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BBC edits out pride pins on University Challenge in ‘Orwellian’ move (www.leicester.news)

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Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

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[-] M137@lemmy.today 4 points 8 hours ago

You seem to have thought "ah, British thing, means it's BBC".

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Well I go appreciate panel does like this was the news, qi and would I lie to you. Comedy is not entirely dead in the beeb.

But I wasn't aware that channel 4 wasn't part of the main media mogul, so I stand corrected.

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