Thread by @truth_eater

Anyone globally who listens to the BBC needs to hear this statement from @KensingtonRoyal and know this is the tip of the iceberg. While many people inside the BBC, like the late Liz MacKean, have worked hard to report with honesty and integrity, the organization is rotten.

https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1395484854272335875

Key BBC execs never took any responsibility for being complicit in pedophilia scandals spanning decades (a very good piece on it by Maureen Orth @VanityFair here): vanityfair.com/news/2013/02/b…

A years-long inquiry into BBC by Dame Janet Smith found that if an organization could be legally charged with complicity of child abuse (which the judge said it could not) then the BBC would be guilty of it. theguardian.com/media/2016/feb…
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…

This past year, I decided to walk away from a BBC film that I had worked on for 4 years as a producer, because I was being pressured to sign NDAs, violate journalistic principles and mislead survivors of child abuse who they wanted to be on film. It was 100% unconscionable.

Again, many @BBC journalists have tried to do the right thing and been railroaded. The BBC and their team will say things to you that you can scarcely believe. They will call you names, demoralize you if you do not take orders like a robot. I was lucky; I could walk away.

Others can't without losing their livelihoods. And, just as Dame Smith said in her shocking report on the BBC (which you can read in full here: bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/dame_…) these problems persist to the present day. Not just in England, but across the British isles.

So, when you read a BBC story today -- ask yourself, does this story sound like journalism, or something with a bit of an agenda that may seek to whitewash or mislead? One such recent example I found particularly disturbing, here: bbc.com/news/world-eur… We can do better.