They censored her speech for being critical of the government
I’m sure suella braverman will send a representative rushing down to complain about this breach of free speech…
Was she talking about UK or Irish government?
Edit: all of them. I think that’s fair enough.
Honestly the BBC are such snowflakes if they think people can’t bear to hear criticism of this or that by actors. We can take it, honestly. The whole population has an opinion on government one way or another, it’s nothing new.
Its sad and scary the control the tories have laid out over the UK now. They messed with the BBC and using it as some bloody propaganda tool now. Its a total corupt power grab, a bunch of totalitarian wannabes. Still I’m sure we will happily vote them back in for more of the same next election!
Media arm of the tory party doesn’t air tory-critical views shocker.
Jesus Christ this country is fucked. Seems like something Russia or China would do!
To describe the edit, Siobhán McSweeney was accepting a BAFTA award for her work on Derry Girls (she played Sister Michael). She started off with a light-hearted joke about Cillian Murphy before thanking her family.
Then she moved on to thanking the people of Derry with the following:
>Thank you for taking me into your hearts and your living rooms! I am daily impressed with how ye encompasse the spirit of resilience and compromise despite the indignities, ignorance and stupidity of your so-called leaders in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster [break for applause] … in the words of my beloved Sister Michael (doing a Sister Michael impression): it’s time they started to wise-up. Thank you so much!
Here’s what the BBC-edited version looks like for when she got on to thanking the people of Derry:
>Thank you for taking me into your hearts and your living rooms! ~~I am daily impressed with how ye encompasse the spirit of resilience and compromise despite the indignities, ignorance and stupidity of your so-called leader in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster~~ [break for applause] ~~… in the words of my beloved Sister Michael (doing a Sister Michael impression): it’s time they started to wise-up~~. Thank you so much!
In case it’s hard to make out with the lines, the edited version reads as the following:
>Thank you for taking me into your hearts and your living rooms! [break for applause] Thank you so much!
Both clips start and end in the same place but the unedited one is 41 seconds-long while the BBC version runs for only 23 seconds
Waiting for the. “free speech absolutists” to go in on the BBC. Wait…
Just so I’m clear, we all pro free speech now?
I swear they did this the other day aswell, Greg Davis in the morning about the Louis capaldi music video and how lots of people cry watching it, he said “I won’t cry cause I’m a man”. I went back to sounds to relisten to it and it changed to “im a blubberer”
I put a complaint in anyway, would not normally care but it’s mental health week and stupid comments like that don’t help.
Well that’s fucking dumb – if they’re so politically neutral they should leave it untouched, people are entitled to their personal opinion and an acceptance speech is their moment.
Yup. Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the government’s immigration policy and I don’t think the BBC mentioned it.
The next day one of the top stories was about him being caught speeding.
Theyre propaganda for the tories now.
When we now effectively have a state run propaganda service, it’s no longer surprising.
I’m presuming it won’t be long before they implement a deep fake, praising fascism in similar situations.
Of course they did, it’s turning more and more like Russia every day
Dunno why British people act surprised about this behaviour from the higher ups
What’s really sad is that only now people are saying the government is corrupt.
The article linked to in the OP points out that many speeches were cut for length
The ceremony lasted three hours but the broadcast version was only two hours
The Russian oligarch mouthpiece ‘*Independent’* are being cute with their headline
They know it’ll provoke the sort of reactions about BBC bias seen in this thread
They’re no different to the *Mail*, in that respect, and their audience no less credulous or quick to anger
Quite right too.
Not because the BBC should censor political speech, but because I read the news, I read opinion pieces by people deep enough in the weeds to really know what’s going on.
There’s nothing a half-rate TV presenter can tell me that I don’t already know. Every random celebrity banging on like a 16 year-old A-Level politics student “well acksherlly” is the most tedious trend there currently is.
BBC reporting domestic news it’s like other different channel than when BBC reporting world news.
The BBC is impartial, until the point where anybody criticises the Tories, defends trans people and refugees, or protests against biased BBC reporting outside BBC offices for days on end, because God forbid an allegedly impartial news organisation doesn’t have incredibly dangerous and corrupt leaders whose personal political views are literally ruining lives on a daily basis.
They’re only impartial when it benefits them, and lie constantly to achieve the Tories’ backwards and dangerous policy decisions. It’s honestly disgusting
Love watching the Streisand effect playing out live. If they’d kept it in hardly anyone would be talking it about it. Nice on for dropping a bollock their BBC, shock to noone!
Honest question without an agenda. Did they do this to other speeches or just the political ones? If its only this one, that’s despicable
Unsurprising.
BBC gags anything these days that isn’t fully pro Tory.
We live in awful times, thanks to years of Conservative rule.
God, this really is a scandal. The BBC has not stopepd being biased just because Richards Sharp was forced out. But they’ve done this before. Cutting out laughter at Boris Johnson. Changing the footage so people can’t see him putting the laurel the wrong way round. The BBC continues to desperately pander to the Tories, foolishly thinking that they will reward them.
This happens in commie China, we’re up in arms and glad that we live in a “free” country. The same shit happens here, radio silence..
God this country is a joke
There’s nothing I could give less of a shit about than bunch of third rate luvvies at some second-rate award night, but there’s a time and place to start venting your spleen at something.
Well… They are funded by said “stupid government” sooooooo….
I would be inclined to believe that cutting their comment off is a response, to the Ricky Gervais Golden Globes rant.
We are not interested in your politics, just collect your award and fuck off. Seemed to go over very well with the public.
I love my film and TV so I do end up watching these awards and BAFTA have somehow gone beyond many others and truely turned the entire broadcast into a terrible experience. The BBC go on about time restraints being the reason for cutting the speech short yet with both the film and tv awards this year, they thought it was a good idea to go backstage for interviews with the winners that take up a good portion of the broadcast and then shitty musical performances.
So while they are also clearly being biased to edit her speech, they are just really badly produced broadcasts and its a shame. I dont want to see Kate Winslet backstage talking to Amelia Dimoldenberg after she just got her moment onstage. I want to see the speeches from all the other categories who put in the hard work.
Did the BBC decide to specifically cut that speech for broadcast because of it’s contents? Or did the BBC broadcast a two hour show produced by a BAFTA and Spun Gold in which that speech had been cut (quite possibly simply for time reasons along with many other speeches)?
The BBC was once the world’s leading example of fine, unbiased reporting. Now it’s nothing but the UK’s version of America’s Fox News.
The Tories have won with the BBC. I’ve reached the point where I wouldn’t be sad to see it go.
The bbc is supposed to remain impartial, they have to do this. They can’t air anti government sentiment. They would do the same if it was Labour in government.
Good because the government has nothing to do with, nor is relevant to the .B.A.F.T.A.. Celebrities need to shut up about things that they have no: real interest, understanding, or experience of. (Ususually to get profle raising attention). They perform for us thats it.
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They censored her speech for being critical of the government
I’m sure suella braverman will send a representative rushing down to complain about this breach of free speech…
Was she talking about UK or Irish government?
Edit: all of them. I think that’s fair enough.
Honestly the BBC are such snowflakes if they think people can’t bear to hear criticism of this or that by actors. We can take it, honestly. The whole population has an opinion on government one way or another, it’s nothing new.
Its sad and scary the control the tories have laid out over the UK now. They messed with the BBC and using it as some bloody propaganda tool now. Its a total corupt power grab, a bunch of totalitarian wannabes. Still I’m sure we will happily vote them back in for more of the same next election!
Media arm of the tory party doesn’t air tory-critical views shocker.
Jesus Christ this country is fucked. Seems like something Russia or China would do!
[Here’s a Tweet showing an unedited verison-edited version side-by-side.](https://twitter.com/OhHeyJacob/status/1657951174761357314?s=20)
To describe the edit, Siobhán McSweeney was accepting a BAFTA award for her work on Derry Girls (she played Sister Michael). She started off with a light-hearted joke about Cillian Murphy before thanking her family.
Then she moved on to thanking the people of Derry with the following:
>Thank you for taking me into your hearts and your living rooms! I am daily impressed with how ye encompasse the spirit of resilience and compromise despite the indignities, ignorance and stupidity of your so-called leaders in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster [break for applause] … in the words of my beloved Sister Michael (doing a Sister Michael impression): it’s time they started to wise-up. Thank you so much!
Here’s what the BBC-edited version looks like for when she got on to thanking the people of Derry:
>Thank you for taking me into your hearts and your living rooms! ~~I am daily impressed with how ye encompasse the spirit of resilience and compromise despite the indignities, ignorance and stupidity of your so-called leader in Dublin, Stormont and Westminster~~ [break for applause] ~~… in the words of my beloved Sister Michael (doing a Sister Michael impression): it’s time they started to wise-up~~. Thank you so much!
In case it’s hard to make out with the lines, the edited version reads as the following:
>Thank you for taking me into your hearts and your living rooms! [break for applause] Thank you so much!
Both clips start and end in the same place but the unedited one is 41 seconds-long while the BBC version runs for only 23 seconds
Waiting for the. “free speech absolutists” to go in on the BBC. Wait…
Just so I’m clear, we all pro free speech now?
I swear they did this the other day aswell, Greg Davis in the morning about the Louis capaldi music video and how lots of people cry watching it, he said “I won’t cry cause I’m a man”. I went back to sounds to relisten to it and it changed to “im a blubberer”
I put a complaint in anyway, would not normally care but it’s mental health week and stupid comments like that don’t help.
Well that’s fucking dumb – if they’re so politically neutral they should leave it untouched, people are entitled to their personal opinion and an acceptance speech is their moment.
Yup. Archbishop of Canterbury criticised the government’s immigration policy and I don’t think the BBC mentioned it.
The next day one of the top stories was about him being caught speeding.
Theyre propaganda for the tories now.
When we now effectively have a state run propaganda service, it’s no longer surprising.
I’m presuming it won’t be long before they implement a deep fake, praising fascism in similar situations.
Of course they did, it’s turning more and more like Russia every day
Dunno why British people act surprised about this behaviour from the higher ups
What’s really sad is that only now people are saying the government is corrupt.
The article linked to in the OP points out that many speeches were cut for length
The ceremony lasted three hours but the broadcast version was only two hours
The Russian oligarch mouthpiece ‘*Independent’* are being cute with their headline
They know it’ll provoke the sort of reactions about BBC bias seen in this thread
They’re no different to the *Mail*, in that respect, and their audience no less credulous or quick to anger
Quite right too.
Not because the BBC should censor political speech, but because I read the news, I read opinion pieces by people deep enough in the weeds to really know what’s going on.
There’s nothing a half-rate TV presenter can tell me that I don’t already know. Every random celebrity banging on like a 16 year-old A-Level politics student “well acksherlly” is the most tedious trend there currently is.
BBC reporting domestic news it’s like other different channel than when BBC reporting world news.
The BBC is impartial, until the point where anybody criticises the Tories, defends trans people and refugees, or protests against biased BBC reporting outside BBC offices for days on end, because God forbid an allegedly impartial news organisation doesn’t have incredibly dangerous and corrupt leaders whose personal political views are literally ruining lives on a daily basis.
They’re only impartial when it benefits them, and lie constantly to achieve the Tories’ backwards and dangerous policy decisions. It’s honestly disgusting
Love watching the Streisand effect playing out live. If they’d kept it in hardly anyone would be talking it about it. Nice on for dropping a bollock their BBC, shock to noone!
Honest question without an agenda. Did they do this to other speeches or just the political ones? If its only this one, that’s despicable
Unsurprising.
BBC gags anything these days that isn’t fully pro Tory.
We live in awful times, thanks to years of Conservative rule.
God, this really is a scandal. The BBC has not stopepd being biased just because Richards Sharp was forced out. But they’ve done this before. Cutting out laughter at Boris Johnson. Changing the footage so people can’t see him putting the laurel the wrong way round. The BBC continues to desperately pander to the Tories, foolishly thinking that they will reward them.
This isn’t the first time this has happened and it wont be the last. When *”The Act of Killing”* (also known as *”Jagal”* or ‘Butcher’ in Indonesian) won a BAFTA for best documentary recounting the mass ethnic and politically motivated murder of around 1,000,000 people who were Communist party members, sympathisers, ethnic chinese and others. The director accepted his award, and highlighted the fact that these mass killings had the enthusiastic support of the USA and the UK and our intelligence agencies actively helped. [You can read the transcript here.](https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/transcripts/ee-british-academy-film-awards-in-2014-winners-acceptance-speech) However the speech shown on BAFTA’s youtube page cuts that part out. [As you can see here, they’re absolute cowards.](https://filmmakermagazine.com/84443-the-act-of-killing-wins-documentary-bafta-director-oppenheimers-speech-edited-online/)
This happens in commie China, we’re up in arms and glad that we live in a “free” country. The same shit happens here, radio silence..
God this country is a joke
There’s nothing I could give less of a shit about than bunch of third rate luvvies at some second-rate award night, but there’s a time and place to start venting your spleen at something.
Well… They are funded by said “stupid government” sooooooo….
I would be inclined to believe that cutting their comment off is a response, to the Ricky Gervais Golden Globes rant.
We are not interested in your politics, just collect your award and fuck off. Seemed to go over very well with the public.
I love my film and TV so I do end up watching these awards and BAFTA have somehow gone beyond many others and truely turned the entire broadcast into a terrible experience. The BBC go on about time restraints being the reason for cutting the speech short yet with both the film and tv awards this year, they thought it was a good idea to go backstage for interviews with the winners that take up a good portion of the broadcast and then shitty musical performances.
So while they are also clearly being biased to edit her speech, they are just really badly produced broadcasts and its a shame. I dont want to see Kate Winslet backstage talking to Amelia Dimoldenberg after she just got her moment onstage. I want to see the speeches from all the other categories who put in the hard work.
If you look at the end credits of the show on iPlayer it says copyright BAFTA. https://www.bafta.org/media-centre/press-releases/spun-gold-tv-appointed-co-producer-of-bafta-awards says the TV coverage was produced by BAFTA and Spun Gold.
Did the BBC decide to specifically cut that speech for broadcast because of it’s contents? Or did the BBC broadcast a two hour show produced by a BAFTA and Spun Gold in which that speech had been cut (quite possibly simply for time reasons along with many other speeches)?
The BBC was once the world’s leading example of fine, unbiased reporting. Now it’s nothing but the UK’s version of America’s Fox News.
The Tories have won with the BBC. I’ve reached the point where I wouldn’t be sad to see it go.
The bbc is supposed to remain impartial, they have to do this. They can’t air anti government sentiment. They would do the same if it was Labour in government.
Good because the government has nothing to do with, nor is relevant to the .B.A.F.T.A.. Celebrities need to shut up about things that they have no: real interest, understanding, or experience of. (Ususually to get profle raising attention). They perform for us thats it.