EXC: Robbie Gibb, Theresa May's ex-director of comms, is joining the BBC Board. A critic of BBC bias. Will be their England representative.He tells me: “The Corporation has a big job to reform and make sure it once again becomes the gold standard for broadcasting impartiality"— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) April 29, 2021
― stet, Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
He seems nice
― Call of Scampi: Slack Nephrops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link
they’re not sending their best really are they
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
Before that he had a 25-year career with the Beeb, including as editor of Daily Politics and head of BBC Westminster.
― nashwan, Thursday, 29 April 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
It's been a privilege to work for the BBC. I will always be a supporter because of its values and commitment to impartiality.— Robbie Gibb (@RobbieGibb) July 6, 2017
― koogs, Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:51 (three years ago) link
seems to suggest it all went to hell in the ~4 years he wasnt there.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 April 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
The @BBCNews needs to make a statement was their building in Gaza housing Hamas militants firing rockets a simple yes they did or no the didn’t will suffice as that’s why it was targeted according to Israeli military.— Ian Hodson (@IanBFAWU) May 15, 2021
― Free Palestine (Left), Saturday, 15 May 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
My friend who is a reporter for Al Jazeera (and also ex-BBC) says that AJ’s Gaza bureau was also bombed to fuck.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Saturday, 15 May 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
They were in the same building.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 15 May 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
Critical support for Bashir as a royal family wrecker
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 May 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
Haha.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 21 May 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
as i've said elsewhere the bashir part of the story is the least interesting really. the diana connection is what makes the story front-page news but it's the sort of grimy bullshit that reporters have pulled forever and will keep pulling. the real story here - and actually kind of shocking to me, even though i should probably know better - is 1) the deliberate sabotaging of whistleblowers' careers and simultaneous protection of senior management and 2) the absolute shower of lies that tony hall poured into everyone's ears about this. tony was always the smiley guy who made inspiring speeches but behind the scenes it appears he was utterly corrupt!
"For the anonymous BBC leakers without whom we would never have known about Bashir's dishonesty there was only excoriation - briefed against by the BBC to the newspapers as "jealous colleagues" and referred to in an internal management document as "troublemakers." Because of "this sordid saga", says the document "we can either go the formal disciplinary route, which needs proof and may be messy or pick off the troublemakers one by one with a stiff warning and ensure they are found work elsewhere as speedily as is practicable".The only named whistleblower Matt Wiessler would never again get any BBC work, Hall assured the governors. Wiessler paid a heavy price - his freelance graphics business eventually collapsed so he left London and in his own words became "a bit of a drifter… I tried lots of other things, but at heart I was always a television current affairs guy."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56680229
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 May 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
i mean this is real dark shit!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 May 2021 15:28 (three years ago) link
just passed a car with a bumper sticker that said ❤️ Honk if you miss Princess Diana :[ and jason very solemnly honked— Patricia Lockwood (@TriciaLockwood) May 21, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
it's what she would've wanted
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 May 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
I heard she later became an advocate for distracted driving prevention ... ho ho ho!
― calzino, Friday, 21 May 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
Glad to see Hall has gone; there’s shit to answer for from 2016 let alone 1996
― stet, Saturday, 22 May 2021 12:29 (three years ago) link
i always remember that she had been photographed a lot visiting minefield clearance sites just prior and when i heard she died i immediately assumed she had stepped on a landmine.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 22 May 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
I can never get that Archbishop Of Canterbury cut-up on Blue Jam "Lord Of Landmines .. give them AIDS " out of my head!
― calzino, Saturday, 22 May 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
i'll put this here rather than the tennis thread but I am so fucking angry i'm shaking, after listening to BBC Five Live's Sonja McLaughlan ponder out loud whether Naomi Osaka's depression might be an excuse because she's not great on clay, or whether she just needs to suck it up and talk to the media cos it's a weakness like having a weak forehand
i dunno if this'll get picked up anywhere but jesus fucking christ
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
The Sonja McLaughlan who sat 'sitting in her car crying' after receiving online abuse over an interview with an England rugby player?
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/six-nations/sonja-mclaughlan-reporter-interview-questions-farrell-jones-b1808781.html
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
oh shit was that her?
i hope she gets bullied out of a fucking job for this but i doubt it
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
"There's a school of thought, isn't there, around Naomi Osaka, that suggests, y'know, look, clay isn't her favourite surface, and she didn't really want to be challenged, about, by the media, should she underperform in Paris...Is there any merit in that school of thought?"
"Look I believe Naomi Osaka is quite a shy person. If she had a weakness in her game, for instance, if she had an underperforming backhand, y'know an elite athlete would work on that...so if media is not her strength is that not something to work on? Because players have their responsibilities and commitments to sponsors and the media."
Transcribed it for the record and to reassure myself i'm not, in fact, going mad.
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
what the fuck
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
How much better to be a miserable surly cunt like Andy Murray and treat the media like the shit on your (tennis) shoes.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
in her own hideous way she is actually doing a very grand job of justifying Naomi's decision 1000%
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2yadaLXMAA0dLU?format=jpg&name=900x900
apologies for CWS content NV, but this one was pretty good I thought!
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I've sent a formal complaint, never thought I'd be that kind of listener
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
disgraceful. Barry Cowan on sky sports news earlier blithely stating that scrutiny is just part of the game and you can't change the rules for one player. BARRY COWAN FFS! what did you ever achieve other than wild cards into Wimbledon you miserable fuck?
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 20:09 (three years ago) link
Thank fuck all these broadcasters don't have to do mental health awareness for 51 weeks of the year
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
Even his name is terrible.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 12:34 (three years ago) link
Good for you NV. Even if nothing substantial comes of it those complaints get read and are responded to and at the very least her producers will know about it. There is a massively paranoid culture at the BBC around audience complaints so they may even feel a momentary twinge of terror.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
i didn't ask for a reply, just felt like it should be registered. these will be the same idiots who wring their hands when a celebrity kills themself, utterly unaware of the slow steady drips they add to a poisonous narrative themselves
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
Holby City is being axed after 20+ years. Meanwhile, when the Euros start, Eastenders is going to have each week's worth of episodes put on iPlayer on the Monday so they can be watched at viewers' leisure. Both of those decisions make sense to me (Holby is terrible, in a way that even Casualty manages to not be), but it feels like a significant move in how UK drama is valued.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
I agree with Chiles.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/02/its-not-just-naomi-osaka-no-one-really-likes-post-match-interviews
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:31 (three years ago) link
what the fuck is going on with this programming
Abused By My GirlfriendI Am a Men's Rights ActivistI Am Not a RapistInside the Secret World of Incels
first one might be fine idk but there's clearly a pattern here & I don't like it
― Left, Saturday, 3 July 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
how many winston marshall types do they have working there now I wonder
― Left, Saturday, 3 July 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Citizens of Somewhere - BBC Radio 4 John Harris of the Guardian presents a new series telling the story of the UK in 2021 through the voices and stories of ordinary people in four places with ...
oh fuck me they are really doing this
― calzino, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
lol read that in 'radio times' this morning and thought about you.
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
he might be a bit self-conscious about repeating the things he did + was heavily criticised for in his print version safaris if he wasn't such a self-clowning arrogant prick
― calzino, Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
For your information I’ve been asked by BBC management to delete the tweet with regards to the Mail’s articles about Jess Brammar as they say it’s an internal matter for the BBC.— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 22, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 August 2021 20:33 (two years ago) link
Gotta say I am finding it hard to care.
The point about the attack on Jess Brammar & Jim Waterson is that, despite the gross invasion of privacy and bin-rummaging level of social media stalking, it strikes me as *not* personal, in that it is intended to set a *general* precedent about what private views are acceptable.— James B (@piercepenniless) August 23, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 August 2021 08:34 (two years ago) link
Robbie Gibb, The Tory board member who’s trying to block it, appears to have lied on his declaration of personal interests. He was also an executive member of a Tory lobbying group called Enterprise Forum at the time he was appointed but failed to mention it. All reference to him has now been scrubbed from Enterprise Forum’s website.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 August 2021 08:46 (two years ago) link
Here's my interview with white feminist Emma Barnett this morning. When confronted about how white blonde women continue to hoard all the power...she refuses to engage with the material of the book and asks stupid questions. https://t.co/MYliYbnDEG— Rafia Zakaria (@rafiazakaria) September 9, 2021
Emma Barnett successfully proving the point of Rakia's book, firstly she starts schooling a brown skinned woman from a w/c background on class and spends the rest of the interview refusing to engage properly with what she is saying and arrogantly shuts down the absolutely burningly otm criticism Rakia directs at Priti Patel with the tendentious bollocks that you aren't allowed to criticise Tories if they aren't there to answer back.
― calzino, Saturday, 11 September 2021 09:13 (two years ago) link
BBC chairman Richard Sharp confirms Jess Brammar has been appointed #RTSCambridge— Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) September 15, 2021
― stet, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
The culture secretary has privately expressed her fury at the BBC’s Nick Robinson after he told the prime minister to “stop talking” during a tense interview.Nadine Dorries, who is overseeing the negotiations between the government and the corporation on the future of the licence fee, told allies: “Nick Robinson has cost the BBC a lot of money.”Dorries recently issued the BBC with an ultimatum, telling bosses that she would not talk to them about the licence fee settlement until they brought forward reforms to address bias and elitism. Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, is set to make a “significant intervention” on impartiality in the coming weeks.
Nadine Dorries, who is overseeing the negotiations between the government and the corporation on the future of the licence fee, told allies: “Nick Robinson has cost the BBC a lot of money.”
Dorries recently issued the BBC with an ultimatum, telling bosses that she would not talk to them about the licence fee settlement until they brought forward reforms to address bias and elitism. Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, is set to make a “significant intervention” on impartiality in the coming weeks.
shocked to see Nick Robinson allegedly doing harm to the BBC's otherwise impeccable record on impartiality and how threats towards the license fee are being used to demand nothing less than total obsequiousness from now on. I thought they already had something quite close to that tbh
― calzino, Sunday, 24 October 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
If Dorries wants more Man Like Mobeen and Kurupt FM she should just say so
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 24 October 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
I’d be interested to know how stuff like today’s bizarre transphobic piece, or the series of interviews earlier in the year on channel crossings by a journalist with very clear far-right ties, actually make it to publication / air. Are there central editorial teams that have to sign things off? Independent units with different interpretations of a code of standards?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
Any point in people complaining?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link