By tom guyton-day and edited by lauren mansey
I'm what you might call a long standing suffering defender of the BBC, having grown up watching all sorts of BBC produced television and radio and being spoon fed a daily dose of BBC News Online (it being forever the main source of news for the family). I've watched a copious number of superb documentaries and read incredibly insightful feature pieces, got angry over Brexit, and tweeted numerous times over stupid people on Question Time.
However, recently I’ve felt a huge backlash amongst the middle class over the BBC. For years the BBC presented the news and shied away from being controversial: it literally produced funny comedies, dramas, and most importantly the news in an impartial way, often under dangerous circumstances under the cover of darkness and flying bullets scarring the midnight setting. So impartial that it hit the golden rule of being hated by everyone collectively together with the two parallel phrases “the BBC is definitely left field” and “the BBC is definitely right-wing propaganda”. This rule maintained an element of trust – they’re probably just reporting the figures and keeping Government to account, on behalf of the people.
Now, however, the BBC seems to have adopted a mission statement, admittedly an admirable one, of producing vast quantities of content that highlights incredibly important news. Unfortunately, they’re doing it in an incredibly patronising way that may seem normal within the walls of the metropolitan area of London but is quite odd for those of us that are lucky enough to live outside the London Borough of Woke.
The BBC Sounds Team - one of the best units for producing good quality content might I add - put out a rather distasteful social media guide to “How can white women not be Karens?” Now, the point of the social media release was rather on point and tackled a major problem by explaining how white women are in a relatively privileged position in comparison to their black female counterparts (which I’m sure we can all agree is a problem), but what really is quite horrifying about this is the BBC using language like “Karens”.
However, recently I’ve felt a huge backlash amongst the middle class over the BBC. For years the BBC presented the news and shied away from being controversial: it literally produced funny comedies, dramas, and most importantly the news in an impartial way, often under dangerous circumstances under the cover of darkness and flying bullets scarring the midnight setting. So impartial that it hit the golden rule of being hated by everyone collectively together with the two parallel phrases “the BBC is definitely left field” and “the BBC is definitely right-wing propaganda”. This rule maintained an element of trust – they’re probably just reporting the figures and keeping Government to account, on behalf of the people.
Now, however, the BBC seems to have adopted a mission statement, admittedly an admirable one, of producing vast quantities of content that highlights incredibly important news. Unfortunately, they’re doing it in an incredibly patronising way that may seem normal within the walls of the metropolitan area of London but is quite odd for those of us that are lucky enough to live outside the London Borough of Woke.
The BBC Sounds Team - one of the best units for producing good quality content might I add - put out a rather distasteful social media guide to “How can white women not be Karens?” Now, the point of the social media release was rather on point and tackled a major problem by explaining how white women are in a relatively privileged position in comparison to their black female counterparts (which I’m sure we can all agree is a problem), but what really is quite horrifying about this is the BBC using language like “Karens”.
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