Justin Webb Telegraph article, BBC journalists are up in arms

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/radio-presenters/justin-webb-trans-woman-complaint-bbc-meltdown/

Archive version here:
https://archive.ph/0gykB

Newsroom staff not happy at Justin Webbs treatment. Sounds like senior female journalists have had enough.

Good idea.

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Proponents of gender ideology and its twisted use of language have everyone walking on eggshells, just like an abusive person has his or her target on eggshells, terrified of triggering anger or assault.

Thing is it's tra creep, first they came for man/woman, so I retreated to male/ female to be kind, then they came for that and, having retreated once, I'd no leg to stand on, so I went to biological male/female. Fuck! They're still coming.

IW has stated that IWself is a biological woman. I don't believe if 'biological woman' became the standard to describe us ofck of women that we'd be permitted to keep it.

Butbutbutbut 'oppressed minority!'

There's a very interesting bit right at the end of Let Women Speak in Colchester the other day where a LWS organiser describes a frustrating conversation she had at a posh party a few years ago with a "very nice man called Tony" she met there who "used to be Director General of the BBC. Sir Tony Hall, I imagine. Definitely worth watching from about 43 mins.

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I'm starting to think we need some campaign where we don't go through the BBC Complaints process. Davie said he received very few emails complaining about their gender coverage. Maybe we should all send a good old fashioned letter with a stamp on it through the post to complain. Hundreds of letters sent directly to him.

BonnyBo · Yesterday 21:38

The BBC has long struggled with how to cover transgender stories, as staff clash in the newsroom and social media users criticise the corporation’s output. It was forced to admit that a 2021 online article claiming some lesbians feel pressured into sex by trans women did not meet its standards on accuracy after more than 10,000 complained about it.

It would seem that, by being highly accurate, the article did not meet the BBC's standards of accuracy, which must, therefore, order that lies are told, instead of the truth. Rather different to that of most news outlets, which tend to insist on the accurate truth.

Webb has told colleagues that he feels he has been “unfairly discriminated against by the BBC” and that he thinks “there is another agenda here”.

Yep

Follow up article in the Telegraph including Davie's appearance this morning..

https://archive.is/W2oGB

Warning: TD's response will not help the blood pressure.

You’re not wrong. I might need to take a tablet. If anything exposes the egregious bias at the BBC on this, it’s TD’s response.

As an aside, I am reading Justin’s autobiography which is very good

TD? Total doilem?

I know, I know...

Quote from that Telegraph article:
Webb has been embroiled in rows over trans issues in the past. In 2022, the journalist was found to be in partial breach of impartiality rules after he suggested that transphobia accusations against university professor Kathleen Stock were “false”.

He was right though, wasn't he? Wonder if that judgement was subsequently withdrawn?

Article in the Times:

The sooner the better.

@SabrinaThwaite in the initial response it said if I wasn't happy I could go back and move to stage 1b within 20 days. I'm sure I'll get the same response again - but I'm so fed up of this crap that I'm prepared to spend a lot of time complaining and working my way through their whole complaints process!

Webb has been embroiled in rows over trans issues in the past. In 2022, the journalist was found to be in partial breach of impartiality rules after he suggested that transphobia accusations against university professor Kathleen Stock were “false”.

He's clearly being specifically targeted. No one on the other side is considered "in breach of impartiality rules" even though they obviously are.

@WomanWithoutNeedOfPrefix

I responded to the first response from my BBC complaint and got the following reply:

This matter has been through the full BBC complaints process and the ECU’s published finding represents the BBC’s final view.

While your comments have been recorded and circulated on our complaints reports, we are unable to respond any further.

I think I may just C&P my complaint directly to Tim Davie, given that he seems to think that not many people had complained about this.

I emailed him direct but will now send him a letter.

I got a response to my email to Tim Davie:

Thank you for your email. We’re writing to confirm that your comments and feedback for the Director-General were received.

Yours sincerely,

The Office of the Director-General

Exactly! Evan Davies, for example, gets away with saying things that are far from 'impartial' 🤔

I wonder what happened to Evan Davis's series of features on "gender" on the PM programme? He was all for it, a number of features came along, then they, well, just seemed to stop, and there's been no mention since.

Maybe he realised that balance would get him endless broadsides from the trans activists, and that giving him what they would demand would give him problems with impartiality. Also, that any attempt to explain the ideology in a balanced way would be far too revealing.

For instance, I remember that after the Harry Miller court victory, the BBC had someone on from the police who said it was terrible for trans people that non crime hate incidents were being challenged. No balance whatsoever.

Thinking back to ED’s recent interview with David Bell, his utter incomprehension of what Bell was saying - that there was no such thing as a “trans child” was palpable. You could almost hear his mind rejecting it as unthinkable, and he persisted in his questioning accordingly.

Yes he couldn’t compute

David Bell was correct. I’ve thought it for a while and it was good to hear someone that informed say the same