The BBC

yes, finished I'm afraid. and it was really just watching tv in a museum, but it was done about as well as that can be. ofc, the problem is that it's not really possible to watch it all in any curated way anywhere else. i hope that changes.

just to round out an unspoken point:

he said he was startled by the number of different views, which taken in isolation were rarely belligerent, malignant or unpleasant, but brought together in unmediated ways might come into conflict, and that community television was one way, quite a good one actually, of managing that mediation

'but brought together in unmediated ways might come into conflict' and be made belligerent, malignant or unpleasant in the process. this is of course the social media model and it's probably worth considering how the courtesies and rituals of media engagement represented in the broadcast production and distribution models on display at Raven Row, might be reproduced in the IP and social media production and distribution models. it doesn't seem to me entirely *necessary* that the Thiel application of Girard, by which I mean the instigation of the thumbs up model of mimetic sorting of groups, has to be the only way to derive insight and communicative value from social media, though I'm not certain about that. On clickbait measurement I'm considerably less sure. If something can be counted, something will be counted, and used as a measurement of better or worse. And that is a problem inherent to addressable media (as opposed to broadcast media).

Foucault's recognition of the power of structuring data to form the political landscape gets truer and truer exactly as it's overlooked

The media is the panopticon ffs

Loved these posts Fizzles, wish I’d known about this exhibition sooner though.

no doubt to be replaced by another Tory donor https://t.co/w2tycNL57z

— James Mackenzie 🐀v (@mrjamesmack) April 28, 2023

is nadine busy?

"I am going undercover..." i.e. being actively misleading.

In some journalistic contexts, this is valid. Essential even. But when it comes to mental/neurological diagnosis, an *incredibly* complex process as is, dishonesty has a huge impact on the outcome.

/5 pic.twitter.com/yWL2t9XlTx

— Dean Burnett (@Garw✧✧✧@o✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧) (@garwboy) May 15, 2023

Things are somehow worse elsewhere

Just for clarity… this is not a live situation 😳
It happened in Scotland and we are covering it on @5_News today https://t.co/9NFjQxCbpo

— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) May 16, 2023

it's bad enough that you're platforming Jonathan fucking Pie but running a trailer during the football commentary is pure violence

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0gn8_pX0AAhqaX?format=jpg&name=large

and a certain horrendous bbc presenter is trending, the one that dressed as a cowboy once!

tbf if it's that cunt i thought he was Channel 5 now

On Radio 2 also I think?

It weren't me, guv.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-jeremy-vine-denies-bbc-30421015

... or Rylan.

that picture's doing him no favours

I would have certainly thought Westwood or Moyles but it makes it sound like it’s a current presenter

i forgot about his Radio 2 gig

couldn't happen to a nicer guy

Huw, sorry, How long do we have to wait to find out who this is?

Hoooooo boy

are youse dropping cryptic clues here that it is Huw Edwards!

"Nonce" is trending today - you wouldn't get that on threads!

dunno if its been doctored but photo of huw in his pants now doing the rounds on twitter

more out of his pants than in them though

unfortunately for BBC nonces, Starmer isn't DPP anymore so they are very likely to get prosecuted now

I would have advised Huw Edwards to turn the other cheek but photographic evidence suggests he's already done that.

he's really fucked his chance of a knighthood now!

he broke the rules by going full pedo before the knighthood

BBC not helped by their current Director General having one of those generic smug Tory faces which makes him look like he's constantly smirking.

Then there's this...

Tim Davie says gap between initial contact and approaching presenter was reasonable but ‘there may be some learnings’ from case

findings out, learnings, laughings, that's what the BBC is for

Doesn't the 'victim' now say this is all bullshit made up by her mom?

there are fresh accusations from another young woman about "menacing texts" and requests for sexually explicit pics. I don't know if this is normal for ppl using dating apps but am calling that this guy is a wrong 'un.

has it been confirmed that it's a woman? The bbc report I say was sticking determinedly to the formulation 'young person', no pronouns, almost to the point of unintentional comedy (clarifying that this young person is a separate young person from the first young person etc)

Yeah, I actually don't know the gender of the accusers

I read "youth" being used in earlier reports, and only males are known as youths in newspaper speak.

I was just blithely assuming that that all terrible, royal arselicking, Welsh newsreaders are het!

The ever professional and competent Kay Burley talking to a government minister on Sky News this morning:

"What would you like to say to the parents of this boy, er, person?"

The Scum has a long history of being the most prolifically homophobic tabloid sheet in Britain; it has leveraged sexuality against individuals it seeks to exert control over and as a driver of public discourses for decades. In doing so it has ruined lives and encouraged violence

— tom (@tomrade_) July 12, 2023

Newsnight this evening hosted Sun columnist and prominent dickhead Rod Liddle to tell its audience that the paper had behaved impeccably. The corporation really doesn't help itself sometimes. https://t.co/PhUNoI1O2k

— James B (@piercepenniless) July 12, 2023

The BBC News front is a bit "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich" at the moment.

https://i.imgur.com/lKLemo0.jpg

Why does Huw Edwards take ice baths?

On BBC's "today's papers", there is one front page missing...

They often don't get sent The Sun's. I'm surprised whenever it is there (not that I check it that often).

welp stephen nolan allegedly sending nudie pics of someone else to his staff now is it

hah, I would love to see this sanctimonious slug getting sacked .. but sadly....

scumbag transphobic troll caught being a sex pest shocker

just caught a 5 Live presenter talking to a couple of 5 Live presenters about the interview they did yesterday with a 5 Live presenter to discuss their 5 Live shows

Xzibit.jpeg

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

I remember this cowardly intellectual minnow repeatedly asking Corbyn to condemn the IRA - what a fucking pumper

Good to see:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-world-service-announces-emergency-radio-service-for-gaza