Posted on 11/10/2025 2:57:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
The BBC has upheld 20 impartiality complaints over the way presenter Martine Croxall altered a script she was reading live on the BBC News Channel, which referred to "pregnant people" earlier this year.
Croxall was introducing an interview about research on groups most at risk during UK heatwaves, which quoted a release from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
The presenter changed her script to instead say "women", and the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said it considered her facial expression as she said this gave the "strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial matter."
The presenter said: "Malcolm Mistry, who was involved in the research, says that the aged, pregnant people … women … and those with pre-existing health conditions need to take precautions." The ECU said it considered Croxall's facial expression laid it open to the interpretation that it "indicated a particular viewpoint in the controversies currently surrounding trans identity."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
AP, Reuters, UPI, and broadcast networks, all have “approved and authorized words and phrases manuals” for writing news stories and broadcasting networks producers use in scripts and teleprompters. Therefore sanitized propaganda is the news product.
There are no such things as pregnant people. Pregnant women, yes, or just say pregnant and we all know it is a woman.
Did they fire her.
“a controversial matter.”
Controversial to WHO?? To maybe 1% of the population that buys into this crap? The patients are running the looney bin.
How in the world could it ever be controversial to state women are the ones who get pregnant? Oh, sorry I forgot insanity reigns.
Which means they are all pushing an agenda and not to be trusted as impartial news source.
Biology will not be denied in the real world.
This is so freakin’ STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no such thing as a “pregnant man”...PERIOD!!!!!
It doesn’t matter what some of the “woke” people think or say about this issue....
But they are the people whose opinions matter.
Yep. And that any journalists would submit and comply with such an “approved words and meanings manual” is by default, not a free press.
At best, the Beeb needs to be Phoenixed.
Or a male as a non-impregnable person?
I was just in Seattle. The public men’s room bathrooms all have free tampon dispensers.
Hey BBC! Only biological WOMEN can become pregnant.
They have that in several places now...
I don’t understand what is wrong with these people...
Sick mo’fo’s!!!!!!
Apparently mental illness is a required skill at the BBC.
It is either a pregnant woman, or a pregnant woman with gender dysphoria.
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