BBC “rewriting British history to promote a woke agenda”
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From The Telegraph this morning:
‘The BBC is “rewriting British history to promote a woke agenda”, a group of the country’s leading academics has warned, as they cited multiple examples of “bias” in its documentaries.
A report said the BBC was failing in its duty of impartiality by allowing “politically motivated campaigners” to present “tendentious” views of British history as fact.
Lord Roberts, the author and broadcaster, accused the BBC of pursuing a “fatwa” against Sir Winston Churchill. The dossier said documentaries on subjects including slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine distort the truth about Britain’s past through inaccuracy or omitting important facts.
Marie Kawthar Daouda, a lecturer at Oxford University, said the BBC needs to “stop apologising” for Britain’s history. Jeremy Black, the former professor of history at Exeter University, said the BBC was guilty of “systemic failure” through an inability to present a rounded picture of the past.’
The report was compiled by History Reclaimed, whose co-editors are David Abulafia and Robert Tombs - both of whom are professors emeritus at Cambridge University. Supporters of the organisation include Lord Chartres, the former bishop of London; Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at King’s College, London; Niall Ferguson, the broadcaster and fellow of Stanford University, and Lawrence Goldman, emeritus fellow of St Peter’s College’.
Surely can’t be true. Who would’ve thunk it?
‘The BBC is “rewriting British history to promote a woke agenda”, a group of the country’s leading academics has warned, as they cited multiple examples of “bias” in its documentaries.
A report said the BBC was failing in its duty of impartiality by allowing “politically motivated campaigners” to present “tendentious” views of British history as fact.
Lord Roberts, the author and broadcaster, accused the BBC of pursuing a “fatwa” against Sir Winston Churchill. The dossier said documentaries on subjects including slavery, colonialism and the Irish famine distort the truth about Britain’s past through inaccuracy or omitting important facts.
Marie Kawthar Daouda, a lecturer at Oxford University, said the BBC needs to “stop apologising” for Britain’s history. Jeremy Black, the former professor of history at Exeter University, said the BBC was guilty of “systemic failure” through an inability to present a rounded picture of the past.’
The report was compiled by History Reclaimed, whose co-editors are David Abulafia and Robert Tombs - both of whom are professors emeritus at Cambridge University. Supporters of the organisation include Lord Chartres, the former bishop of London; Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at King’s College, London; Niall Ferguson, the broadcaster and fellow of Stanford University, and Lawrence Goldman, emeritus fellow of St Peter’s College’.
Surely can’t be true. Who would’ve thunk it?
Eric Mc said:
Says the Daily Telegraph.
What would you expect from that quarter?
Honestly the opinion columns are barking (and I think similar of many that are in the Guardian before anyone goes off down that rabbit hole).What would you expect from that quarter?
It's just a slightly posher version of the Daily Mail trying to scare people.
"Woke hypocrites should prepare to be cancelled" is another of todays gems.
They're obsessed with it to the point that you can almost open their website and search for "woke" the same way you can "Meghan" on the Daily Mail.
Vanden Saab said:
Yes. Ignoring the messenger what do you think of the report by some of the countries top historians.
I expect in some cases they may have a point but I'd also expect the "countries top historians" that present or are are involved in many of the BBCs programs would disagree.I don't know enough about history to know who's right and who isn't but I'm very sceptical that these "reclaimed" type groups just want things to be told their way whilst I tend to think history is history whether it's good or bad.
I think you lose the argument a little if as a "top historian" you have to resort to accusations of a "fatwa" against one of our greatest Prime Ministers.
I was mentioning on another thread only yesterday about how it’s almost always the same tribal group of posters / members who unfailing rush to the defence of ‘their cause’, no matter what, whilst often providing no evidence, little evidence, or the most tenuous of reasons why any criticism isn’t correct.
And once again, here we are, with many of the same posters doing the same thing once again.
“The criticism of the BBC is bulls
t….just because”.
I’d have thought that such a highly intelligent group of individuals would have been able to quite easily compile a bunch of reasons why this report is incorrect, but it would seem that isn’t possible.
And once again, here we are, with many of the same posters doing the same thing once again.
“The criticism of the BBC is bulls
t….just because”.I’d have thought that such a highly intelligent group of individuals would have been able to quite easily compile a bunch of reasons why this report is incorrect, but it would seem that isn’t possible.
105.4 said:
I was mentioning on another thread only yesterday about how it’s almost always the same tribal group of posters / members who unfailing rush to the defence of ‘their cause’, no matter what, whilst often providing no evidence, little evidence, or the most tenuous of reasons why any criticism isn’t correct.
And once again, here we are, with many of the same posters doing the same thing once again.
“The criticism of the BBC is bullst….just because”.
I’d have thought that such a highly intelligent group of individuals would have been able to quite easily compile a bunch of reasons why this report is incorrect, but it would seem that isn’t possible.
Scarily you could change maybe half a dozen words in your reply and it would apply equally to a separate ‘faction’ on PH (of which perhaps you’re a member, I don’t know).And once again, here we are, with many of the same posters doing the same thing once again.
“The criticism of the BBC is bulls
t….just because”.I’d have thought that such a highly intelligent group of individuals would have been able to quite easily compile a bunch of reasons why this report is incorrect, but it would seem that isn’t possible.
Either way as someone who detests tribalism and binary arguments, it saddens me.
Al Gorithum said:
I get the impression that more and more people are becoming Woke to the BS that the Telegraph and Daily Mail publish. Shame that didn't happen before the Brexit referendum but here we are...
Look out the window and stop reading the guardian, the complete opposite is happening.By the way, here’s a link to the report.
It’s pretty damning: https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/can-we-trust-the-bb...
It’s pretty damning: https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/can-we-trust-the-bb...
colin_p said:
Al Gorithum said:
I get the impression that more and more people are becoming Woke to the BS that the Telegraph and Daily Mail publish. Shame that didn't happen before the Brexit referendum but here we are...
Look out the window and stop reading the guardian, the complete opposite is happening.Here’s an overview of History Reclaimed - https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofempire/2021/...
Diderot said:
By the way, here’s a link to the report.
It’s pretty damning: https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/can-we-trust-the-bb...
So a bunch of randoms with an axe to grind.It’s pretty damning: https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/can-we-trust-the-bb...
"Tombs is the editor of History Reclaimed,[22] a website created by a "group of anti-woke scholars" that opposes what they claim to be censorship of historical texts"
Basically a bunch of people with no evidence and an agenda.hoping to get enough people who don't know any better and are triggered by "Woke".
The irony is, "historyreclaimed" is trying to do exactly what they accuse others of, rewriting history.
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