I giornalisti della BBC non possono indossare magliette Black Lives Matter in redazione, afferma Tim Davie
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/20/bbc-reporters-black-lives-matter-t-shirts-newsroom-tim-davie
di cennep44
I giornalisti della BBC non possono indossare magliette Black Lives Matter in redazione, afferma Tim Davie
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/20/bbc-reporters-black-lives-matter-t-shirts-newsroom-tim-davie
di cennep44
23 commenti
I have no issue with this at all. In their private lives they can hold whatever political opinions they want but in the newsroom they should be objective professionals. Because which the BBC is supposed to be a professional organisation and it’s staff should dress appropriately.
No political slogans is a pretty universal workplace rule.
They’re going to impartial themselves into irrelevancy if they don’t have common sense approach without curtailing a right for reporters to where what they want (as long as it doesn’t break their uniform rules)
Imagine the quit South African apartheid movement existed in 2025. BBC would be like it’s divisive rhetoric we can’t have individuals supporting the ending of apartheid and cover the topic at the same time
Just very moronic and he picked black lives matter because if he said Israel Palestine that would have got much more heat and pushback.
So it’s a minimisation of what black Brits and black Americans feel is a very important issue. Unfair treatment by the culture and the state
Not a very current cause, I’ve not seen a t-shirt like that in some time.
I really dont see this as an issue. The BBC is meant to present as unbiased and neutral a persona as possible. With no commentary on anything, they’re meant to provide facts and neutrality.
They fail miserably at this every day, but they should work towards maintaining that level of neutrality regardless of how virtuous or not the cause may be.
The BBC are the most unbiased but clearly biased news channel going.
Black Lives Matter was an actual scam, I agree with the statement black lives matter of course they matter, but the BLM “charity” was a scam.
Nothing here is saying people can’t support it, it’s just not advocating wearing a uniform for it and shouting it out in everyone’s face. It’s the same rules for a lot of other political things in the BBC. In addition to this, why wear a T-shirt for it in the first place when you can just dress in normal office attire and contribute normally to the workplace without making every last little thing about political agenda. Time and a place.
When will Tim Davie declare the BBC will stop over-promoting Farage, Reform U.K. and their power obsessions about asylum seekers arriving on dinghies across The Channel??
Good. Stop importing American social movements. In a year when a global pandemic happened I still think one of the most bizarre things to happen in 2020 was people in this country shouting “Defund the Police” having spent the previous decade moaning about Tory austerity.
If this is a new rule, I am amazed that anyone was ever allowed to wear political slogans at the BBC, which is meant to be impartial.
>Speaking about diversity and impartiality at the BBC at the Cheltenham literature festival, Davie also drew a parallel with impartiality when reporting on mainstream political campaigning.
“I feel very, very strongly that if you walk into the BBC newsroom, you cannot be holding a Kamala Harris mug when you come to the election – no way, that’s not even acceptable,” he said.
I don’t think this is big news or a new policy or anything, sounds like they’re just having a mutual chin wag. I don’t think anyone got in trouble at the time.
Davie also announced a ban on shitting on colleagues’ desks and shouting “Shazam” during broadcasts.
When queried on why he’s introducing these measures, he claimed “these things are happening right now and when I told staff about the changes everyone clapped”.
I can’t even wear a football shirt at my place to stop any commotion
Not wearing political clothing in the workplace seems pretty standard to me.
That seems entirely appropriate. The BBC is a public service. Employees should avoid wearing anything that can be interpreted as a political statement by the BBC when they are potentially going to be on camera. This honestly seems like common sense to me
Why would anyone want to wear a shirt supporting a known fraudulent movement? Pathetic virtue signallers.
They should all be wearing suits. They get paid enough to do so.
Someone is still doing that stuff?! I thought that was one of those cringe COVID memory hole thing, like people saying they were going to keep masking forever
Pretty standard for the BBC, no? Didn’t it also transpire one the leaders of that particular organisation was a big scam artist who pocketed millions, plus generally there was allegations of misappropriated funds going to shell companies and buying property.
They should wear black lives don’t matter t-shirts as a protest
Quite right too.
Frankly, the BBC ought to be imposing some serious sartorial standards, as we’ve been slipping as a nation in recent years. T-shirts should be outright banned from the workplace; anyone in less than a three-piece suit or equivalent dress should be sent home immediately, without pay, and made to watch news-reels from past decades, when people knew how to dress formally.
Bring back hats too, while we’re at it. Though not in the newsroom, obviously; given that newsrooms are traditionally indoors.
If I can’t wear an Israel is committing war crime on TV as a host I should not be able to wear any political inspired stuff.
Leave politics at home, news is supposed to be news I know the news it self might be political leaning but I don’t want the presenter to also force narratives down my throat