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The BBC broadcast censored an artistic statement at a huge, long-running arts event. They've even been attacked for not censoring another one on the same issue at the same event. If BBC agree to broadcast Glastonbury, and the programmers there decide it's legitimate to platform Bob Vylan or KneeCap, that's not for the BBC to judge or censor.
If you don't want to broadcast it, fine. Beep F-bombs if you must. But you don't get to pick and choose based on ideology or political expediency.
They're not trusted in Scotland anyway, they're seen as the official opposition who will lie, obscure and ignore
Are there other public media that are trusted in Scotland?
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The BBC broadcast censored an artistic statement at a huge, long-running arts event. They've even been attacked for not censoring another one on the same issue at the same event. If BBC agree to broadcast Glastonbury, and the programmers there decide it's legitimate to platform Bob Vylan or KneeCap, that's not for the BBC to judge or censor.
If you don't want to broadcast it, fine. Beep F-bombs if you must. But you don't get to pick and choose based on ideology or political expediency.
Thinking some more on the artistic freedom of #Glastonbury and its performers, and the press freedom #BCC has to broadcast whatever truly goes down, without fear or favour. Whether or not it has the spine to use it.
Legacy media clearly haven't learned the lesson that Indymedia and other online news networks started teaching them after 9/11. If you fail to report on something, your lies of omission will be exposed. Everyone knows BBC censored Glastonbury, and exactly what it was they omitted.
Me:
> Everyone knows BBC censored Glastonbury, and exactly what it was they omitted
Streisand Effect 101.
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When Holocaust survivors are implying that the Gaza genocide is *worse* than the Holocaust;
"Why in small ways? Because, he explains with signature empathy, he survived: 'Our experience, even with the fighting thrown in, and the war moving through us, was not as bad as what I can see the Gazans going through'.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25309584.holocaust-survivor-stephen-kapos-speaks-gaza-genocide/
... and you're a public broadcaster siding against the people of Gaza, you're clearly on the wrong side of history.
Heads must roll.
Also, why is @npr publishing Alice Through the Looking Glass war propaganda as if it's news?
"With a series of powerful blows to Iran and its proxies, Israel has reasserted its military dominance in the Middle East and reshaped the region less than two years after it was caught off guard in a surprise attack."
#GregMyre, 2025
"Greg Myre is a national security correspondent with a focus on the intelligence community ..."
https://www.npr.org/people/348766539/greg-myre
Ah.
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