Are the BBC about to leave Stonewall?

Scared was when Saville, Johnathan King and Stuart Hall were prowling the corridors at Beeb Towers.

Scared was when Ed Murrow broadcast live from the BH Balcony while the bombs were falling.

Scared was Frank Gardiner begging for his life after being shot. Wynford Vaughan Thomas on the Normandy Beaches. Richard Dimbleby at Belsen. Steve Evans inside the World Trade Center on 9/11.

When Dorries says the BBC might not be around in ten years, she might have a point.

Maybe I could make a fortune consulting with them about 'succession planning' and 'ensuring the skills stay embedded' and other such wankery if that would be such news to them.

What sliding back?

Does that certificate in the staffroom have some magic powers that means that the second they don't renew membership its like shaun of the dead and everyone walks around like zombies am forgets how to behave?

If I'd spent thousands of pounds and hours of my time.filling out paperwork only for everyone to forget everything so instantly, I'd be questioning the quality of any training given tbh.

Me thinks they are more worried they will.prove the whole thing unnecessary more like. Amd that they have pissed away thousands for no reason

'Super scared'.

Apparently the statement was released by CBEEBIES, and no one was around to use grown up words.

'If things are really as bad at the BBC as the interviewee suggests, it doesn't seem as if being in the Stonewall programme all this time has achieved much'

Yup. Obviously time to try something different that may work better. And this time not get involved with a partisan political lobby that biases you when you have a duty to provide service to the whole of your (captive) customers and not just the ones you politically agree with.

Wasn't there some advert campaign years back about "what's the worst that could happen?" Trying Dr Pepper, I think.

Need something like that to explore what might happen if the BBC were to leave the Stonewall programme.

Scared my backside. I’ve known a few people who have worked at the beeb and it’s very ‘gay friendly’. No one bats an eye. So scared of what? Missing out wasting time doing ‘stonewall stuff’ and bullying women?

Super scared, why ffs 🙄 Surprised the standard go to 'unsafe' wasn't pulled out of the bag too.

This organisation are not owed anyone's money or anyone's time. They do not have the monopoly. There are other resources for ensuring equality, it's not them or nothing.

But yes I'll wait to see if it comes from another news source!

I don't blame the BBC, or any other organisation, for joining Stonewall when they may have believed it was genuinely working for equality. But its present role in trying to overturn women's rights has been known for so long that there's no excuse now.

I do hope so.

And I’d love to be the stats geek who looks at the CBA vs ‘investment’ of ££ and staff time - and the brand damage done.

Oh yes, I’d love to get my teeth into that project. I’d do graphs and charts and everything!

I'm not giving him the clicks, but this sort of rumour headline sounds like it's devised to instigate a social media pile-on to try to head the BBC off at the pass.

My brain apparently has an unconscious hyperbole filter, because I read that as "quite scared" the first few times...

'In further evidence that Ben Hunte can't write for shit he used, 'super scared' as his quote, thus undermining the very sense of impending threat he intended to create and giving the impression that his 'source' was a work experience student.'

God the quotes in that article were beyond hyperbole.

I"d like to believe it is true, but given the standards of Hunte's journalism I will wait to hear from a vaguely credible source.

If things are really as bad at the BBC as the interviewee suggests, it doesn't seem as if being in the Stonewall programme all this time has achieved much. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh, I do hope so! 🤞