The BBC

heading for another 'snowmageddon' as experienced in the previous two years.

It used to snow more than that every bloody winter. #kickaballinthestreet

what are we doing across Britain to prepare ourselves as we head into winter?

Probably 'sod all' as usual.

I have booked my market stall on the frozen Thames. When I was young there were two or three Frost Fairs even in summer, when the golden corn stood tall and you walk around naked till November, plucking ripe apples from the hedgerows. The partridges flew into your mouth feathered and cooked. It were a grand ride down, mind.

there are apples still on the tree i can see from the office window. nb i am fully clothed.

This is just comically piss-poor

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16692342

"News" item on phones going off during concert performances on BBC Breakfast was followed by a Q & A with 2 (2!) people about this. What's there to say, other than "it's annoying"?

Breakfast is hilariously beige tbf

"coming up later, we have a performance from the newly reformed Turin Brakes live in the studio"

government conspiracy to hurry you out of the house for work

Get the benefit scroungers out down the job centre to look for jobs that don't exist

I know this is Media Theory 101, but the way it sort of flattens things out infuriates me, mounting tension with Iran being made to seem equivalent with some stupid nonsense they all grin and simper over. STOP GRINNING!!!

pretty sure the benefit scroungers are watching Jeremy Kyle on the other side

This is just comically piss-poor

ffs what a bunch of pretentious wankers

it was tl;dw - can u give us a precis?

It was like the Raygun interview, except with graphic designers.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Call it a return to the 19th century guild model of the arts and craft movement - or a kind of Andy Warhol's Factory. Many artists and musicians of the Chicago scene swing by all day and night.

Next, a charming young French woman inherits a large estate and decides to leave Paris to try and make it as a farmer, but get this: she's always wearing cool clothes!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9356176/BBC-Rogue-Traders-Dan-Penteado-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-allegations.html

schadenfreuding so hard at this

dear BBC, why the fuck do i need to hear half hour updates on the pistorius case every morning?

like i know it's easier to put a correspondent in pretoria than in damascus but does anyone outside south africa really give a shit???

this is Spellbinding Court Drama, mordy.

i did learn that south africa doesn't have a jury system

An olympic icon shot his model girlfriend in the 24 hr news era you should expect to be hearing about this

Pistorius is much better known in Britain than, say, OJ Simpson was.

haha yes thats true , and that trial was all over the 24 hour media too.

"now we will interrupt this very interesting report about Japanese desperate attempts to rejuvenate their economy through massive infrastructure spending to take you back to the bail hearing we already wasted most of your morning drive covering"

fuck oscar pistorius, fuck his bail hearing and fuck bbc for being totally worthless

It's a Good Story. That's all the BBC is interested in, as well as most of the rest of humanity. Japanese economy? Complex issue, no easy solution, therefore = boring/Not A Good Story.

i understand that the news will never be as "pure" or whatever that i want it to be but i want to hear some actual news during my 30 minutes in the car, not 25 minutes of speculating over whether he'll get bail (surprise! he did!) and 5 minutes of traffic.

There are a lot of implications in the Pistorius case - about the continued corruption of SA's police forces, about the facade of The Olympic Spirit, about violence against women, and about gun control, among other things - so it's not just True EastEnders. Nonetheless that doesn't bother the media - all they want is something that will hook readers. listeners and viewers.

As for BBC News; chronic over-investment, not enough actual "news" to fill dead air time, hence all the bulletins with survey findings, etc.

it's the hot morning commute news slot! you cannot convince me that there are literally no other stories in the world worth covering this week.

It's just that the management are convinced. Why, listeners might get bored and go watch Sky News!

tbh i'm surprised there's not a 'man walks from shop to car' incident in america that the bbc could be obsessed with

or maybe that's just the web site

it's over

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01cgwgb

the bbc is over. it can fuck off now. it can get to fuck.

it's over, everyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxYdj9dGcI

the bbc has always tended towards the ideologically supine, vaguely bien pensant most of the time but complaisant whenever anything serious is happening, like the cardiff school of journalism study which showed it gave less coverage to sceptical nongivernmental voices than any other broadcaster during the iraq war

it's nosedived into unexamined banality and idiocy-pandering from top to fucking bottom

for me it's a source of national shame

List of sources of national shame (UK edition)

tbf describing anything as a 'national shame' is being just as bad as those semiologically infantile morons

they're just cunts. no shame here. what even is a 'nation' except their own self-affirmed demographic

makes u think

how are benefits claimants not "taxpayers"? what the living fuck????

it's completely within the Beeb's public service remit to address the concern of morons. repeatedly. for several hours a day.

BBC are cockroaches, obv, but also fuck the 'claimant' (assuming they're actually real) for collaborating with this shit. Fucking tool.

otm

Two of the hard-working taxpayers (HWTs) are so effortlessly patronising, they only heighten one’s sympathy for the struggling claimants. Before meeting an unemployed single mother, one HWT says she won’t be happy if her victim spends money on cigarettes and alcohol: cut to the woman smoking a fag while some beer cans rest in a nearby bin bag.

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/tv-preview-nick-and-margaret-we-all-pay-your-benefits-1-2992234

i'm looking forward to Nick and Margaret: We All Subsidize Your Underpaid Employees

im currently petitioning to morally adopt a family of four in rotheram who will be required to prove that every morsel of gruel purchased with the excise tax extorted from my burgundy is used in an efficient and equitable fashion