To urge you all to get in touch with the BBC ...

[TheMartorialist]

... about this poor excuse for journalism on their website?

Yes, there are several more important things happening in the world, but I shall be shamelessly bumping this up throughout the day.

YANBU

ah! OK.

So are you saying that this journalist should not be allowed to give his opinion because it differs from yours.
Do you believe in censorship of minority opinion?

I believe you are able to add your comments to the article.

Oh if only it were a minority opinion, moonstoneZoe. African media is wall-to-wall with shit like this.

There's a thread on here at the moment, Why would a woman not be a feminist? A lot of the answers are, "Because I've been taught feminism is about mean nasty women, not nice women like me."

I remember one story about a woman who made it from her village to college. Normal inspirational stuff? It went on to crow she hadn't got a job from her course and would now have to live under her father's roof for ever, because no man would marry an uppity educated woman. Complete with sorrowful father saying if only he'd realised what he was doing he would never have ruined his beloved daughter by allowing her an education.

This story was deemed such a good lesson, it was syndicated to southern Africa from the east African paper for which it was written.

The BBC article is opinion, and doesn't cross my personal line of inciting violence. But it's still disappointing to see here.

bemybebe, i agree with you on point a then. he is free to voice his opinion, free speach, etc. on point B i realise the OP didn't raise it as an issue, it was just something that struck me as odd that it got past the BBC quality controls. Salman Rushdie is ok because whilst i may not share his opinion of various things, i'm sure he doesn't spout half-edited misogynistic rants AND ask the BBC to provide a free place for them on its otherwise generally high quality website.

to summarise: okay with contrary opinions, not ok with half formed contrary ones taking up valuable space on BBC turf.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to challenge a major publisher for putting out something that's badly written, to be honest.

Rushdie would never have been published at all if he hadn't been able to write.

frgr, ok, then we almost in agreement... i also do not like spending my time on unprofessional badly argued material, though i do not think that is in itself a reason to formally 'censor' it from outside. i think it is in the interest of the publisher (BBC) to quality control their material