Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:49
BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of 'right wing backlash'
Or they would not air it in places where Tories watch BBC More, which is their television sets, but instead making the episode available on Iplayer where a more younger audience, maybe a more libertarian audience, watches the show. From a business standpoint, this makes sense. They are preemptively ensuring that there is no outrage
Continue to make decisions that, oh, I don't want to offend this particular group and that backlash and I don't want to offend this particular group and their backlash and so on, to the point where we're going to have pablum offered from any sort of quote unquote news source. I mean, then it's not even news. What is that? A few sort of cliches and quotes come to mind. The first is from an autistic author, and I love that she said this
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
But there is like a line, a direct channel between the government, between the journalists and between the people, if that makes sense. Right. So it's like I wouldn't call them left right or central right, because in India we have a version of this called ANI or ANI. And no matter what is happening in the country, ANI is going to do its own boring thing, right? When it comes to informing people about stuff, back in the day it used to be durharshan
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
I mean, it's sort of partly an emotional thing, maybe for me, maybe not. I don't know. It depends on the time, the topic, whatever. Anyway, it's fascinating when you think about the nuances of language are being lost or having to change the way things are worded in order for things to be understood. Like, I remember reading somebody was really irritated about how in the US. The CDC had to change the wording of what a vaccine was
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 3:37
And I'm also being a bit of a pedant here when I say that somewhere in 2005 actually is where this trend begins, where vocabulary is quickly, quickly shifting without any inputs from the majority, actually. So majority being most people in the world. Right? Because most people in the world aren't chilling on social media and wasting time. Most people are working. Right. So it's definitely concerning. Yes. Enjoy the cucumber. Cumberbatch. Cumberband, cumbersome
Okay. I don't know if this is the link that you meant, but I'm really glad you suggested that I check out Graham Norton and Cumberbatch because this was absolutely delightful. It made me want to find out if I could watch Graham Norton here, but I can't. It's not available. Probably clips on YouTube are available, and I just enjoyed the two of them back and forth. Thank you very much
Conservatives always leaning towards Fox and some more extreme things and then Liberals going the opposite way and CNN and so on and so forth. So interestingly enough of the BBC, which I've always personally read the BBC for news because I like that they weren't based in America and they provide regularly neutral content. The fact that they were concerned about backlash from the Conservative side of the UK government, which I know to be the Tories yeah, it's worrying because these decisions are how censorship become a thing
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:59
I live in India. We have a conservative government and we actually don't have any liberal political parties. We do have leftist parties but most leftist policies are also conservative. We don't really have liberal for the political representatives in India maximum you'll have one or two statements here and there but that's it. Nobody fighting for liberal policies, so to speak
And you talked about how, in this case, this is the BBC case, there's such a small group that's complaining and yet it's affecting everyone. This is something that I really can relate to because the state of American government, american politics, is horrendous, to say the least. But what you see on TV and what you're seeing in the media is not representative of the whole