Why is 'Oasis warn against ticket resale' on BBC News, yet the Taliban banning women from TALKING outside, no?

It’s not just sex apartheid in Afghanistan. Women have been silenced, imprisoned, cancelled in fact completely erased as people. This is far more extreme than race apartheid ever was. Women are being kept worse than slaves, worse than dogs. At least dogs can bark. It’s not just breaching their human rights, it’s deleting their existence as human beings. It’s so awful to comprehend, I agree with you OP why is the world not calling it out, where’s the pop songs, the demonstrations?

Oasis reunion = man bites dog = news.

Taliban down on women = dog bites man = not news.

QED,

It’s like the Gaza conflict and the Russian invasion -terrible but unfixable -so they drop down the agenda

Both are being reported.
Both are news.
Denying people enjoyment in the UK won't stop the heinous things happening.
Stop virtue signalling.

Really the idea of ‘featured on BBC News’ is meaningless - there is no single entity called BBC News. There is no overall editorial strategy covering everything from news online (aimed at millennials and Gen Z who mostly access news on their phones) - to the Radio 4 twice daily analysis in Today or PM (a dwindling audience of boomer current affairs addicts) - and everything in between - BBC Breakfast, BBC 1 News, Newsnight, BBC News 24, etc.

There is no “most watched” - there’s ITN (who provide ITV and Channel 4 news), SkyNews, GBTV, random YouTube channels - all targeted at different audiences. The BBC has inherited the expectation as the “national broadcaster” that they can succeed in being all things to all people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c97e668pdnwt

I don’t think that anyone is disputing that the Taliban are beyond contempt.

But realistically there is nothing that can be done other than campaigning.

It’s not like Russia or South Africa where you can implement sanctions. Afghanistan don’t export anything we want, and we don’t have reason to do business with them.

More trivial news:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror

The situation there since August 21st isn't just "typical" or "trivial" misogyny - it's women now being required to completely cover their faces and bodies and no being allowed to raise their voices or read aloud in public.

I think the way the Taliban operate is appalling, but the reality is that that is life in Afghanistan.

We can have an opinion on it that things should change, but it’s not up to us to enter other countries and dictate t them how they should live.

We wouldn’t welcome the Taliban coming into the uK and starting to demand that women stop being educated and working and talking, and as hard as it is that goes both ways.

Feeling one country has the right to enter another to force a culture/lifestyle has the ability to rapidly turn into a “be careful what you wish for” situation.

Christ. No wonder women's rights are going backwards.

Thank you for proving my point.

As a citizen, voter and tax payer in the UK I believe it is my responsibility to do whatever I can to make life better for other women in the UK.

What I can do is limited because I am.just one person, but I hope that my contribution will add to that of many others, and we will gradually make progress.

I have no levers to influence what is happening in Afghanistan. I think the way women and girls are being treated is appalling, but given I have no influence over the situation, why would I want it to stay in the News for weeks on end?

Just as I have no influence over e.g. FGM in countries where that is practiced.

Maybe women are sick of other women complaining we are not being women right

Yeah let's all hear more about all the murder and wars and throw some other atrocities in that other countries are doing to their people we don't want good or relevant to more of the British people so we all go 'aww how terrible' switch off we have done our bit now moving on

Let's suck all anything good in the news and throw it out the window

Trivial?

I’m not really interested in trivial affairs in other countries so it seems fair enough. I don’t really care about traffic light timings in Paraguay or abortion rights in Hawaii either.

Middle East? Central Asia surely @daliesque

Where are you OP? are you doing something else rather than updating this thread?

So you don't really care about Afghan women since something else is distracting you away from this thread?

I obviously don't mean that but you see how silly it is to suggest someones focus, the UKs focus or the BBCs focus being on something else means they don't care?

Or maybe people and even News outlets have a myriad of things to think about. care about, talk about and publish?

And one doesn't cancel out any others?

And interfering in the Middle East never works out well for us.

People in Britain are talking about Oasis and clicks equal revenue. It’s going to be like the Taylor Swift concerts with daily updates once the actual concerts play together with “interest” pieces like people cosplaying the band or businesses cashing in with merch. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for a British broadcaster to focus on what British people are interested in. I think that the BBC shouldn’t be funded by tv license anyway so focusing on raising revenue is a good thing.

In order for the Taliban to become top story, they need to do something surprising like lift restrictions for women. People know that they are about the subjugation of women so aren’t shocked that they are going increasingly more extreme. It’s also not surprising that the media aren’t asking wtaf the point of the war was and to re-examine the shot show of the withdrawal onwards. What lessons should have been learned? Considering a possible Trump presidency what similarities are we likely to see in Ukraine?

I think that most people are savvy enough to know that you can’t rely on one news source and that if you want to keep up with the news then you need to watch/read several sources. These days It’s definitely not unusual to look up a story after someone irl or on social media bring it up rather than read the newspapers or watch the news on tv at least once a day.