Once upon a time the BBC was a liberal and progressive newsite that provided objective news and opinion.
However, since before JK Rowling was revealed to be a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, a group who often use the term "Gender Critical Feminist" as a euphenism, the UK media has becotrame increasing trans-antagonistic in thier coverage of trans people and our issues.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/britain-transphobia-uk-transphobic-history-gender-recognition-act-what-the-trans/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/terf-trans-women-britain.html https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/01/transphobia-uk-terf-island-tiktok/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/uk/uk-trans-rights-gender-critical-media-intl-gbr-cmd/index.html
Nowhere is this more evident than at the BBC where the government funded news organization has taken steps that recently that have caused numerous LGBTQ employees to leave the company:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nv97/lgbtq-employees-are-quitting-the-bbc-because-they-say-its-transphobic
At the center of the epicenter of this exodus is the decision to publish a trans-antagonistic article accusing transpeople of being abusers and predators trying to pressure lesbians into having sex with trans women. They do this using a poll with only 80 respondants from a trans-antagonistic source as evidence:
https://www.them.us/story/bbc-latest-transphobic-screed-is-a-mockery-of-journalism
Then to add fuel to the fire, one of the people interviewed by the article, Adult film actress Lily Cade, released a hate filled screed against trans people calling on the general public to commit violence and even lynch trans women:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/03/lily-cade-bbc-trans-transphobia/
The BBC responded not by taking the awful article down, but by just removing Ms Cade out of said article:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/04/bbc-changes-online-article-at-centre-of-transphobia-row
Of course the guardian isn't much better than the BBC... And all of this comes on the heals of the BBC leaving the Stonewall Diversity Champions Program out of fear of bias.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/bbc-stonewall-diversity-champions-programme/
A fear of bias that seems to come up if it in any way is in favor of Trans people and not against as the BBC has no issue defending their trans-antagonistic article:
https://www.them.us/story/bbc-trans-women-article-statement
I doubt they would use a poll of a 1000 Norweigns saying trans people are alright despite it being a better poll than the one they used:
https://trans-express.lgbt/post/667766588799336448/955-of-all-human-beings-think-trans-people#notes
My point being this, until they take steps to address and correct this bias, the BBC should be considered an anti-Trans news source.
Adult film actress Lily Cade, released a hate filled screed against trans people calling on the general public to commit violence and even lynch trans women
in addition, she also has multiple credible SA accusations against her
She also admitted to at least some of these allegations being true. She's a confessed serial rapist who literally assaulted women in bathroom stalls. The author of the article knew this because they interviewed a trans woman telling them that. Instead of mentioning this, or leaving Lily Cade out of the article, they left said trans woman out of the article and claimed that "none of the high-profile trans people we asked for their opinion replied to our requests".
I agree but the BBC was never a progressive source and news cannot fundamentally be "objective".
the bbc is state-run propaganda for one of the most evil empires to ever exist in the known history of the universe
We’d be happy to require archived links for BBC links similar to what we do for Fox News or Breitbart, for example
I fucking wish. There might be a way to block BBC article via uBlock or something
Once upon a time the BBC was a liberal and progressive newsite that provided objective news and opinion.
It was definitely liberal but it most definitely did not ever provide objective news.
Literally re-edited footage of miner strikes to claim my family assaulted the police instead of police (and soldiers and their fascist friends dressed as cops) charging the picket lines on horseback.
Fuck the beeb.
I could go on a rant right now, but suffice it to say that "unbiased" means something very different at the BBC.
They also took a strong anti-Corbyn stance and published hit pieces calling him anti-Semitic. Idk if something changed or if I just didn't notice before but they're a total joke at this point, basically a tabloid imo.
