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Oct 22Liked by SEENinJournalism

I'm very cynical these days and always check stories. You'll be glad to know that your story is true. I did a search on BBC news for the last month and found this story from yesterday 21/10/2024. "Trans socialite did serve her jail term, Nigerian panel finds".. It had two tags, "Nigeria" and "Africa". I searched BBC using the "Transgender People" tag and found nearly 1000 stories and very few mentions of murderers or sex offenders. Even Andrew Miller, also known as Amy George, the Scottish butcher who kidnapped a girl last year had just one tag "Scotland". Perhaps someone at the BBC should run a story about this bias. I wonder what the tags would be?

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Thanks Barri. Highlighted on X 👍

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Oct 21Liked by SEENinJournalism

Fascinating, thanks! This article certainly explains a lot.

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Thank you!

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I've just submitted my response to the BBC's "What issues really matter to you" survey (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0z0y2z3mjo ) and mentioned this one. Though I'm not holding my breath for any sudden change of direction.

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Interesting. As someone with a small YouTube channel, and a small substack, it's interesting how both of them, in their creater (YouTube create page, Substack, dashboard) instructions, specifically say that adding tags doesn't help much in enabling readers to find you! This succeeded in putting me off adding tags! I've had my substack for a year, and still haven't worked out how to add tags!

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didn't realise we hadn't subscribed - just done that!

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Sounds like there are lots of enemy within. Sounds like it will continue, maybe get worse, until men get their balls back. May have to wait a long time for that, sadly.

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