The BBC

"We will look into how this happened"
I'm gasping with anticipation for the outcome of this no-stone-unturned investigation.

it's all about the backlash. I refuse to believe BBC senior staff have any sense of embarrassment or are genuinely sorry about any appalling editorial choices at this point.

We are ruled by trolls, and trolling

I bet Rachel Johnson still feels sorry for her too. I'm sure lots of these scumbags do

Rob Burley was head of BBC political programmes when they edited out laughs from a Johnson Question Time appearance, replaced a dishevelled Johnson at the cenotaph with another from years back, and had Laura K repeat lies about Hancock being punched outside a hospital https://t.co/CHp6BYQsvu

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) December 30, 2021

i came here to post the dershowitz tweet and i was too late but i found this bonus in the replies

This guy was just fine though, wasn’t he? pic.twitter.com/NagFKw8el9

— Cammy Middleton (@Cammy2487) December 30, 2021

i take back everything mean i've ever said as long as Trevor Nelson still has a gig

otm, the greatest ever to do it imo

i have a good celebrity story about trevor nelson. when he was still on 1xtra i used to see him sometimes around the studio. one time he was getting a quick cup of tea during a song and he made me a cup and asked me how much milk i wanted in it by asking which member of destiny’s child i wanted the final colour to resemble.

ah man the GOAT

wait it was sugababes, sorry. i said mutya.

Mutya is my answer to a lot of questions

Amol Rajan's big scoop this morning, an exclusive interview with the very "cerebral and complex" Novak Djokovic. I have been hate listening to this loathsome bullshit merchant since he was doing the R4 media show, but at least back then it was his only outlet.

nothing says cerebral like being a pig ignorant anti vax nutter

Rajan is despicable and utterly full of shit as well, he would make an ideal like for like Keunssberg replacement.

oh aye he's the worst, massive "i've got lots of uni mates who get me these jobs" energy

These two paragraphs from Rajan on the BBC News site are a fucking disgrace as well:

Djokovic is, by any measure, a remarkable individual. Raised amidst two wars in the former Yugoslavia, by parents who sold the family gold and negotiated with loan sharks to fund his ambitions, he is fluent in six languages, arguably the greatest player ever to pick up a racket; and - most pertinently - a deeply committed libertarian who believes strongly in individual autonomy.

He has clearly thought deeply about the conflict between individual autonomy and the collective good - and he feels that, as an elite sportsman, his body is his business - in both senses of that word. He says he has an open mind, but as things stand, he will not get the jab.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60354068

No question as to what effect his actions has on others lol.

Could have replaced those two paragraphs with. "He's a cunt and nobody likes him".

on an unrelated note to him being a complete cunt i will maintain to my dying day that Federer is the GOAT and i don't care what the numbers say

Absolutely.

Yeah don't care about the stats

good to see the BBC expanding its coverage of old pop music to two nights of TV every week. maybe since BBC4 isn't working they could rename it Uncut and run non-stop music docs all week

no wait leave a bit of room to stick everyfuckingthing with Mark Kermode involved in there too

another thing they've done is replace Ash Sarkar with fucking Garry Kasparov as a Soviet Union commenter on Rise of the Nazis season 2. You might say "he lived there so fair enough" but the problem is he is a self-promoting know nothing one note grandstanding bullshit merchant and I stopped watching as soon as he came on. He should stick to getting his arse kicked at chess by a pc.

“Uncut” would be a good way of describing BBC Four in more ways than one. but probably not for long…

good to see the BBC expanding its coverage of old pop music to two nights of TV every week. maybe since BBC4 isn't working they could rename it Uncut and run non-stop music docs all week

Sky Arts - or as I like to call it, The Andre Rieu Channel - pretty much does that already.

ha i was gonna mention Sky Arts but they still do the occasional opera or musical theatre broadcast so i let them off

They broadcast the Poly Styrene doc and show some pretty good art docs so they get a pass from me.

Former beeb producer pushing anti-beeb shit now he's gone.

Odd that the BBC Politics pages don’t seem to have any reference to the Johnson comparison between Ukraine and Brexit. I may be wrong and have missed it. It seems to me to be a quite controversial thing to say and noteworthy in the current context. https://t.co/oaK9NDV59t

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) March 19, 2022

they should do more podcasts by comedians

lol i feel like that’s all they do

that's what led me here this morning :D

I've had a blessed couple of hours of R3 listening without hearing one mention of the monarchy, some of the music was forgettable but soothing and made me think about how shouting fuck off at bbc radio content every few minutes is not good for your mental well being.

although I'm not ruling out there might have been a jubilee reference and I inattentively didn't catch it.

gah! and now between every piece of music there is some senile fuck talking about princess Margaret

Craig Brown?

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown author Anne Glenconner, and she's fucking tediously self important!

Scott Mills is proof that there is no god

That's a loss.

*Bit of news of my own today*

I’m delighted to say in September I’ll be joining Global, as co-host of @maitlis and @jonsopel’s new daily news podcast and Analysis and Investigations Editor for the whole network. My brief will be to supercharge the organisation’s video output. pic.twitter.com/tEJ0bgjXV0

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 20, 2022

Newsnight looking like a dead man walking these days.

My LinkedIn has been going through absolute waves of "leaving the BBC" posts recently (mainly from the Throw The Proles Out of London thing and the product changes tbf). But all this is even before the promised 1000 redundancies kick in.

Every now and then the BBC simply loves to publish what reads like a breathless puff piece about a complete maniac from the US political hellscape

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61789443

She was a natural campaigner, but fundraising lagged, so Mr Dent asked her father for a personal donation.

Her father had inherited land on the historic Galena Plantation and used the sprawling 8,000-acre property to restore the family farm, turning it into a premier quail hunting destination. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and Mississippi governors Barbour and Phil Bryant, became frequent guests.

Visitors of Fitch Farms could elect to stay in the former home of Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, which Mr Fitch had bought and transported onto the property.

Ms Fitch has told local media of "special" childhood memories at her father's farm, riding horses and hunting quail.

Newsnight actually not bad tonight.

Thornberry’s on Peston tonight which helps I guess.

There’s some good soothing mick lynch content in the main thread fella

the BBC should let Paddy McGuinness host something, i'm sure he'd be popular

I'd love to know why the BBC pushed Gemma Collins so hard a while back, and why they stopped. I can understand the Daily Mail pushing her, because she generated a lot of free content, but she felt a poor fit for the BBC. Even on the level of "we have to make something trashy for the plebs". There was a frequently-trailed podcast, a bunch of awards show gigs, and puff-pieces such as this ("Gemma Collins is the New Meme Queen):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-41160646

It was odd given that she was a very limited talent who had become famous for a TV show on another channel. I only remember her for her teeth-clenched grin. Was her agent pally with someone at the BBC? Did she go to the same school as someone at the BBC? It was weird.

Did she go to the same school as someone at the BBC?

This seems highly unlikely.

The podcast was a bit of a fluke. There were not high hopes for it but it got some traction initially and attracted an audience the BBC struggles with. So it got pushed hard.