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Originally Posted by Stephen
She reads the autocue she doesn't write it. Her personal opinion doesnt come in to it. If she doesn't read what is scripted then she is voicing her own thoughts and the BBC have to be impartial.
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Again, not an opinion, a factual inaccuracy which she is paid to spot and correct. It absolutely is part of a news anchor’s job to deviate from the script on the autocue when it is apparent that reading it as written would be misleading or obviously unclear. It doesn’t happen often because these are professional operations and the scripts are usually watertight. This one was not. The document that was subject of this report
did not use the activist term ‘pregnant people’ and the term is not in the BBC style guide. Its use was inaccurate and unnecessary. She was well within her professional remit to correct it on the fly.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
So if a newsreader spots a mistake, they can't correct it?
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They can.
They should.
They do.