BBC breaching impartiality

I've been trying to Tweet Tim Davie, Director General, about this but can't find his handle. Journalists shouldn't be encouraged to be lobbyists when working for an organisation that's grounded in impartiality. It's fine to go off and establish a career as a crusading journalist independently, as someone like John Pilger has done but not under the 'impartial' banner of the Beeb.

Presumably at least one of the new intake being trained by Global Butterflies knows this and leaked details of the training to Stephen Nolan. Cheers to them.

The BBC really needs to sack their D&I team and start again. They are bringing the organisation into disrepute. I notice that the Global Butterflies website is currently unavailable. I have a vague recollection thet Bobbi Pickard is involved, but may have that wrong. Anyone else know?

Global Butterflies' website is down!

Charter?

Do complain. Obviously they will fob you off but they still read them and count them

@Tiphaine post, the link just took me to the front page, not a criticism I appreciate the attempt. However, while on their I notice a headline about a group wanting to give irreversible gender drugs to under 14s. I can't read the article, does anyone know anything about this? Sorry, for any derail but I don't want to start a new thread with such limited info.

On thread, I'm going to complain about this nonsense at the Beeb. It has to be against their thingy.

There are people with the power and the salaries to say no to this kind of thing. They don't do it. They choose not to.

A diversity and inclusion manager DID attend. And raised no objections.

This is horrendous. If they get rid of Global Butterflies as they did with Stonewall then some other group will come in and this will never end. The BBC needs fixing with legislation. I know people mock Nadine Dorries but at least she sees there is a problem with the elitist ivory tower attitudes. BBC management do not seem to see this however.

After all the problems with Stonewall why did no BBC manager attend this training to see what was being delivered? Or did a manager attend and not see a problem with it? And if so why is that not being addressed?!

Nolan is doing such a good job on this. I can think of few U.K. presenters who would be able to raise the questions he has without being cancelled.

The BBC got Global Butterflies in when they dropped Stonewall. I expect this was due to a hysterical reaction by the staff LGBT+ network, and management not being able to stand firm.

This is a problem not just in the BBC but in many private companies. Young graduates set up identity-based groups to campaign for ‘social justice’ for these ‘marginalised’ groups. They believe that the world is full of injustice and campaign with righteous zeal to convert everyone to their cause. They declare Safe Spaces, to protected against heresy and dissent.

It is very difficult for management to refuse to have an LGBT+ staff network, or to refuse the recommendations of these moral crusaders, as who wants to be accused to homophobia/transphobia?

Useful link, Nolan and Thompson are doing great work

For anyone interested, here's the link to the Nolan Show report and discussion. It starts at 1:03 in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0cf0rqf

Interestingly, Ben Cohen from Pink News says (12:10 minutes in) that they use the same outside provider, Global Butterflies, for their own trans and binary training sessions.

Too many Millennial journalists don't know how to separate their job from campaigning. Half of them think that their job IS campaigning.

Anyway unusually this was a young journalist blowing the whistle, at great personal risk. The fault lies with management very high up in the BBC. They could have stopped it but chose not to, they forced a young journalist to risk his or her career just to make sure the BBC is impartial. Hundreds of thousands of pounds is spent on the salaries of ppl whose LITERAL JOB is to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen. It's their literal job and they failed spectacularly *

*none of them will be reprimanded in anyway I would put hard cash on that

It's the idea that journalists can now become campaigners which is the worrying element and tends to be prevailing viewpoint of millennial journalists.

We saw how during Covid the media were essentially lobbying the government and could quickly create campaigns that the public got on board.

ITV have recently done it with Emily Bridges (although I think that was more related to finding another criticism of the PM, rather than a campaign for trans rights).

Great work by Nolan Show.

Comes as no surprise. The licence fee needs to be abolishes ASAP. Sadly Auntie Beeb has eaten herself from the inside. No longer relevant in this day and age

Of course it breaches impartiality, and senior management are entirely to blame

I don't understand how this doesn't breach basic journalistic ethics.

It's generally considered unethical for journalists to do work that means they somehow benefit financially through their work - there was a radio show host here who was making some money on the side selling paintings to peoplle he knew through his work connections at the CBC. He was fired.

Isn't lobbying actually worse than that?

Stephen Nolan has done outstanding work on the issue of corporate capture by Stonewall et al.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9c9a8fce-ed84-11ec-b47a-cf598c451bbb?shareToken=2b6daa61e292317c15a5ce5acb5f14ad

I don't think the BBC have any integrity left. They're just seedy propaganda merchants now.