BBC ‘flexible with facts’ on LGBT issues

A journalist has slammed the BBC over an ‘LGBT election guide’ which played “fast and loose with the facts”.

Caroline Ffiske, a former political adviser writing for The Conservative Woman, accused the broadcaster of being “highly misleading and irresponsible”.

The feature on the BBC’s site was entitled: ‘What to look out for on LGBT issues’.

Lacking evidence

The video makes disputed claims about rises in hate crime without producing any evidence.

It also warns viewers to be wary of people using the phrase “parents right to choose” claiming it may indicate they don’t endorse LGBT education.

Caroline Ffiske poured scorn on the BBC’s claim to be unbiased and asked why the broadcaster failed to mention the concerns many voters have with teaching children about gender identity.

‘Cavalier’

“How can the BBC treat issues of such enormous importance to so many people, issues that impact the safety, dignity, privacy of women and girls, in such a cavalier, trivialising, and in parts, plain-out misleading, fashion?

“How can we trust our national broadcaster if it plays so fast and loose with the facts on such important issues”.

Veteran broadcaster John Humphrys recently hit out at the BBC’s one-sided approach to transgender issues.

“How can we trust our national broadcaster if it plays so fast and loose with the facts on such important issues”.

Liberal bias

Speaking to The Times and The Sunday Times, the former presenter of the Today programme said the corporation was guilty of ‘institutional liberal bias’.

He commented that “their mindset is such that we must kind of accept what the prevailing view is”, but that their idea of the prevailing view is often wide of the mark.