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Radio 4 PM Gamers discuss boycotting JKR

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PaleBlueMoonlight · 02/02/2023 17:04

PM programme on now. Evan Davis says there will be an item where gamers discuss whether to boycott the new Hogwarts Legacy game.

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Clymene · 03/02/2023 09:15

Thanks @HagoftheNorth. Will have a listen on catch up. I've put in so many complaints to the BBC they probably have a special folder for me like Mrs Trellis of North Wales. I shall keep on keeping on though!

HagoftheNorth · 03/02/2023 08:46

Lizzie, I agree, might be worth a separate thread

HagoftheNorth · 03/02/2023 08:43

Clemente it was on the Today programme around 6.30, sorry, didn’t get an exact time stamp.
The only context seems to be ‘JKR has transphobic views’, there doesn’t seem to be any other reason for this being included in a news programme - I don’t think it’s true, and anyway it’s not really news is it?!

There is another thread - link below - where the OP (👋 Catiette) has written a really thoughtful complaint letter to the BBC, which was dismissed without any consideration at all

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4698199-complaint-to-bbc

LizzieSiddal · 03/02/2023 08:34

The complaint which spring to mind for me is actually the same issue as here. A presenter on Start The Week allowed a man to accuse JKR of having “transphobic views”. The presenter did nothing to correct him. Lots of complaints, he did apologies and said he’d made an error.

But here we are AGAIN!

LizzieSiddal · 03/02/2023 08:31

As others have said this is happening far too often on BBC, Im fed up of complaining!

Is it worth collecting a dossier of complaints we’ve made to the BBC, over the years (if we can remember!) and presenting it to them to show how awful their support of women’s rights really is?

Clymene · 03/02/2023 08:08

HagoftheNorth · 03/02/2023 06:55

interview repeated on Today this morning

What do you mean? In what context?m

HagoftheNorth · 03/02/2023 07:33

How have you complained - written?

Startoftheyear2023 · 03/02/2023 07:10

@fedupofbuilders mine too.

MoltenLasagne · 03/02/2023 06:57

This is ridiculous. I know JKR tries to ignore most of the noise, but I really think she needs to get the lawyers involved when the national broadcaster is allowing her to be slandered like this without correction.

HagoftheNorth · 03/02/2023 06:55

interview repeated on Today this morning

fedupofbuilders · 03/02/2023 06:24

My first ever complaint to the BBC
such bias is not acceptable

JustWaking · 03/02/2023 06:20

How is that tweet saying that it's troubling that JKR is still alive not malicious communications and arguably inciting violence?

How do they keep getting away with this whereas women are put through a whole police process for posting pictures of coloured ribbons attached to fences?

Do we need to start making more police complaints? Should we start inundating the police with the sheer amount of hate TRAs spew?

CatOutOfTheGoldLameBag · 03/02/2023 00:39

allthemissingfucks · 02/02/2023 20:34

Agreed, I find the BBC astonishing bias on this matter. There was and is no balanced debate on the BBC. It's not a trusted fair news source.

Yes. I don't know what to say, I've complained so often and received copy paste responses, from someone who either did not read the complaint or didn't care. Neither option shows BBC in a good light, nor did the bias that forced me to send in a complaint in the first place. What a shit show

AmigoDogs · 02/02/2023 21:37

Also complained.

Goldshelfie · 02/02/2023 21:25

Complained as well. I am also sick of this bias, and said as much!

allthemissingfucks · 02/02/2023 20:34

Agreed, I find the BBC astonishing bias on this matter. There was and is no balanced debate on the BBC. It's not a trusted fair news source.

Kalpatra · 02/02/2023 20:28

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 02/02/2023 17:10

As it's the BBC and "impartial", will they have on some of the people who don't game, don't even have a console, but are buying it anyway? (A fair few of these on threads here about hogwarts legacy)

I wonder.

The BBC is nowhere near impartial on this, it’s appalling. They do so many articles which basically read as an advert for being trans - “stunning and brave” etc.

Never seen a single article putting forward the gender critical point of view. 😐

NotRightNowNo · 02/02/2023 20:27

I have complained. I'm sick of this biased misogynistic shit from the bbc

GCAcademic · 02/02/2023 20:26

I hope JKR gets her lawyers onto them. Absolutely shocking.

Dymaxion · 02/02/2023 20:25

So this means either they were negligent in seeking balance or they're lying now because they're aware how much they've fucked up.

I am going to have to go with the latter, after listening to the piece. Not suprising but shocking all the same.

nauticant · 02/02/2023 20:11

As I wrote above, they've fucked up and it's clear that Davis knows this and will be trying to get ahead of the justified audience response to try to blunt it. But to claim that the programme didn't cast it in a way that would lead to JKR being slandered is hard to believe. A brief google of Stacey Henley makes clear what you're going to get. So this means either they were negligent in seeking balance or they're lying now because they're aware how much they've fucked up.

TheWitchesAreBackInTown · 02/02/2023 20:06

He's replied to For Women Scotland thread:

Lovely. Another highly skewed piece on @jk_rowling on @BBCPM with "Stacy" who is making unfounded accusations. @EvanHD making the most perfunctory efforts to intervene.

Radio 4 PM Gamers discuss boycotting JKR
Radio 4 PM Gamers discuss boycotting JKR
GCMM · 02/02/2023 19:31

I thought the programme was a disgrace and Evan Davies did not challenge the very biased speakers at all. I'm going to complain.