A former BBC News boss says trans activist colleagues drove her out of her job. The Mail has more.
Fran Unsworth who was the Corporation’s Director of News and Current Affairs from 2018 to 2022 said the news division became “increasingly unmanageable” during her tenure because of a pressure to adopt what she called a “mono-perspective” on trans issues.
She said: “I would actually say it drove me out, just dealing with the progressive editorial issues and the bullying around them all. It was incredibly difficult.”
The former BBC executive delivered her criticisms in an interview with her former colleague Rob Burley which was published by the website UnHerd yesterday (Saturday).
Her comments will compound the worst fears of viewers who believe that the BBC has embraced a radical gender ideology which is out of step with mainstream public opinion.
Ms Unsworth, 68, said that BBC managers had to accept responsibility for an environment at the Corporation where radical views on trans and identity issues were normalised.
BBC news staff felt obliged to adopt a “kind” approach to the trans issues and trans people even at the expense of their own journalistic integrity.
She said: “There was a sea in which we all swam… an atmosphere. We need to be kind to transitioning people. It’s a social phenomenon. And I think this ‘be kind’ thing was at the heart of it.”
Asked if she thought that atmosphere had been a problem journalistically, she said: “I do, yes. I do.”
Ms Unsworth said news staff who sought to challenge this prevailing consensus came under an “awful lot of pressure” from colleagues in news, entertainment and drama who had embraced the “mono perspective” on trans issues. …
She said the BBC’s problems at the time had reflected the “progressive madness” engulfing other institutions.
She said: “This wasn’t something that just affected the BBC…The world went mad, and the BBC, because it is part of the world, went a bit mad with it. This was going on in every institution in society; there was a kind of national bullying going on.”
Worth reading in full – and if you can get behind the paywall, the original piece by Rob Burley in UnHerd, which the Mail story is based on, is well worth a read.
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Why is the Scepto printing this pr guff?
She was just as much of a political bigot herself. It’s called cannibalism, luv.
It is an odd thing for someone in her elevated position to admit having allowed herself to be bullied. As head of news or whatever wasn’t she in a position to do the bullying?
You never ever give in to bullies.
It only emboldens them and makes it worse.
Bullies are never appeased. You only stop them confronting them and fighting back, even at the cost of a bloody nose.
You’re breaking my heart girl. Hard cheese. Years and years of bias, of suppressing the Truth over Covid/Vaccines, Russia/Ukraine, Climate Propaganda, & labeling milliions of decent British people as “far-right” and “conspiracy theorists”, for years on end etc. etc. I shed no tears for you kiddo. Nothing. Nada. Niets.
I don’t think anybody working for the BBC can rise above a janitor’s position unless they
(a) hold and profess the most impeccably woke, “progressive”, left-wing ideas, AND
(b) are willing to adjust their views immediately and without the slightest hesitation to the ever-changing nature of these ideas.
In other words:
They accept that
(a) 2+2 = 3, or 5, depending on what the woke Illuminati proclaims for that day,
(b) Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania,
(c) War is peace. Slavery is freedom. A man is a woman.
I’m not sure you’d even hold down a janitorial role in a place like the BBC, without embracing the correct views about the ‘Right Side of History’?
Snake. Tail.