I can't really see what Peston is saying here.
I don't like him btw. Think he was OK in 2008 before he was over-promoted.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 30 January 2020 07:05 (four years ago) link
He's saying that he cannot step outside of his own privilege to report from a neutral unbiased position. However he says it in such a cluelessly privileged way that it suggests he has little sense of what direction reality even lies in.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 30 January 2020 07:12 (four years ago) link
Sarah Sands has resigned from Today with 6 months notice. I'd enjoy a bit of BBC austerity blues if it wasn't for the certainty that Today will still suck just as much shit after she's gone.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 January 2020 09:18 (four years ago) link
https://shop.conservatives.com/
― koogs, Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
Also great how all these wankers just stroll into other jobs with nary a pause - like it's the 1950s or something. (xp)
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
(oops, wrong thread)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
or is it?
― calzino, Thursday, 30 January 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
‘Victory’ mugs, smh
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
As an aside, I’m St Andrews there’s a Victory Memorial Hall, and everyone calls it the Victoria Memorial Hall. I find it infuriating.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 30 January 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
Radio 3 right now: four white middle class people pondering the woke agenda
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
jesus wept is nowhere sacred from this interminable fucking bullshit, it's like nazi america.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
It wasn't that bad, just funny
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
I just remembered Newsnight is doing a report on the Irish election so I switched over. First fifteen minutes on the government threatening the BBC and worrying about democracy. If this is so bad, why is Laura K still in her fucking job lads? Ugh, wish Lewis Goodall didn’t go there.
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
https://inews.co.uk/news/elisabeth-murdoch-surprise-contender-to-become-new-bbc-director-general-1394245
― koogs, Monday, 10 February 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
loool
― imago, Monday, 10 February 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
> “It could be a genius move. They wouldn’t dare f*** with a Murdoch,” said one insider.
i think they are over- / under-estimating boris
― koogs, Monday, 10 February 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
Although Downing Street’s dream choice to lead the BBC into a post licence fee future would be a longstanding critic such as Rebekah Brooks, CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, a figure such as Ms Murdoch would prove an acceptable compromise.
Sophie's choice between a Murdoch and a Murdoch, basically.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 10 February 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
this such a fucking floater, this. journalism is so fucked
― stet, Monday, 10 February 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
absolutely beyond parody, everyone involved should be shot into space immediately
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Typical of the I / Independent.
Carolyn Fairbairn seems a reasonable bet if they wanted someone with strong Tory links who’d have the experience to be at least partly justifiable in the role.
― ShariVari, Monday, 10 February 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
any relation to the other great aussie (social) media dynasty
― imago, Monday, 10 February 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
― Fizzles, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
v much testing the public temperature.
― Fizzles, Monday, 10 February 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
Between this
We are aware thatvthe bbc is hosting a transphobic academic today to discuss our campaign - we were not informed of this, nor were we invited to speak for ourselves. It is disappointing that BBC impartiality seemingly does not apply when trans rights are concerned.— Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (@Labour_Trans) February 12, 2020
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
what could possibly go wrong, just asking questions nbd
God imagine what people they’re going to get with this. pic.twitter.com/kNATeIqXeg— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) February 18, 2020
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
If only there was a good hardcore song they could use as the title/theme music.
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
lol i was gonna say
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
they've changed the caption on this image now but the rest of the article is still fucking bonkers
ah yes, the two approaches to taxation: cuts, or punishing the rich https://t.co/hGbIY9QLEP pic.twitter.com/qrOeTy3qYf— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) February 25, 2020
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
what a useless US correspondent, their US coverage on WS is often bad in my experience.
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
They gave quite a lot of coverage to that Sir Michael Marmot/Institute of Health Equity on falling life expectancy in the UK. in the past they tended to ignore damning reports on austerity from BMJ and the UN rapporteur.
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:44 (four years ago) link
*report*
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
That's because he has a silly name so only a few of the crylaughing masses will take it seriously
― imago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
big_lebowski_nice_marmot.png
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
probably more to do with recent "we need to talk about license fees" chat from downing st
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
never not at it
Can you come up with something else pic.twitter.com/BwAGCCq0lE— shon faye. (@shonfaye) February 26, 2020
― median punt (gyac), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:03 (four years ago) link
Booming reply
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
never not at it again
When Toby Young was on @BBCr4today to plug his free speech union, the "other" voice to ensure the balance the BBC so loves was Trevor Phillips.Last night Trevor Phillips spoke at the *launch* of the Free Speech Union pic.twitter.com/FA242Y65Ig— Ross McCafferty (@RossMcCaff) February 27, 2020
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/27/tv-debates-brexit-bbc-centre-ground-leavers-remainers
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
tbf on the BBC Claire Fox wasn't available at the time.
― calzino, Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
that guardian article reaffirms what Local Garda was saying years ago tbh
― imago, Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
And builds on it tbf
One notable incident came when in order to find an “authentic” northern voice, all plausible interviewees who displayed any obvious erudition were vetoed. In their place, newspaper owner Danny Lockwood was slotted into the identity sudoku, as his tone was seen to more directly signal his real northern identity. Several producers thought fit to mention that said individual was, in fact, a reactionary whose past achievements include mocking the “Zorro” outfits worn by some Muslim women. But the grids didn’t have any disqualifying categories.
Yeah, LG shared his experiences brushing on this. Damning, though hardly surprising, stuff. Get off the grid BBC.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
Not all national media enterprises can be guerrilla organisations my man :)
― imago, Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
Too true :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 27 February 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
original full-length Fence article appeared a couple of weeks ago and is worth reading.
― Fizzles, Friday, 28 February 2020 07:09 (four years ago) link
just heard "Kate Andrews of The Spectator .." on an ad for tonight's Any Questions. She's their economics correspondent now it seems, what a fucking champion acquisition they've made. At least now BBC don't have to mention her association with that shifty right-wing think tank that loves to dump on the NHS.
― calzino, Friday, 28 February 2020 08:12 (four years ago) link
They've bumped Andy McDonald from Any Questions tonight because no Tory MP could be arsed turning up. Shitting it that having two lefties (Faiza Shaheen is there as well) picking on poor Kate Andrews wouldn't be balanced and lol impartial.
― calzino, Friday, 28 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n06/james-butler/the-bbc-on-the-rack
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
Is anyone else watching Noughts + Crosses & is it worth having a thread?
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
is it a case of bbc doing something half decent for once shocker? I've been avoiding bbc drama like a fucking virus for so long now nearly everything they do is below my radar.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link