The quality of writing on the BBC News website

[sevendaughters]

Fucking hell that BBC article. I've complained as well for the first time.

I got a stalling reply from my complaint as they're "experiencing a higher than usual volume"

[bgmnts]

I got the same shite.

Embarrassing.

[idunnosomename]

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1326030048680423425?s=19

Tweet preserves original headline they changed

Not just women of colour, but normal women too!!!! Yas!

[Norton Canes]

Shit. Apparently an even more dangerous coronavirus mutation is on the way:

[The Cloud of Unknowing]

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1326030048680423425?s=19

Tweet preserves original headline they changed

Not just women of colour, but normal women too!!!! Yas!

Scone now. What did it say and what was it changed to?

[sevendaughters]

I got this email

Dear 7D

Thank you for getting in touch about our article 'The wedding DJ who wants to stop migrant boats' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54756575).

A number of readers got in touch to raise concerns with how we presented the people we interviewed for the story and in the belief that this was misleading or biased against migrants.

Although we made some amendments to the article on the day it was published, after review we took the decision to further re-edit it.

As a result we have changed some of the language used and provided additional context in several places, fully naming all of the activists involved and including more information about them.

We have also added a note of clarification at the bottom of the article, advising readers of these changes.

Thank you once again for getting in touch.

Kind regards,

BBC Complaints Team

[popcorn]

Clarification and update 9 November 2020: This piece has been re-edited; including adding more context in several places and further information about the activists involved.

Shite politics aside, it'd be nice if BBC writers understood semicolons too

[bgmnts]

Yup got the same response. Cheers beeb.

[idunnosomename]

Oof got kind regardsed. Might as well have told you to fuck off

[RDRR]

Got the same email back. If anything the several additions to the article make the version they originally chose to publish even more shocking. They didn't manage to address the fact that every person interviewed for the article is a racist anti-immigration extremist, but otherwise the changes are welcome...

In September he had a run-in with the authorities. He was arrested for allegedly joyriding with two other people in a boat that he says had been abandoned by migrants. He denies a charge of taking a conveyance without consent.

[touchingcloth]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/fish_finger_bhorta_58496

Meanwhile, warm the oil in a large frying pan (I use a wokshaped stir-fry pan)

If only there were a name for such a pan.

[Bazooka]

A British diplomat has been hailed as a hero after diving into a river in China to save a drowning student.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-54961075

Relations between China and the UK have been rapidly deteriorating over the past year, amid rows over Hong Kong, tech firm Huawei and the coronavirus.

Yet there's full praise online for Mr Ellison, with Chinese social media users calling him a "hero", a "role model" and someone who is "worthy of admiration" for saving the student, who media said fell "while taking pictures". He's being described as "uncle", a term almost never used to describe foreigners.

"You'd call such a person a knight in the UK; in China we call him a hero," one user on the popular Sina Weibo site says.

Again the BBC love to do this where they take a variable, in this case a British man in China, and then have to mention another story that uses the same key words, and create a false connection. A British man got praised not because he is British but because he jumped in to save the women in a country where swimming is a taboo and your fucked even if surrounded by hundreds of people.  People didn't think "oh I should praise him, but because of Hong Kong he is a piece of shit".

The BBC does the same thing continuously, I think every story about the USA mentions George Floyd being killed by a white policeman.

"A 14 year old boy in Dover has flown his homemade plane over the British Channel.

In 2001 two planes were used in the 9/11 attacks"

[idunnosomename]

laura k sticks her head between her legs, puts her mouth round her anus, and swallows a torrent of her own putrid yellowed shit

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1329196209693741063

[Leo2112]

laura k sticks her head between her legs, puts her mouth round her anus, and swallows a torrent of her own putrid yellowed shit

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1329196209693741063

There are just outright lies in her article https://twitter.com/jasebyjason/status/1329205236800626690

Not that it matters.  Making complaints to official bodies about this sort of thing is routinely ignored now.

[BlodwynPig]

So Corbyn has a Cult and Starmer has a Tribe?

Westminster journalists, the sibling you used to keep in the attic.

[BlodwynPig]

Get rid of Twitter and any social media that tries to take its place. Cesspit.

Starmer needs to resign.

Corbyn back in charge. Dissenters to be shot at dawn.

[Menu]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55042114

What a scoop!

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

Way off topic, but using this thread to complain about the assholes at BBC making their radio app functionally unusable outside the UK (and perhaps within). Assholes.

[idunnosomename]

Sounds is an absolute disaster on every level. Yet they push on with it. These cunts are run by a poll tax basically and they're running themselves into the ground

[Menu]

I don't really understand the concept. They're pretending their radio shows are podcasts for some reason. I mean, what difference does it make?

[BlodwynPig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55042114

What a scoop!

But, she added, the stars and crews "pulled out all the stops".

i.e. led to a worse second wave than if they hadn't bothered to make this trite crap. Although Who filmed before Coronavirus kicked off (although no doubt there will be a few nods and winks to the virus in the kids TV show).

Really looking forward to getting my shotgun out of the gun cabinet this Christmas and going for "a long walk".

[Fambo Number Mive]

Explaining the Spending Review like it was a menu:

https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1331501122083713024

[Icehaven]

I don't really understand the concept. They're pretending their radio shows are podcasts for some reason. I mean, what difference does it make?

I took me ages to realise that a podcast is just an audio program that's on the internet instead of broadcast on the radio. When I first heard the term I thought you needed special equipment to listen to them, like with ham radio.

[Norton Canes]

Explaining the Spending Review like it was a menu:

https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1331501122083713024

Ha. Just needs Little Cook.

[idunnosomename]

I took me ages to realise that a podcast is just an audio program that's on the internet instead of broadcast on the radio. When I first heard the term I thought you needed special equipment to listen to them, like with ham radio.

it was actually coined by a BBC journo in 2004 and the BBC were formative in pushing the format in the 00s, right down the branding as an album cover. I always thought it was a bad idea associating what is essentially just an mp3 file with a particular branded device for the experience you describe.

Irony is that podcasts have had a greater effect in their resurgance post iPod as more amateur formats which the BBC aped poorly with Sounds. Swing and a miss as usual

[Icehaven]

Irony is that podcasts have had a greater effect in their resurgance post iPod as more amateur formats which the BBC aped poorly with Sounds. Swing and a miss as usual

And now I've obviously only just realised the "pod" part of the word comes from Ipod...

[pcsjwgm]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/fish_finger_bhorta_58496

If only there were a name for such a pan.

I am so grateful to the political journalist Ash Sarkar for this new love in my life. Up until now, I had thought the fish finger found its greatest expression in a fish finger sandwich, which for all my expounding on the subject, I don't consider the stuff of recipes; the fish finger bhorta is a different matter entirely.

That's not a crossover I would have ever expected.

[touchingcloth]

That's not a crossover I would have ever expected.

Nigella and politics, or Nigella and journalism? Her dad is a former chancellor of the exchequer and she used to work in newspapers, so it's exactly the kind of crossover I find unsurprising. The only thing that would make it less surprising is if Ash gurns at the camera every time he puts fish fingers in his gob.

[Bernice]

Ash is a she, an avowed communist, and a commentator for pinko lefty comment merchants Novara media. Hence why her crossover with the posho daughter of Tory ex-chancellor is surprising.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Sarkar's bigged up Nigella on Novara before I think while talking about idols.