Tim Davies Resigns - Can Gender Critical Movement take some credit?

My definition of ‘national broadcaster’ is not a North Korean one-channel propaganda machine. By no stretch of the imagination can the BBC, PBS, or ABC be called propaganda machines and you would be delusional to think so. If you did, however, remove broadcasters like this and allow channels like FOX and GB News to thrive - they are much closer in nature to propaganda, and many people haven’t been taught the ability to discern deep bias in news, or detect the difference between opinion and news.

I am saddened, but not surprised, that so many have been so deeply psychologically manipulated by greedy billionaires who don’t care about them and never will.

Anyone read Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed? Maybe the BBC could employ him as a consultant to reorganise around a culture of transparency and learning from mistakes instead of one of cancellations and defensiveness.

This. They’re too arrogant and sure of their righteousness. There will have to be some element of coercion involved.

There's very few that I'm seeing saying sorry.

Seems to be mostly utter outrage that anyone point out any issues and an absolute bullheadishness to concede that perhaps that the general public have a point.

If the tone from senior male journalists had been a bit more contrite and conciliatory, if women had been included in any of these panel discussions and if they didn't keep claiming that anyone pointing out issues has been brainwashed into a right wing plot, they'd be getting on better.

As it is, they just look like a bunch of petulant children after a telling off.

Well I agree, reform would to preferable to me.
My concern is that for reform to be possible, the BBC first needs to show awareness and insight into where and how things have gone wrong, and I’ve yet to see much sign of that happening.

We don't give a stuff who is threatening it. That is what you in your political purist spiral doesn't understand. We really don't give a fuck who does it. As long as it is threatened, and pressure brought to bear.

Yes, the BBC has made mistakes.

Lol mistakes? Mistake is mislaying your car keys, accidentally pouring orange juice instead of milk in your coffee, or an organisation's IT dept making a coding mistake and accidentally deleting their website.

The BBC made a deliberate decision, a deliberate intentional action to manipulate and edit speeches, and to not cover the most important medical scandal since Thalidomide or Ancient Orange.

This BBC didn't make 'mistakes'. They made deliberate decisions. Stop trying to minimise what they did. These were no mistakes!

Elon Musk/Trump/their cabal of billionaires have been working for a few years on the messaging of ‘defund the BBC’ or, in fact, plenty of other countries’ national broadcasters such as the PBS in the US and the ABC in Australia. If any sniff of a scandal occurs

So it's batshit crazy that the BBC would intentionally give them ammunition, then, isn't it?

Again, the BBC was in lock step with Conservative policy on this issue under May.

I see no signs of the BBC being able to even understand what the problem is, never mind fix it.

One thing I notice in life is that the left elites are totally unable to even articulate the viewpoints of the 'right' - they can only misrepresent them. They have been so captured by a sense of their own rightousness that despite all their protestations of being 'empathic' and 'listening', they literally cannot understand another point of view.

Examples are:

Expressing a concern about mass immigration = racist.

Expressing concern that Islam does not hold the same values towards women and homosexuality = islamaphobe
Expressing concern about men being in women's prisons = transphobe
Saying welfare cuts are needed and don't overall help people/nation = elitist
Saying people should get places at university / in a job, based on merit = exclusiionary

I could go on....but the point is that there is just an automatic labelling of people, a demonising with a 'bad name'. There is no attempt to understand a POV, no attempt to understand intentions and motivations, just an automatic dismissal and assumption that person = bad.

The BBC is literally full of these people, and they it will take a massive, huge undertaking to have these people even contemplate a different point of view - they have been so unused to it, never challeneged or felt discomfort when alternative views are heard. I don't hold much hope at all.

Imagine a person who supports Reform becoming the next DG at the BBC? It ain't ever ever happening.

I think they are 'of the left'

Almost always well educated. Surburban. Female, or what I call the 'Soy Boys'. Middle / chattering classes.

There is probably a cool name for them somewhere on t'internet that sums it up.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/10/the-bbc-has-gaslit-the-public-over-trans/

A very good summation of the damage Tim Davie has done by embedding trans ideology at the BBC. I think it’s going to play a major part in what happens next at the BBC.

I think they are 'of the left'

Almost always well educated. Surburban. Female, or what I call the 'Soy Boys'. Middle / chattering classes.

There is probably a cool name for them somewhere on t'internet that sums it up.

There's very few that I'm seeing saying sorry.

Seems to be mostly utter outrage that anyone point out any issues and an absolute bullheadishness to concede that perhaps that the general public have a point.

If the tone from senior male journalists had been a bit more contrite and conciliatory, if women had been included in any of these panel discussions and if they didn't keep claiming that anyone pointing out issues has been brainwashed into a right wing plot, they'd be getting on better.

As it is, they just look like a bunch of petulant children after a telling off.

I’ve not given up on the BBC yet but I’m seeing very few signs of self reflection beyond, ‘We made a mistake, soz’. It’s not good enough.

I agree, apart from the fact that I don't recognise that group as 'left'.

We need a different name for this movement. Authoritarian, soi-disant 'left', but in fact related far more to a very odd bundle of accepted orthodoxies.

I see no signs of the BBC being able to even understand what the problem is, never mind fix it.

One thing I notice in life is that the left elites are totally unable to even articulate the viewpoints of the 'right' - they can only misrepresent them. They have been so captured by a sense of their own rightousness that despite all their protestations of being 'empathic' and 'listening', they literally cannot understand another point of view.

Examples are:

Expressing a concern about mass immigration = racist.

Expressing concern that Islam does not hold the same values towards women and homosexuality = islamaphobe
Expressing concern about men being in women's prisons = transphobe
Saying welfare cuts are needed and don't overall help people/nation = elitist
Saying people should get places at university / in a job, based on merit = exclusiionary

I could go on....but the point is that there is just an automatic labelling of people, a demonising with a 'bad name'. There is no attempt to understand a POV, no attempt to understand intentions and motivations, just an automatic dismissal and assumption that person = bad.

The BBC is literally full of these people, and they it will take a massive, huge undertaking to have these people even contemplate a different point of view - they have been so unused to it, never challeneged or felt discomfort when alternative views are heard. I don't hold much hope at all.

Imagine a person who supports Reform becoming the next DG at the BBC? It ain't ever ever happening.

Yes, there are issues with the BBC - but the report is now public knowledge and hopefully will be acted on.

So the external scrutiny has been heard, admittedly in non ideal conditions. The system is sort of working