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  • Those BBC values in full: paedo = gay

    Another in my occasional series about the BBC (which may well have been corrected by the time you read this):

    Miranda Grell news story

    Now, innocent until you’re proven guilty on all that: I’m not commenting on the case itself. But since when does accusing someone of paedophilia count as a “gay slur”? If a straight man was accused of paedophilia, would the BBC call it a “hetero slur”?

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    Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 09:34
  • Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 10:31 | #1

    Changed at 11.27 to “Councillor accused over ’slurs’”

    …Not that they want to admit it, though: “Last Updated: Thursday, 13 September 2007, 03:02 GMT 04:02 UK”

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