I hope my BBC pension won’t be cancelled for saying this (nothing would surprise me) but I too can no longer defend them. Like Jill (above) I believe the licence fee is being wasted on these chancers. Courageous journalism is needed now more than ever, and instead of employing more people in the mould of Hannah Barnes, they appear to have provided sinecures for ideologues. How many are in that department? How many are needed? I’m grateful to Graham for his courage in this fight, and to those who advised me to continue with my complaint about the BBC’s unquestioning use of the politically biased language of the gender cult.
I didn’t see it but my 80 something auntie watched the Emmys (or some pointless award ceremony) where Rue Paul won an award. While accepting it he was surrounded by about 20 grotesquely and hideously woman faced Drag Queens. My auntie wasn’t upset at that per se, (whatever -live and let live) it was Paul’s speech which went along the lines of - you should accept these lovely “ladies” for Drag Queen Story time in Libraries and Schools. We have really emboldened these fetishists, thanks BBC. My aunts question was this, and this is what concerned her. “why would a man, who enjoys dressing as a woman, prancing about like a caricature, in such an extreme parody, WANT to go into schools and read stories to young children?”
I'm very concerned that that the BBC is pushing for children to associate with srag queens. For many men dressing in drag is a sexual act and many of them turn out to be paedophiles. Show that the BBC has learned nothing from the Saville scandal.
So many failures - in impartiality, in safeguarding, and in journalistic integrity. I must say though that even the positioning women and those that are reality based (i.e. gender critical) as "the other side" by the BBC to LGBTQ bothers me a lot. Women and those of us opposed to this ideology are not the other side to LGB, we're not even the other side to "trans" people (those that really do have disphoria which is only treatable through transitioning medically), or those that want to step outside of gender stereotypes. The vast majority of us are against the ideology that threatens women's sports, threatens the safeguarding of women and children, threatens the ability of women to progress in all areas of life (where these men are getting positions reserved for women etc.) and threatens the very definition of what a woman is and therefore our legal protections as well as the right of LG people to the right to not be forced to accept the other sex in their dating pool (without being called a bigot). It really is very telling how the BBC sees this as an LGBTQ thing, while women (and the men that are also opposed to is), are seen as "the other side". Once again the TQ bit benefits from aligning itself with LGB.
If you look at Jon Buckley, the editor for the BBC's The Identity Hub on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-buckley-399596a/) you'll notice that he's worked only for...the BBC. Since graduating from Durham University in 2000. 1st job, editor for BBC Sports in Salford, for 22 years! BBC Sports routinely ignores the BBC journalist & editor standards, so perhaps not the best grounding. The online BBC Sports news site was recently criticised for its unwillingness to interview Lynne Pinches after she walked away from the English Pool Association’s 2023 Champion of Champions Ladies final. BBC Sports though enthusiastically interviewed the trans-woman winner Harriett Haynes with no reference to his cheating (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67807719) though TalkTV had managed to conduct the obvious interview with Pinches.
Buckley moved to BBC News in 2021. BBC News routinely ignores the BBC journalist & editor standards, so he's no experience of working in a professional news organisation that operates at the highest standards of quality. BBC News CEO is Deborah Turness, famous for her part in the humbling of NBC News (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast).
So we shouldn't perhaps expect too much from BBC News or indeed its Identity Hub. Compliance with the BBC's impartiality rules isn't a top priority for its CEO or most of its Editors, and the BBC News journalists do strive to come over as 'cub-reporters' filing copy for a sixth-form magazine much of the time.
The problem with failing to maintain standards of professional conduct & impartiality is that the knock-on impact is that quality slides. Siding with a particular ideology (in this case white supremacist homophobic and misogynistic transgenderism) has a corrosive impact on the work that is performed in Salford.
I said I no longer defend the BBC as it is now dysfunctional, and that’s true of the organisation, but your characterisation of BBC reporters and “there editors” (sic) is wrong. The point is not that BBC journalists routinely ignore the Editorial Guidelines (they don’t), it’s that the guidelines themselves are corrupted. For example, they insist on using the preferred pronouns of convicted criminals. As we all know, that’s a very poor policy as it disguises, among other things, the true levels of male violence against women. The rule against “misgendering” is the first time the once-respected Editorial Guidelines have encouraged people to lie. The failure to recognise what constitutes impartiality in reporting matters of gender - or even to see the real story in the boycott of the pool final - is the inevitable consequence of the organisation disappearing down that rabbit hole.
Fucking typical. They also never report on the myriad horrors, which are legion, which we see in Reduxx with depressing and terrifying regularity. This is despicable!
I hope my BBC pension won’t be cancelled for saying this (nothing would surprise me) but I too can no longer defend them. Like Jill (above) I believe the licence fee is being wasted on these chancers. Courageous journalism is needed now more than ever, and instead of employing more people in the mould of Hannah Barnes, they appear to have provided sinecures for ideologues. How many are in that department? How many are needed? I’m grateful to Graham for his courage in this fight, and to those who advised me to continue with my complaint about the BBC’s unquestioning use of the politically biased language of the gender cult.
I didn’t see it but my 80 something auntie watched the Emmys (or some pointless award ceremony) where Rue Paul won an award. While accepting it he was surrounded by about 20 grotesquely and hideously woman faced Drag Queens. My auntie wasn’t upset at that per se, (whatever -live and let live) it was Paul’s speech which went along the lines of - you should accept these lovely “ladies” for Drag Queen Story time in Libraries and Schools. We have really emboldened these fetishists, thanks BBC. My aunts question was this, and this is what concerned her. “why would a man, who enjoys dressing as a woman, prancing about like a caricature, in such an extreme parody, WANT to go into schools and read stories to young children?”
The 6m dollar question. Why indeed.
I'm very concerned that that the BBC is pushing for children to associate with srag queens. For many men dressing in drag is a sexual act and many of them turn out to be paedophiles. Show that the BBC has learned nothing from the Saville scandal.
Keep up the good work Graham!
So many failures - in impartiality, in safeguarding, and in journalistic integrity. I must say though that even the positioning women and those that are reality based (i.e. gender critical) as "the other side" by the BBC to LGBTQ bothers me a lot. Women and those of us opposed to this ideology are not the other side to LGB, we're not even the other side to "trans" people (those that really do have disphoria which is only treatable through transitioning medically), or those that want to step outside of gender stereotypes. The vast majority of us are against the ideology that threatens women's sports, threatens the safeguarding of women and children, threatens the ability of women to progress in all areas of life (where these men are getting positions reserved for women etc.) and threatens the very definition of what a woman is and therefore our legal protections as well as the right of LG people to the right to not be forced to accept the other sex in their dating pool (without being called a bigot). It really is very telling how the BBC sees this as an LGBTQ thing, while women (and the men that are also opposed to is), are seen as "the other side". Once again the TQ bit benefits from aligning itself with LGB.
Absolutely. It's been the smoke and mirrors which has obscured the truth of it all.
Well, I'm certainly not surprised. The BBC really is a lost cause.
If you look at Jon Buckley, the editor for the BBC's The Identity Hub on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-buckley-399596a/) you'll notice that he's worked only for...the BBC. Since graduating from Durham University in 2000. 1st job, editor for BBC Sports in Salford, for 22 years! BBC Sports routinely ignores the BBC journalist & editor standards, so perhaps not the best grounding. The online BBC Sports news site was recently criticised for its unwillingness to interview Lynne Pinches after she walked away from the English Pool Association’s 2023 Champion of Champions Ladies final. BBC Sports though enthusiastically interviewed the trans-woman winner Harriett Haynes with no reference to his cheating (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67807719) though TalkTV had managed to conduct the obvious interview with Pinches.
Buckley moved to BBC News in 2021. BBC News routinely ignores the BBC journalist & editor standards, so he's no experience of working in a professional news organisation that operates at the highest standards of quality. BBC News CEO is Deborah Turness, famous for her part in the humbling of NBC News (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast).
So we shouldn't perhaps expect too much from BBC News or indeed its Identity Hub. Compliance with the BBC's impartiality rules isn't a top priority for its CEO or most of its Editors, and the BBC News journalists do strive to come over as 'cub-reporters' filing copy for a sixth-form magazine much of the time.
The problem with failing to maintain standards of professional conduct & impartiality is that the knock-on impact is that quality slides. Siding with a particular ideology (in this case white supremacist homophobic and misogynistic transgenderism) has a corrosive impact on the work that is performed in Salford.
Time was that journalists aspired to be Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein. These days though it's the likes of Judith Miller, Brian Williams and Ben Hunte (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bbc-finally-admits-errors-on-gender-transitioning-article/) who the cub-reporters of BBC News, and there Editors, appear to be trying to emulate.
I said I no longer defend the BBC as it is now dysfunctional, and that’s true of the organisation, but your characterisation of BBC reporters and “there editors” (sic) is wrong. The point is not that BBC journalists routinely ignore the Editorial Guidelines (they don’t), it’s that the guidelines themselves are corrupted. For example, they insist on using the preferred pronouns of convicted criminals. As we all know, that’s a very poor policy as it disguises, among other things, the true levels of male violence against women. The rule against “misgendering” is the first time the once-respected Editorial Guidelines have encouraged people to lie. The failure to recognise what constitutes impartiality in reporting matters of gender - or even to see the real story in the boycott of the pool final - is the inevitable consequence of the organisation disappearing down that rabbit hole.
One recent example is BBC Radio 5 presenter Nihal Arthanayake being told to ignore BBC News editorial policy. (https://twitter.com/TherealNihal/status/1712045564072780246)
BBC Trending presenter Ahmad Fakhouri has breached BBC News editorial policy so many times it could be said they don't really exist for him and his fellow presenters. In a moment of dark humour he produced a video remining his fellows they are actually supposed to do that. https://www.thejc.com/news/world/bbc-arabic-presenter-we-must-follow-antihate-rules-whatever-our-views-ftdocw4a
One way that BBC News has changed is to change the editorial rules to suit the ideology, and James Kirkup highlighted this in https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbc-gets-new-orders-back-trans-rights-ignore-women/
Fucking typical. They also never report on the myriad horrors, which are legion, which we see in Reduxx with depressing and terrifying regularity. This is despicable!
Tumbleweed from the BBC on the recent House of Lords conversion therapy debate...