A step too far, this is causing as much kerfuffle as when the moved women's hour.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/change_to_international_pages.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/14/ben-bradshaw-bbc-management
the bbc does seem amazingly inept at covering its arse. it is kind of a symptom of a wider elite-class self-aggrandizement that the likes of byford and thompson think they deserve mad money, but it's still going to come back to bite them.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
beeb has kind of an impossible job in dealing with its critics, since they simultaneously claim the licence fee isn't justified because the bbc isn't populist enough and that it isn't justified because it doesn't provide enough specialised content that the commercial sector won't touch. i can't see that sharing the licence fee does anything to help except spreading it thinner.
agree that bbc bosses don't help the cause though.
― joe, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
is it really going to be dismantled? ― D Aziz (esquire1983), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:03 (5 years ago)
Possibly, if - when - the Tories get in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/wed-abolish-bbc-trust-hunt
― DavidM, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Has to be a troll:
Pay per view BBC news would allow the lefties to view their own biased news reports while the rest of us could choose ITV news for more impartial reporting.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this business about "damaging commercial competitors" really pisses me off. we should be celebrating the fact that the BBC creates quality products and services for "free", not requiring it to dumb down its offerings so that something inferior and expensive can maintain market share.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Whenever that comment is made, it is usually voiced by someone with vested interests eg. Murdoch. In America, Murdoch goes after Obama but here he goes after impartial news media. This should be a good compass for anyone wishing to locate the centre of power in any given country. Who does Murdoch go after in, say, China?
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, you do wonder whether this is the quid for the quo of The Sun's support.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
tories don't need any outside encouragement to go after the bbc, tbh.
― joe, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
So is the Mail anti-Beeb purely because of DMGT's regional newspapers? Or is there something else, aside from Jonathan Ross and the telly tax?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's ideological - the bbc is full of lefties.
― joe, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
not only that, the whole concept of the BBC is lefty.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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 was just blithely assuming that that all terrible, royal arselicking, Welsh newsreaders are het!
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 20:09 (nine months ago) link
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?"
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 06:24 (nine months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 20:43 (nine months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 22:23 (nine months ago) link
The BBC News front is a bit "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich" at the moment.https://i.imgur.com/lKLemo0.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 13 July 2023 04:33 (nine months ago) link
Why does Huw Edwards take ice baths?
― conrad, Thursday, 13 July 2023 06:24 (nine months ago) link
On BBC's "today's papers", there is one front page missing...
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 July 2023 07:38 (nine months ago) link
They often don't get sent The Sun's. I'm surprised whenever it is there (not that I check it that often).
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 July 2023 09:59 (nine months ago) link
welp stephen nolan allegedly sending nudie pics of someone else to his staff now is it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:24 (eight months ago) link
hah, I would love to see this sanctimonious slug getting sacked .. but sadly....
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:39 (eight months ago) link
scumbag transphobic troll caught being a sex pest shocker
― you're a sick man, Buddy Rich (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 13:26 (eight months ago) link
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
― you're a sick man, Buddy Rich (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 August 2023 11:30 (eight months ago) link
Xzibit.jpeg
― van der gragt generator (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 18 August 2023 12:18 (eight months 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Lol I am not a radio listener but...I hope not
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:30 (five months ago) link
They're an industrious ppl tbf
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 November 2023 17:56 (five 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 (five 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