The BBC has criticized analysis accusing the UK broadcaster of peddling viewers a “steady diet of woke bias,” together with information about slavery and gender variety storylines in drama.
The BBC accused the Campaign for Common Sense, a gaggle that advocates for freedom of expression, of “cherry-picking” examples of so-called “woke” points from hundreds of hours of output.
The Campaign for Common Sense has but to publish its analysis, however the group seems to have collated examples of content material that has upset comparatively small numbers of viewers. The BBC stated it didn’t “constitute analysis.”
Findings have been shared with The Daily Telegraph, which reported that the Campaign for Common Sense surveyed BBC content material in an try to reveal bias over points together with race and gender.
The group stated BBC News revealed 55 separate tales about slavery, together with individuals reflecting on their historic hyperlinks to the slave commerce.
The Campaign for Common Sense identified how dramas had embraced points round race, describing how an episode of Waterloo Road featured college students revolting over their faculty’s slavery hyperlinks.
The analysis added that gender points have been additionally explored in BBC dramas. This included a June episode of Casualty by which non-binary character Sah Brockner (Arin Smethurst) mentioned their surgical procedure.
As Deadline reported, the Casualty storyline acquired 142 complaints from disgruntled viewers members.
More just lately, Doctor Who acquired 144 complaints from individuals who felt the inclusion of Yasmin Finney‘s transgender character Rose was “inappropriate.”
The Campaign for Common Sense stated: “This research reveals that, rather than upholding those high standards of impartiality, parts of the BBC continue to peddle a steady diet of woke bias both through the plotlines of popular dramas but also in some of its news coverage.”
A BBC spokesperson stated: “Cherry-picking a handful of examples or highlighting real errors in hundreds of hours of output doesn’t represent evaluation and isn’t a real illustration of BBC content material. We are proud that our output seeks to signify all audiences and a spread of tales and views.
“Across the entirety of our services there will, of course, be occasions when people disagree with or want to challenge what they have watched or heard and we have well publicised routes for them to do that.”
The Campaign for Common Sense was based by Mark Lehain who works as a particular adviser to the Department for Education.