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There are 11 posts tagged: fearless and favourless BBC

Blackpool has three piers…and a tower: 10 September 2025; Jamie Borthwick is a British soap opera actor. Or, rather, a former soap opera actor, since he's been shitcanned by the BBC for using a derogatory term for disabled people, and Blackpudlians, while on set in the jewel of Lancashire. And at that very tower, no less.
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A chink of light: 7 July 2025; Cierra Ortega (who?) has left Love Island USA after historic social media posts resurfaced, mentioning a derogatory term for Chinese people. In keeping with the BBC's policy of reporting without fear or favour, Riyah Collins doesn't go so far as to specify the term, not even in veiled form. But the Hindustan Times was a little more forthcoming:
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Pulling up the ladder: 9 April 2025; Tony Smith and Angus Crawford are at it again, the it being investigating a US-based pro-suicide forum. Possibly the same one they've reported on before.
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Circling the wagons: 30 March 2025; As Disney's Snow White enters its second weekend in theatres, the PRPP sets one of its culture reporters, Noor Nanji, to explore the toxic debate surrounding the film. The result, however, appears to be nothing more than running cover for its star, Rachel Zegler, who's copping most of the flak for the film's implosion at the box office.
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Making porn: 1 August 2024; The man who made solemn announcements on behalf of the BBC, but was later found to have been a bit of a pervert on the side, is now unmasked as a lot of a pervert. I do believe, however, that the charge of making k¡ddypr0n images is misleading. And, for once, this isn't the fault of the BBC's sloppy editorial standards.
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Ukrainian poisoner: 1 March 2024; The BBC's fearless investigators Angus Crawford and Tony Smith have tracked down a Ukrainian selling poison used by suicides in the UK. In the best interests of reporting [cough] without fear or favour, the BBC is choosing not to name the poison in question. (rolleyes)
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'Racist' royals: 1 December 2023; Okay, so we all know that the marriage between Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle was not without controversy. And then a baby came along.
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Bringing home the bacon: 25 August 2023; A BBC News story on the arrest of a Canadian accused of assisting suicide, through the sale of kits across the globe, coyly referred only to them including a poisonous chemical, without identifying said chemical. Presumably, this is for our safety.
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Government-funded anti-government media: 10 April 2023; A couple of days ago, Twitter designated NPR as state-affiliated media, although it has since backtracked slightly, amending its label to government funded media. At the time, I wondered how long it would take for the BBC to be assigned a new label.
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'P' for Paki(stani)…?: 23 January 2023; Another nonword requiring investigative sleuthing to demystify the message. Although in this case only further (skip-)reading was needed to gather the clues together.
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Cotton candy correspondents: 14 June 2022; It kinda irritates me when news is reported with holes in it, to avoid causing offence to some cosseted group or other.
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