I think it's well known, but the details need retelling. It's possible even BBC journalists don't know that the self-identification mandate came originally as a direct and simple response to gender identity activism. The story has to be told.
The BBC has betrayed a nation with the gender bollox they’ve been spouting for much longer than I realised. Fabulous piece. I wish I could pin open the eyelids of everyone in the UK and force them to read this. Appreciate all your work!
This prompted me to dig up some feedback that I submitted to the BBC News website in December 2017:
"The site has gone insanely clickbaity over the past 12 months, prioritising - at least on the front page - banal human interest stories (or pseudo-stories) over informational relevance. It's offputting. You can't use clicks as a metric for your product, because it's not a product - it's a public service. You have fantastic journalists, so that's not the problem: it's a question of editorial decision-making. You need to stimulate readers and deliver reliable, responsible journalism that informs people and at best improves their critical thinking faculties, rather than titillatory emotive content of little news value that - in its tone and presentation - is becoming outright anti-intellectual in its venal appeal to emotion. You're not Buzzfeed or the Daily Mail and you shouldn't be trying to lower yourself to their level; you're better than that, and you're wrecking your own USP. Sober journalism doesn't have to be dry, and more opinion pieces and good news stories on the BBC News website would be good - just stop the facile human interest stories that aim to tug at people's heartstrings in a way that turns their brains to mush. Please. I absolutely wouldn't have said this just a couple of years ago because it wasn't the case then."
The stories of the Parent of these children are some of the most heartbreaking you'll ever hear. That the BBC have been instrumental in causing this destruction by fueling this cult is a stain on the organisation it should never be allowed to escape from.
That TIMs have been driving the narrative for years isn't a revelation, but stating it so clearly has a power of its own. Thank you.
Yes - everybody knows it but sometimes it feels like people become inured to it. We mustn’t let that happen.
I think it's well known, but the details need retelling. It's possible even BBC journalists don't know that the self-identification mandate came originally as a direct and simple response to gender identity activism. The story has to be told.
No argument from me there.
Thank for this, excellent, and really needed saying
The BBC has betrayed a nation with the gender bollox they’ve been spouting for much longer than I realised. Fabulous piece. I wish I could pin open the eyelids of everyone in the UK and force them to read this. Appreciate all your work!
Thank you so much!
This prompted me to dig up some feedback that I submitted to the BBC News website in December 2017:
"The site has gone insanely clickbaity over the past 12 months, prioritising - at least on the front page - banal human interest stories (or pseudo-stories) over informational relevance. It's offputting. You can't use clicks as a metric for your product, because it's not a product - it's a public service. You have fantastic journalists, so that's not the problem: it's a question of editorial decision-making. You need to stimulate readers and deliver reliable, responsible journalism that informs people and at best improves their critical thinking faculties, rather than titillatory emotive content of little news value that - in its tone and presentation - is becoming outright anti-intellectual in its venal appeal to emotion. You're not Buzzfeed or the Daily Mail and you shouldn't be trying to lower yourself to their level; you're better than that, and you're wrecking your own USP. Sober journalism doesn't have to be dry, and more opinion pieces and good news stories on the BBC News website would be good - just stop the facile human interest stories that aim to tug at people's heartstrings in a way that turns their brains to mush. Please. I absolutely wouldn't have said this just a couple of years ago because it wasn't the case then."
Wow - this is amazingly observant and prescient. Well done. What a fantastic complaint.
Absolutely agree. It's not 'what happened?', it's 'how do you feel?'. Emotional mush.
Thank you.
Who's reading all these Lived Experience articles? Aren't the British public over it yet?
Thanks, Cath, great reminder of the beginning of the 'trans' infiltration.
Have cross posted
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/hes-a-man-kellie-jay-keen
Dusty
Thank you Dusty
The stories of the Parent of these children are some of the most heartbreaking you'll ever hear. That the BBC have been instrumental in causing this destruction by fueling this cult is a stain on the organisation it should never be allowed to escape from.
Agree with you. Lives have been ruined. There must be accountability.