#bbc reporting

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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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Laura Kuensburg apparently called what’s happening in America a “scuffle”.

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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So many use outdated images, muddle simple details, and often outright just act as a platform for opponents to any rail project - see this one for example in which the 'analysis'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.

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how on earth does this get published?

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incredible and accurate reporting from bbc reporters who definitely know what autism is

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Indigenous peoples have lived in and moved thru Yosemite since time immemorial but the bbc's chronic colonizer mindset is incurable

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BBC news articles on Indigenous peoples never fail to disappoint

""ancient society"" so the Chumash. you tell us right there in the article it's the Chumash, the living people whose land that is.

while we're on the topic why tf do you think they're little-known 🤔 🤔🤔🤔 nothing to do with how Native ppls in "California" have been treated??

what if we didn't make the first peoples of Turtle Island "settlers" and make a false equivalence white settlement and theft

what if you didn't instroduce the article, the Chumash, and their lands via a completely made up and racist childrens book????

the article ends with this summary quote, any element of which could have been incorporated into the headline, subheader, or open paragraph, which people actually look at: "

"These are Chumash lands and it feels important that we educate the public about that. The Chumash live today, they are part of society and are still alive and well today. They are not the past, they are here now, a culture that's thriving, and they are sharing the cultural traditions with the younger generations."