The BBC

yikes. there are some bbc managers who take the gender pay gap quite seriously and are sorting it before the next financial year. and then i guess there are those who aren't.

i loved murder at the lucky holiday hotel, btw, everyone should listen to it.

Get away, well I never etc

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/25/bbcs-steph-mcgovern-says-she-would-earn-more-if-she-was-posher

"McGovern, the daughter of a teacher and radiographer"

gonna stick my neck out here Steph and say you're not really working class

She needs to get onto Lauren Laverne’s agent.

Posh people getting paid more was built into British currency at one time, right? Because genteel people were paid in guineas whereas pounds/shillings/pence for everyone else.

Lauren Laverne is a similarly son/daughter of toil as Maconie is. i.e. regional accent but basically posh!

I know that! Tongue firmly in cheek (although her parents’ dads were both miners).

sorry suzy, I should have known better!

This is amazing:

http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk

The BBC has put 16000 sound effects from their archive online for download.

I will spend the weekend turning “Snow' surface grinder operating at steel works 1969” into an ambient techno record,

I'm looking for Humphrys Death Rattle wav, but no luck. This is actually pretty good tbf!

"'Snow' surface grinder operating at steel works 1969" and "'Cock-a-doodle-doo' ships' sirens sounded" are both excellent, and this is only the first page.

I've always liked sirens, looking forward to listening to all 223 siren recordings on here

"Specially created electronic sound" is a good search term for radiophonic workshop type stuff

Having a hard time finding hauntological sounds in here with the 1.0 search function. There should be plenty but the keywords aren't matching.

A great thing for BBC to share though, regardless.

every time BBC4 repeats the documentary Doris Day: Virgin Territory that title looks uglier and stupider and uglier

Good point. It’s kind of amazing how much I’ve turned on this institution in the last two years.

The fucking state of them these days, all I can think of is people I really want to die and more people i really want to die and I'm paying for this shit!

still instinctively think the BBC is a good thing as an institution but the TV landscape is complicated enough in 2018 and god knows these dicks aren't doing much to make their own case

I don't think it is at all tbh. But my levels of hatred for them has gone through the roof in recent years. Refusing to report on that BMJ paper last year was the absolute tipping point for me. Not even going talk about their drama dept, but I'm still a heavy R3/4/5/WS user, and perhaps some of that content wouldn't happen on a commercial broadcaster, so will grudgingly admit it still does some unique stuff!

although I'd completely remove 5Live from that, as it doesn't seem any different to TalkSport these days, although at least they have taken the burden paying Motson a wage now.

difference is my DAB radio doesn't pick up TalkSport so well

good radio

it was annoying once the BBC decided not to pay for radio coverage of non-Prem games!

any reason why the Beeb seems to be broadcasting coverage of this pitiful boxing cosplay i first heard of a couple of hours ago?

the reason seems to be "Stephen Nolan likes to pretend to be exasperated for money" but

Is that any way describe a Papal visit?

"When Crouch was 'dissed' by Prince Harry"

ho ho ho lol etc... arrrgh! fucking privatise these cunts already.

Can add this deleted tweet to the pile now. pic.twitter.com/t2NosOwAZa

— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) October 29, 2018

so sick of politically correct whinging about death squads

I've not seen one mention of the United Nations rapporteur arriving to investigate extreme poverty in the UK. Another one for the dossier to be read to them before they are lined up against the wall.

This is atrocious:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/46147166

emily maitlis, how that boot taste

another one for the dossier.

I've been in high-pressure press conferences. And the art is to ask the single most succinct question that will land you the best possible response.

lol, good advice!

never mind pertinent questions, you are just making content.

mr president this is not so much a question as a comment

adding:
i mean, she's kind of right? obviously the WH is being colossally dishonest abt what happened but it's ALWAYS ALREADY colosally dishonest and yet still "the rules and conventions" are adhered to day in day out, to be gamed by them ("them") and whinily invoked us ('us"). the entire set-up is bullshit and should be binned forthwith by serious media outlets soup to nuts, if they actually care abt informing their readers and their viewers. if you're going timidly (or even dickishly) to test the limits of the form, you should really properly test them and blow the whole thing up. no best-formed version of what acosta was doing was going to be the unmasking-oz moment.

BBC political hack admits that this game of etiquette/presentation is far too important to be ruined by journalism. Saying that, Acosta seems like a complete cock as well!

She strikes me as the type of upper middle class white woman who uses ‘with all due respect’ to indicate anger.

I agree with Maitlis.

I mean, if it was the same question being persued cause Trump hadn’t answered, fine, but it seems dickish to rob other journalists of the chance to ask their own.

No, I think you have right of reply at the very least when the Prez is making lame personal comments about you and your employer. That fucker needs reminding that he’s everyone’s employee, including the members of the press.

it's hard for me not take such a smug bbc crypto-tory twat as the right person to preaching political hack etiquette and when Piers Morgan is endorsing someones's "unpopular" hottake, you know something stinks a bit.

sorry garbled rushed post but with the BBC's record of impartial political punditry in recent years, she's really on thin ice and wanging bricks in a glasshouse and all that!

I don’t give a fuck what Piers Morgan thinks and I wish Twitter would allow me to mute him properly instead of letting “zingers” against him stink up my timeline.

If you mute him Twitter just replaces him with Dan Hodges iirc

But another annoying aspect is making some blatant clickbait that is 100% guaranteed to be endorsed by scores of other political hacks and guaranteed to harvest loads of US outrage, job done etc .. but then people saying "very brave take here.. etc

in fact using Trump for zillions of clicks is probably about the most cowardly and pathetic thing a political hack could do tbh. She's another one who makes me feel genuinely queasy that I'm paying her fucking wages!

Acosta may well have been pushy, greedy, but I thought his persistent point about Trump's slack use of the word 'invasion' was a rare instance of a journalist publicly holding this careless, ceaseless liar to some kind of account and by doing so, insisting that words matter - which is surely at the heart of journalism.

Sorry but wtf? How is she in the right about this at all? He didn’t “mistouch” the intern at all - that’s the Infowars edit that’s shamefully been circulated by the White House and which no journalist should be given the oxygen of attention. Like oh no Acosta asked too many questions and that’s just terrible, but this whole flimsy thing is resting on the false edit and that’s acceptable and not terrifying?

Also, fuck the BBC and their commitment to platforming fascists.

what I got from her awful piece was the sense that she is so used to working for the bbc that she has forgot to even affect an air of journalistic ethics, its all a game to her and attacking some hack for not being respectful and cowed enough in the White House is utter shit - and her conduct is problematic enough in the uk, but it seems even more ghastly in the context of a KKK friendly US prez.

iow, how that boot taste

It's almost as if professional ethics is frequently a (self-internalised) justification for power worship