Paul Fox, the British television executive who commissioned iconic shows such as The Two Ronnies and Parkinson, has died aged 98.
20.03.2024 - 13:39 / deadline.com
The BBC has a duty to “be nice” amid the fraught debate about transgender rights, according to the UK broadcaster’s director general.
Tim Davie told lawmakers on Wednesday that the BBC’s detractors were attempting to whip up a “deeply damaging” narrative around the corporation’s output on gender identity issues.
He was giving evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid concern over a BBC complaint unit ruling against Radio 4 Today show presenter Justin Webb last month.
Webb was deemed to have broken editorial rules when he said “trans women, in other words males” during an item discussing whether biological males have an advantage in chess.
Davie was asked by Conservative MP Damian Green if the BBC was being “infused” by transgender ideology following the ruling against Webb.
The director general said BBC journalists are “doing a very good job” in difficult circumstances, but argued that Webb was guilty of “foot fault” in his language during the August 2023 broadcast.
David Jordan, the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, added in evidence to MPs that it was “unfortunate” that Webb didn’t “define his terms” more specifically.
“Had he said ‘biological male’ or ‘born male’ then it wouldn’t have been a problem. But as you know, it’s a very sensitive subject for trans women to be called male rather than female,” Jordan said.
“We need to steer very carefully through that difficult debate [and] make sure that we are not offending either side of it.”
Davie added: “We don’t have no-go areas in the BBC. To do that, we do demand of our journalists [that they] keep within the editorial guidelines. They’re not overly restrictive, they’re not one side … the other thing is we have to be kind and caring in
Paul Fox, the British television executive who commissioned iconic shows such as The Two Ronnies and Parkinson, has died aged 98.
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