AIBU to really struggle to understand what on earth is actually going on in this BBC article?

[BlueJuniper94]

Is it just me or is this very confusing

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg34410dx7o

Are you prepared to give any sort of clue as to what the article is about?

I don't want to click on a random link.

Umm, it is fairly clear It had been alleged there was a inappropriate drinking culture within the workplace at Bangor Cathedral.

@Ginmonkeyagain Thank you (or are you replying to the OP?).

It's fairly clear. What are you struggling to understand?

Edited to add that judging by the other comments on this thread, it may have been updated. No lists or bullet points on the link that I clicked on.

It's oddly written. It's like it still at "notes" stage, ready to be written as a full article.

Mistake publishing done think?

Yes, but it's just like it's a bullet point list if statements,yet to be written as copy... Weird

The opening paragraphs are a bit confusing but if you read on I think it's fairly clear that there is a culture of heavy drinking around the cathedral that has lead to sexual assaults and other inappropriate behaviour.

They've just printed their notes. No introduction, no context and missing words.

I can't help but smile at the irony of Esme Byrd saying Esme was concerned about the language used around the children in the choir, and a culture where sexual boundaries were blurred. Esme's concerns for the children's wellbeing is sweet but perhaps a bit one-sided on that score.

Yeah that looks like they've just lobbed in all the quotes without really writing an article at all!

There’s debauchery in the diocese!

I wonder if it was written in Welsh and someone used some kind of second rate translation app to put it into English.

Blimey!

Paranoid much? It’s clearly a link to a bbc article. Or do you not trust them?

I can understand it, but it is very badly written. It looks like a first draft.

I'm not sure why this is headline news?

It is really confusing without context. Feels like you're coming in halfway through a conversation. A bit "Sharon was T-Rexing in the supermarket".

I think it is assuming that you're already aware of the context of the case. It sounds like it has been covered widely in Welsh media, and when a case is covered widely you do often get articles which assume all readers know what is being referred to. I'm not in Wales and this is the first I've heard of it - if I wanted to know about the start of it, I think I'd click on the link about halfway down showing related articles, the one titled "Church in Wales calls for investigation of diocese" - how annoying, I can't stop this being a link now, but anyway, that seems to be the most likely title to take me to the start of the story.

You really don't think that a load of pissed up priests doing 'the seven shots of Christ' and operating in a culture of blurred sexual boundaries is front page news?

I'm not paranoid, just wanted to have an idea what it might be about to gauge whether it was of interest to me.

I did click the link after @Ginmonkeyagain clarified and it's weird - I'm seeing a perfectly "normal" article, not notes or bullet points as others are describing.

It's a very poorly written article. You need to get three quarters of the way through it before it starts to make any sense but there does seem to be a point to it eventually.

It’s a shame it’s had such serious repercussions (the alleged sexual assaults). Otherwise it sounds like something out of Father Ted- “seven last shots of Christ” ffs! I didn’t even think Anglicans went in for transubstantiation?

BBC articles are extremely poorly written, and it's clear that nobody ever proofreads either their own work or the work of others. It's disgraceful.

I read several articles daily and keep a running tab on poorly worded sentences, misspellings, repetitions of sentences, terrible grammar, and other spectacular failures of the written language.

It's almost my little hobby. I'm up to three quatlrters of a legal pad at this point, having started in the early Spring.

What irony? Regardless of your opinion on her gender identity, she's right to be concerned and clearly she wasn't the only one. From the description it was an inappropriate environment for children. There's no allegation that she did anything wrong.

(Except exist as a possible trans woman, according to you, I guess)

It’s a badly written article with the usual BBC shoehorning of a man pretending to be a woman added in. Though I suppose that’s because they couldn’t find a drag queen.

What do you think will happen if you click on a link to a BBC news article that doesn't interest you?

Sadly, proper journalism barely exists any more. Not enough people are paying for the news they read to support experienced writers (and particularly subs and editors) on decent salaries.

I was so shocked by the standard of writing on a Mail Online page 1 article today that I nearly started a thread on here about it. I'm tempted to start a little hobby on recording shocking journalism like you @mathanxiety !