Radio 4 PM Gamers discuss boycotting JKR

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

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. 😐

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.

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

Also complained.

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

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?

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

interview repeated on Today this morning

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.

@fedupofbuilders mine too.

How have you complained - written?

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

What do you mean? In what context?m

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?

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!

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

Lizzie, I agree, might be worth a separate thread

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!

Thank you born the complaints page I found said letters only, and there was no postal address immediately obvious - I was just gearing up to go looking, this is much better 😀

I've complained too. It was a new low, even for Evan Davis who has form.

I think that depends on the age. DD is late teens and HP is not to be mentioned at school. Although she is buying the game, but won't tell anyone.

Just came on to see if there was a thread about this. Listened to this piece while driving yesterday and ended up shouting at the radio.

The piece from the start worked from the unchallenged assumption that the whole of society regards JKR as transphobic and the only question up for debate was if it was acceptable to "separate the art from the artist."Absolutely no balance whatsoever, just the opinions of two obvious TRAs with the only slight nod to the existence of other opinions being a throwaway remark by Evan. Davies that we should note that JKR doesn't herself think she is transphobic. Clearly no attempt was made to find speakers to put the other side of the debate.

News flash Evan, there are many, many people around the world who agree with JKR. This was one of the most blatantly unbalanced pieces of reporting I have heard in a long time and Evan really needs to be brought to account on this.

Shame on you BBC.

They pick female avatars in the games and start to believe they can do the same in real life too.

Yes I think this is a large part of it.

It's £50 a copy, you must be in a very fortunate position to waste a couple hundred pounds at a time when lots of people are struggling to eat or pay bills.

Even if LGBT-supportive people do want to play this game, maybe it will be shared around on torrents or the pirate bay.

Ha ha ha!! How dare you decide what to spend your own money on, @NeverTrustAPoliceman !