why the bbc is going down the pan
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Steel Icarus
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So almost 30% more than 10,000, then.
mwgdrwg
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Did we not see this article that makes Antifa out to be a bit more bad that white supremacists?
Proud Boys and antifa - who are they and what do they want?
A guide to the fringe movements that became a debate flash point.
www.bbc.co.uk
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Some bizarre serif vs sans-serif font shenanigans going on right now:
mauvais
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BBC GEL | Introducing Reith – the new face of the BBC
The BBC has introduced a new typeface. Learn how and why.
www.bbc.co.uk
This is just great.
inews.co.uk
BBC staff told attending LGBT pride protests in any capacity can breach new impartiality rules
The BBC has issued new guidance for staff on political impartiality
inews.co.uk
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This is just great.
BBC staff told attending LGBT pride protests in any capacity can breach new impartiality rules
The BBC has issued new guidance for staff on political impartiality
Apparently Pride is fine but if its a Trans event its classed as a protest.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Theres a thumbprint that says Dominic Cummings on the instructions, it could mean anything.
sure, but it'll still have the desired effect - staff now know this is what senior management want, and will act accordingly regardless.
mauvais
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Heh. I wouldn't be so sure.
You think that ambitious junior reporters won't cut their cloth to fit this?
mauvais
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I think this will be another stitch in the rich tapestry of Entirely Foreseeable Foot Shootingly Stupid Moves that the BBC has performed and then has to almost immediately walk back in some form, like Scottish Covid broadcasts or the equal pay legal case or saying the N word on TV or Maitlis or Munchetty or... you get the gist. So I think it will achieve fuck all other than to infuriate and possibly even organise 20,000 general staff most of whom aren't supposed to be subject to it anyway.
So... the BBC are saying trans people's existence is a divisive issue? What about if they're a trans member of staff? Absolute nonsense and won't last 30 secs in front of a lawyer
mauvais
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It won't stop the rightward march but in that respect even successful controls would only really be relevant to high profile 'talent'. I don't know what difference you think a junior reporter is going to make to the output or direction of the BBC, good or bad. The biggest consequence of these guidelines is going to be how much internal damage they do and the fallout from how and when they fail.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This Tim Davie cunt is truly a DG for our times 
Its more the culture created over the coming years by many junior reporters taking their signals from this (and other similar crap) rather than one individual junior reporter 'making a difference'
stethoscope
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Oh look, trans stuff being used as a wedge issue. Well I am surprised, it's like some of us have never foreseen it.
Tone-deaf urban.
Tone-deaf urban.
mauvais
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This, in terms of decision making, is not actually about trans people or LGBTQ or other forms of protests. This is managerial incompetence manifesting in a variety of different kinds of collateral damage in pursuit of defending the corporation against claims of bias, which in itself is sort of understandable but also an unwinnable war. I really think it's not considered or consulted or a deliberate wedge (though it absolutely may now be used as one), they just have no idea what they're doing.
A positive is that it will very likely backfire in short order and the consequences and concessions of that will lead to (small) improvements in that management culture. It's already happening but unfortunately it seems to take these episodes of stupidity to move the dial.
In terms of actual bias and conflicts of interest, a certain culture is already entrenched - senior political reporters behave in particular ways that actually ought to be rightly curtailed by this stuff, although it remains to be seen both whether they are the target (rather than say, Gary Lineker) and whether they will be subject to anything meaningful in practice.
A positive is that it will very likely backfire in short order and the consequences and concessions of that will lead to (small) improvements in that management culture. It's already happening but unfortunately it seems to take these episodes of stupidity to move the dial.
In terms of actual bias and conflicts of interest, a certain culture is already entrenched - senior political reporters behave in particular ways that actually ought to be rightly curtailed by this stuff, although it remains to be seen both whether they are the target (rather than say, Gary Lineker) and whether they will be subject to anything meaningful in practice.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
And yet somehow the fucking director general being a former tory politician doesn't breach impartiality rules 
mauvais
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I didn't necessarily mind that too much, his early proclamations weren't terrible.
However, this went to some senior staff today:
Nice doubling down on this shit - the totally clueless idea that we all live in a post-politics era where everything is already sorted for everyone. Pride as commemorative? Commemorative of a fucking riot you bellends.
However, this went to some senior staff today:
Nice doubling down on this shit - the totally clueless idea that we all live in a post-politics era where everything is already sorted for everyone. Pride as commemorative? Commemorative of a fucking riot you bellends.
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