US EditionBBC Upholds Complaints Against Croxall Over Correction of 'Pregnant People'
BBC's Executive Complaints Unit found Croxall breached impartiality standards by showing exasperation after altering 'pregnant people' to 'women' on air.
- BBC's Executive Complaints Unit ruled Martine Croxall fell short of impartiality after she altered 'pregnant people' to 'women' on air earlier this year.
- The ECU said Croxall's facial expression was interpreted as showing 'disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation' and breached BBC impartiality by expressing a personal view on a controversial matter.
- Croxall was quoting Dr Malcolm Mistry from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine about heatwave risks when the teleprompter wording prompted her to say 'women', and BBC management told the ECU she was reacting to scripting that 'somewhat clumsily incorporated phrases'.
- The BBC reported 20 impartiality complaints were upheld and the finding was discussed with BBC News managers and Martine Croxall.
- Amid board-level debate, the episode feeds into tensions after a dossier by Michael Prescott alleged the BBC was 'captured by a small group' promoting a pro-trans agenda and following the UK Supreme Court ruling in April on the legal definition of a woman.
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BBC uses ‘neutrality’ excuse to rebuke newscaster who objected to gender ideology
From LifeSiteNews By Jonathon Van Maren Rebuking a female presenter for correcting an ideological script that says men can get pregnant isn’t ‘neutrality,’ by any stretch. Imagine a society in which the state broadcaster demanded that the female hosts eliminate the word “women” in favor of “people” and rebuked them if their facial expressions betrayed any hit of protest on air. Welcome to the United Kingdom in 2025. According to the BBC: “Martin…
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Utopia - you are standing in it!BBC Finds Presenter in Violation of Network Standards in Correcting “Pregnant People” Reference on Air
There is a controversy at the BBC over a correction made by presenter Martine Croxall on air when she changed a reference to “pregnant people” to “women.” The network later received 20 complaints and agreed that Croxall had violated network policies. (For full disclosure, I previously worked as the legal analyst for BBC). In the segment, Croxall began by stating, “London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has released research, which says t…
Newsreader Rapped for Changing ‘Pregnant People’ to ‘Women’
A BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed the script from “pregnant people” to “pregnant women” has been rebuked by the corporation for expressing what it termed “a personal view on a controversial matter.” The BBC upheld the complaints against newsreader Martine Croxall on Thursday, although she has not been fired by the publicly-funded broadcaster, which is currently under scrutiny for its alleged biases following a leaked internal rep…
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