The BBC

that would be too infantile and condescending for cbeebies, but I presume it is aimed at big children.

CBBC?

I agree -- all these are dreadful and shameful.

the same big children that didn't feel there was a lack of consistency in voting for the most right-wing tories in decades and then clapping the NHS

apparently the series on the Murdochs was very good, but then they still do infantile CCHQ propaganda like this

Worse if aimed at younger viewers really but as it's from their main News account I doubt it.

That style of report in itself just feels so archaic regardless of the subject and intention. Set up a question, add a 'comedy' angle to the presentation and just wrap it up with 'only time will tell if the question we are asking here can ever really be answered'. This one was almost funny for just how unintentionally clunky it was (talking about Superman doing magic tricks and just standing there handing out money) but trying to be ironic is as bad as being consciously sycophantic at this point. Why should we have to acknowledge a difference?

'encouraging us to get out there and join the Chancellor on the front line'

It's unbecoming of journalism full stop

But tbf this has always been a personal bugbear about the Beeb since at least the Birt era

at least super Rish is 6"4 tall in his dreams

(thought this bump was going to be about matthew postgate's new job with UKStratCom)

has uh the MP stuff been properly announced yet? i hadn’t seen anything in the news.

wait i’m confused koogs - are you referring to this from Jan?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/non-executive-director-appointments

Oh, hadn't noticed the date on that. I wonder how that sits with the BBC job? Seems like an odd mix. (Or does it?)

The BBC removed the Superishi propaganda and blamed readers for being stupid

We have removed a video of the chancellor’s plans for the UK economy. While we don’t think that readers would take the images at face value, on reflection we think the illustrations struck the wrong note and we’ve removed the article.

Maybe it's a tiny consolation that calling these fucks on social media has some effect, sometimes, nowadays

Just posting this here for a classic BBC bit of context-setting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53676550

Nina Simone was a revered singer and civil rights activist, known for performing songs such as Feelin' Good, I put A Spell On You and I Loves You, Porgy.

there was a decent program on Schubert's Winterreise on R4 earlier that inspired me to dig it out.

never a bad time to dig out Winterreise but ffs Radio 4 it's August

I still don't know barely any of the lyrics but love the mood. but possibly at odds with the incoming heatwave if you are looking for summer vibes!

"mein he-erz, me-ein Herz!"

Concern trolling from here as I don't watch TV at all now, but im kind of stunned to see Newsnight is this bad? Is this typical of it now?

We're live now on @BBCTwo with Mark Urban - you can also watch online at https://t.co/7kmessYy9v #Newsnight | @MarkUrban01 pic.twitter.com/hIaQzGdM5E

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 7, 2020

since this is the thread where it was discussed: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/07/15/the-balletic-millennial-bedtimes-of-normal-people/

with dark, round eyes larger than her breasts

boak

lmao!

"The show is mute on the subject of race yet decided to offer some visual compensation... If race were a subject of true interest to these directors (which it wasn’t to Rooney), and if race were not used in the casting as a nervous form of virtue-signaling, something else might have been done."

The racial elements brought into the show were more problematic than "virtue-signaling", in particular replacing the sadistic and pointedly white Swede of the book with a black man.

Why are all the people who aren’t white people the bad people?

bbc news coverage of asylum seekers the last couple of days is worse than i've ever seen it. zero context. seemingly no interest in them as people, where they've come from, why they've come. the words 'illegal' and 'sovereignty' used over and over again. it's absolutely disgusting.

they're now running an entire segment on 'conversion therapy' for gay people as if it's legitimate!? am i fucking dreaming???

I rarely watch BBC news but just caught that. While I didn't really see any explicit approval - and to me it read as possibly an attempt at 'give them enough rope to hang themselves' perhaps? likely my own bias there tho - I have no idea what it was even doing there and why they didn't follow up what he said with some actual questions? If the aim was to show that 'it can be hard to define what this is in order to ban it' (? is it?) then that didn't exactly come across. A really odd thing to include. Did that X Factor guy only go on the X Factor to promote that dodgy org? So many questions.

that gal-dem article Eyeball Kicks linked is great.

they did a fantastic, atmospheric and top notch radio production of The Plague a couple of weeks back and I listened to it on a long walk and was more than whelmed by it and was thinking this will piss off some Tory wankers. Dr. Bernard Rieux was voiced by a woman with a distinctive Caribbean accent and of course she had a wife who died of a different disease etc.. First respondent on their Feedback show on Sunday was some tory twat complaining that this was all wrong with the context of the Jim Crow/colonial era the book was written in etc .. oh go fuck yourself!

has anybody ever gotten any sort of satisfactory response from a bbc complaint

I complained about the existence of Paul Martin more than once, but he's still alive on the air. Highly unsatisfactory.

> has anybody ever gotten any sort of satisfactory response from a bbc complaint

Samira Ahmed

i've complained about a couple of things and the "i'm sorry you feel that way" responses are so fn infuriating.

"many of our viewers enjoy watching far right propagandists"

Really pitiful stuff on DTJR

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53884591

He is also admired for his boldness - he has aligned himself with colourful characters.

During his speeches, he bounces on his feet like a boxer in the ring.

That's one way of describing the shakes I guess

The BBC has a Disinformation reporter.

https://voices.media/bbcs-specialist-disinformation-reporter-marianna-spring-proactively-countering-conspiracies/

Nick Robinson retweets her and says 'get your news from trusted new organizations'.

It's like Henry Kissinger and the Nobel Peace Prize all over again, or whatever.

A sad reminder that fake news spreads like a virus & kills but it’s man made and there is a cure for it. Get your news from trusted news organisations not “friends” or “someone who heard” or “something I read on Facebook” https://t.co/24sgcaxSRk

— Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) August 25, 2020

Unironic use of the term "fake news" is one of my biggest idiot flags nowadays

Oh great, this guy will fix everything

Conservative snowflakes and their bloody cancel culture. pic.twitter.com/W12PwATT0J

— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) August 31, 2020

Dying to know what the worst offending shows are

I mean, it's The Mash Report I guess. Maybe they think HIGNFY is left wing for some reason. They have already scrubbed any trace of Toksvig / Hardy / Steel from The News Quiz and have a revolving door of Times columnists and LM network cunts on there instead.

Gonna have Lee Hurst on every show going shortly

Maybe they should cancel all comedy just to be on the safe side

It is the dawning of the age of Geoff Norcott.

And Andrew Lawrence, god help us all.

no, hold on, he's already alienated anyone who might ever give him a job.

there is absolutely going to be a high profile Titania McGrath tv show though.

Maybe they think HIGNFY is left wing for some reason

been a while since a senior Tory MP guest presented it I guess