BBC Tending

Here's a little social media activity from this very afternoon, featuring the aforementioned Mike Wendling of BBC Trending:

• BBC Trending: Last week journalist Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) from Vox News posted a video about the anti-gay and racist abuse he was receiving from rival video-maker Steven Crowder on YouTube. Now YouTube says anti-gay slurs do not break its rules.
• DB: I see Mike Wendling & his BBC Trending team of SJWs are joining the left-wing media's attempt to shut down @scrowder's very popular YouTube channel. (Note the @BBCTrending tweet doesn't include [Steven] Crowder's twitter handle.)
• Iconoclast: For info: Maza's bio: "I write Strikethrough for @voxdotcom. Marxist pig. Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist." Nice huh? Vox is a far left fake news outfit, so support from BBC Trending & Alt-left hunter Mike Wendling not altogether surprising I guess.
• Mike Wendling, BBC: Confused. Did you read the story? Is there factual inaccuracy? (Also, why so angry?) 

It all relates to this BBC News website article: 

For the purposes of this blog, the question is more 'Is it biased?' 

Well, the choice of subject is 'very BBC' (identity politics, bad social media, right-wingers 'in the wrong'), but the story is the story. And the BBC could be reporting it fairly. 

Look though at the opening paragraph:

YouTube is one of many companies that has given its logo a rainbow-themed makeover to show support for LGBT rights - but, underneath the colourful veneer, a row has erupted over how the video-sharing site enforces its own hate-speech policies.

And then look at the closing paragraph:

With LGBT Pride Month just kicking off, it will be interesting to see how many other organisations will adopt rainbows across their brands, without necessarily backing the queer communities they are desperately marketing themselves to.

Though the first paragraph comes from the by-line-free main part of the report, the last comes from the closing 'Analysis' by the BBC's LGBT correspondent (oh yes, that really is his job title) Ben Hunte, and the narrative arc of the article is as perfect as a rainbow.

As DB and Iconoclast say, YouTube is surely being pressured by the BBC here to follow their favoured agenda here, don't you think?

That whole closing 'Analysis' from LGBT BBC Ben runs as follows:

Many professional LGBT video-makers will be familiar with uploading material online and instantly being tormented by certain audiences, solely because of their sexuality.  

YouTube's take on this will disappoint the LGBT community.  

It will surprise them that hurtful things considered hate speech and punishable by law in real life can simply be labelled "debate" online, and not require any repercussions.  

With LGBT Pride Month just kicking off, it will be interesting to see how many other organisations will adopt rainbows across their brands, without necessarily backing the queer communities they are desperately marketing themselves to.

You might defend Ben here with 'The Katya Adler Defence'. Just as Katya is tasked with reporting what the EU says, so Ben is surely only reporting what the LGBT community are saying? Unfortunately, he lets himself (and the BBC down) with that word "desperately" in the final paragraph. It betrays his feelings.

As Mike Wendling might say, 'Also why so angry, Ben?'