and yet they've employed Jeremy Clarkson, Carol Thatcher, Michael Burke, Patrick Moore (latter two mentioned just due to sexist comments made in past)...
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 19 October 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Patrick Moore is very right-wing on immigration too, unfortunately.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
... and Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo and Nick Robinson and Quentin Letts ad nauseum
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael Buerk is a Conservative?
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Only when it comes to the BBC employing women, I think... women who get jobs he wants, that is
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sexist, conservative, racist - all the same
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Regardless of how many sexist conservative racist rightwingers are employed there, the very existence of the BBC as a huge part of the media landscape is a slap in the face to Tory free market ideals, so obviously they want to pare it back. I don't think it's all about Murdoch.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
In my own experience, sexism is not limited to conservative men!
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL, far from it!
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Wondering how many Tories are anti-Beeb (lol anti-Auntie, don't mind me) cz free market ideals, nanny state trying to make us pay for socialised tv, drag out ancient acronym about the commies etc, and how many are in favour of preserving it as a Great British institution from the days when Great Britain etc etc, y'know, a relatively staid old thing that doesn't put quite as many flashing neon colours and topless ladies on as the other channels
I mean, the other group does exist, right? Or is this the sector of small-c conservatives who wouldn't admit to being such and vote Lib Dem? (PS this is not really intended derogatively as it describes much of my family and quite possibly me)
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Hardly any of the latter and none who matter <--------- satirical poetry
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
and even they would be appeased by one radio station playing Test Match Special, the shipping forecast and The Archers
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the opposition from Murdoch, the Mail etc is predicated purely on the BBC grabbing a fairly hefty slice of online eyeballs and TV ratings that might otherwise be going to their properties - however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising.. because then the advertisers would spread their (finite amount of) money over to the BBC innit
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising..
also many BBC supporters greatest fear surely
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 19 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't believe i said "carries" instead of using the subjunctive. GAH
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Fun fact: the BBC was nationalised under a Tory government.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, THAT'll stop their commie styles in their TRACKS! oh wait (a long time)
― Mark G, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Some guy on the weather forecast talking about a lull in the rain definitely used the phrase "a bit of rest-bite" today. Beginning of the end if you ask me.
― The bugger in the short sleeves (NickB), Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Given the accuracy of the Met Office, that forecast might prove to be something of a damp squid.
― Neil S, Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
now we have a weatherman wearing jeans. It's a speedy apocalypse.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't be such a milk toast.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
DAMMING REPORTwas behind the newsreader on the lead item a few weeks back. ten o'clock news.
― rap band (schlump), Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I read something about Prime Gordon Brown on their website a few minutes ago.
― ailsa, Sunday, 22 November 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8273467.stm
The person in the video is not Clarie Middleton. I don't know who it is! (Not to mention that the new chief executive's name is "Clarie", not "Claire"...)
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 22 November 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
goddamn liberal shilly-shalliers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/16/bbc-africa-have-your-say
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Thursday, 17 December 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I suggest all gays are put on a remote island somewhere and left for a generation - after which, theoretically there should be none left!
― no mate bruce springsteen is the american jimmy barnes (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 17 December 2009 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
(is it legit to do a kind of quasi-homophobic zing here? along the lines of DIDN'T THEY TRY THAT WITH AUSTRALIA? OH!)
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Thursday, 17 December 2009 11:55 (fourteen years ago) link
More of an Australophobic zinger there
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
patosceptic
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Thursday, 17 December 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Ban all Ugandan discussions, that'll solve the problem.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Heard they were making a film about this - Last Queen Of Scotland.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually that's not funny.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
you've just qualified for your own BBC3 series tho
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Too subtle
― Challop You Face (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
it was delivered by seinfeld in a guest role
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it was just a horrible joke to make, apologies.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm am literally sitting here typing in protest & outrage. i have half a mind to make a cup of tea and drink it.
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ER4DVRPPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Frankie Boyle will probably steal it anyway
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
steve punt it's ironic because his name rhymes with sleeve
― stop grieving, it's only a chicken (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"four original episodes" plus several hours of shouting
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
and that's just people who've been bought it
― Challop You Face (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Several hours of sitting in a corner, arms round your knees, rocking back and forth, muttering, "Why why? Why me?"
― Sonny Uplands (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonder how much they like them in Uganda?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Now here's a funny songTo help you all alongIt's really a bit cornyBut at least it makes me money
I play this 'ere guitarOn Radio 4 ha ha ha!The Now Show is just cackit's a schoolboy shouting match
dum d-d-dum dum... dum dum! ba-dum pish!
― HUH? not appropriate (snoball), Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
not even gonna read it, just LOL repeatedly
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
is this about the axing of last of the summer wine?
― Chaki doesn't have beef with unicorn (stevie), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
go to www.bbc.co.uk and giggle like a giggly one
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Stephen Nolan sent *two* sexually explicit images to *several* work colleagues, not only a "long-term friend and peer outside of work" as he claimed on his radio show on Friday. Today’s Irish News. pic.twitter.com/zs1JKvavEJ— Rodney Edwards (@rodneyedwards) August 19, 2023
looks like Nolan's on air confession/apology was somewhat economical with the truth
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 19 August 2023 08:11 (eight months ago) link
I remember this cowardly intellectual minnow repeatedly asking Corbyn to condemn the IRA - what a fucking pumper
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 19 August 2023 08:26 (eight months ago) link
Good to see:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-world-service-announces-emergency-radio-service-for-gaza
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 11:59 (six months ago) link
i wonder if they'll get the endless "those Chinese are it again" programming featured on the regular World Service?
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:04 (six months ago) link
Lol I am not a radio listener but...I hope not
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:30 (six months ago) link
They're an industrious ppl tbf
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 November 2023 17:56 (six months ago) link
one tiny positive about life and death in Gaza: no Malcolm Gladwell NPR programs *analyzing* the causes of political polarisation if you tune into the Arabic wing of BBC WS
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:15 (six months ago) link
So many racists at this organisation like Dan Johnson who like to end their pathetic articles with made-up anecdotes from racists.
So many others refuse to talk about immigration - they fear the possible reaction if they share their view. Time and again I heard "not on camera" and "I can't talk about that".
A local driving instructor who offers lessons in different languages refuses to speak, saying "my tyres would be let down".
Immigration is contentious and, to many in Swindon, the Rwanda plan is controversial. Many local businesses and organisations here were also reluctant to engage. Some people haven't even heard of the plan, let alone formed strong opinions on it.
Vince is one who is happy to talk though.
He points at the bunting he strung across the street for the King's Coronation. He's glad he didn't take it down because he says the council won't put up any Christmas lights this year. He recalls an immigrant who once came in to request he remove the union flags hanging outside the shop.
"He said he found my flags offensive, but I said 'sorry, you'll have to get used to it'."
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― nashwan, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 15:42 (four months ago) link
we must bend over backwards to accommodate the beliefs of those who have been lied to their whole lives, no matter how harmful, rather than question the validity of those beliefs.
― organ doner (ledge), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 16:09 (four months ago) link