#bbc journalism

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bbc talking about Chinese film:

bbc: this is functionally a propaganda piece, and the basis of our propagandist red scare headline is a single imdb review!

?????

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I know this is a very minor criticism compared to the racism, transphobia, genocide apologism, legitimising of fascist violence etc but something else I've noticed about the BBC recently is they just do not bother putting any effort into any article relating to the railways

So many use outdated images, muddle simple details, and often outright just act as a platform for opponents to any rail project - see this one for example in which the 'analysis' from the BBC completely derails the focus of the article to talk about roads instead https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2mnz9xejyo - as a transport advocate it pisses me off no end

Look ofc there are bigger and smaller issues but those are features of subpar journalism! the news that peddles itself as peak journalism and objective fact to keep people informed invested in its representation of issues should not be muddling details or using misleading images! I don't have the knowledge of rails or transportation infrastructure generally to add much to this but I welcome any details.

The aforementioned "analysis" on an article headlined "Railway sorely in need of investment, study finds" is below for the curious.

[squidclaude]

Seeing ‘we used ai to write this article and had a journalist check it’ on a BBC article is infuriating enough, the fact that it is an article on domestic violence is just nauseating

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honestly this is just a weirdly long noun phrase to have as the subject of a headline. you keep waiting for the verb and it's all the way at the end