read what they are told to leaving their personal feelings at home.
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Again, ‘pregnant women’ is not an opinion. It is settled scientific fact.
‘Pregnant people’, on the other hand, is the language of highly contentious social theory. The unwelcome
opinion in this case has come from the activist scriptwriter who put ‘people’ into the script, when even the report being referred to did not use that term.
Top-level news anchors like Martine Croxall are paid to notice factual errors even on the fly and manage them appropriately. This is what she did. The fact that her face betrayed exasperation at having to do so is understandable given the unnecessary, fish-brained use of the term in her script.
It’s also worth adding that at no point was Jeremy Paxman reprimanded for eye-rolling whilst famously making a career out of it for years whilst hosting Newsnight. Apparently it’s only women standing up against genderwoo that get persecuted.