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Originally Posted by Chris
The thing that has caused me to worry that the BBC may be past the point of no return is the reports of senior editors deferring to identitarian Millennials and Gen-Zs in their newsrooms. If the older, experienced journalists aren’t in charge, and the wide-eyed, idealistic kids are, then they’re in serious trouble.
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Millennials will be mid 40s to 30s now I am afraid to say. There will be some seniors there.
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As they should. This editorial breach was so egregious, it’s undefendable. They need to make a very generous out-of-court settlement. If it stings the budget, they can make a massive saving by ending their bizarre, super-sized obsession with drag queens. There’s one on just about every show now, it must be costing a fortune.
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I don't think drag queens are especially expensive.
It's drama and scripted television that's quite expensive.
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I think the BBC was in a lot of trouble anyway. British television is increasingly an arm of American broadcasting, even ITV might be sold to Comcast, and they cannot compete with the budget of these shows that are targeting a transatlantic audience. Not to mention that with social media, the audience is overlapping a lot anyway.