By Dane Giraud…
A BSA ruling reveals what happens when truth collides with fashionable narratives, and why our censors always seem to choose the trend over the fact.
Stacey Woods, the controversial chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA), clearly feels she has some explaining to do. After unilaterally expanding the BSA’s remit to include the internet – conveniently allowing her to target Sean Plunket’s The Platform – she now appears in The Spinoff to reassure us “why standards still matter.”
Her choice of outlet is revealing. This is not a woman seeking debate. She has gone to a publication whose readership will dutifully nod along as she laments declining trust in media, before clicking through to an op-ed by a former editor explaining why Stephen Rainbow wasn’t antisemitic enough to front a Human Rights Commission.
Fortunately, the BSA’s own recent rulings supply the rebuttal she refuses to engage with. It seems the “who decides?” argument remains as durable as ever – an unkillable objection to state censorship.
Read Dane Giraud’s opinion piece in full on his substack, The Many Ways I Let You Down, HERE.
