• by Ray Schultz , Yesterday

The BBC has taken a stand against a certain kind of attire in the newsroom. Reporters can no longer wear Black Lives Matter T-shirts at work. 

The reason is that those who cover the issue to be “campaigning” in that manner.  

This is not a sartorial issue, but a political one. 

“You cannot have any assumption about where people are politically,” says Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, according to The Guardian. “You leave it at the door, and your religion is journalism in the BBC.”

That said, newsrooms might do well to require button-down shirts, long pants and maybe even ties for men, and similar business casual attire for women. But that is not the issue here. 

Davis jokes that reporters should not even bring a Kamala Harris mug into the newsroom.