Ex-BBC editor exposes how activist ideology and DEI captured broadcaster: 'Staff were asked to lie'

GB News - News

source • 1 mention

Ex-BBC editor exposes how activist ideology and DEI captured broadcaster: 'Staff were asked to lie'.

Supported by 1 story

Rob Burley, who previously served as the BBC's Director of Political Programmes, has spoken to GB News about how trans lobby groups deployed intimidation as a deliberate strategy to shut down discussion.According to Mr Burley, anyone who dared raise even minor questions about transgender issues was immediately branded as "transphobic" or "hateful".He told GB News contributor Will Kingston: "It's a very powerful thing to do, to call people those names and they would rather not get involved, rather step back from it and avoid that than go into a situation where they might be exposed to it, and that was the modus operandi."The former BBC executive acknowledged that this approach left people "genuinely intimidated," adding that he understood why they felt that way.

Supported by 1 story

TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Mr Burley recounted his own experience attending a gender-critical feminist gathering in the early stages of the debate, where organisers were forced to announce the venue at the last possible...

Supported by 1 story