BBC Staffers Banned From Pride, Black Lives Matter Events
reports i, a British newspaper.The ban is being justified under the requirement that BBC employees be politically neutral. Pride and Black Lives Matter events have been classified as "political protests," David Jordan, the BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards, told senior executives in a Wednesday meeting.Sources told i that executives felt pressured to institute the ban due to the fight over transgender rights; attending Pride might make an employee seem biased on the issue, was their rationale.The new guidance, reportedly issued by the BBC's director-general, Tim Davie (its editor in chief), says that such attending these events would be “virtue signaling” and staff should avoid them "no matter how apparently worthy the cause.
