Author Topic: The quality of writing on the BBC News website (Read 37058 times)

touchingcloth · « **Reply #570 on:** December 19, 2020, 09:53:01 PM »

Quote from: Buelligan on December 19, 2020, 09:36:12 PM

Is it too late to say how much I hate The Cunt Alan Sugar?

_{Appalling Cunt}

That’s Lord Cunt to you, thank you.

Buelligan · « **Reply #571 on:** December 19, 2020, 10:11:25 PM »

I think you'll find that's Keith.

Or is it Adonis? Or Mandy?

BlodwynPig · « **Reply #572 on:** December 19, 2020, 10:13:38 PM »

Who is the French equivalent of Alain Sucre?

Buelligan · « **Reply #573 on:** December 19, 2020, 10:14:54 PM »

I'm afraid we don't have anyone quite like that.

idunnosomename · « **Reply #574 on:** December 20, 2020, 12:06:42 AM »

Sir Cnut Starmer

Twonty Gostelow · « **Reply #575 on:** December 20, 2020, 01:30:49 AM »

Quote from: Buelligan on December 19, 2020, 09:36:12 PM

Diana Coupland will be taking all of that down the minute she gets home.

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #576 on:** December 22, 2020, 10:52:45 AM »

"Climate change: Law used as stick to beat government"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55368922

Yes, how dare ordinary people use the law against the establishment.

Cuellar · « **Reply #577 on:** December 22, 2020, 10:55:03 AM »

Haha christ alive

Quote

Environmentalists are using the law to hound the government to force infrastructure plans into line with its climate change commitments.

HOUND

FORCE

the government to do what it committed to doing.

Paul Calf · « **Reply #578 on:** December 22, 2020, 11:11:56 AM »

Quote from: BlodwynPig on December 19, 2020, 10:13:38 PM

Who is the French equivalent of Alain Sucre?

Emmanuel Macron.

frajer · « **Reply #579 on:** December 22, 2020, 11:16:09 AM »

Fuck me. I would say that's a new low for the BBC but it's actually bang on trend. Ministry of Truth dickheads.

Just donated a few quid to the Good Law Project as that article's pissed me off. Can someone let Sunak know I'm not just swimming about in my "riches" like Scrooge McDuck, ta.

Kankurette · « **Reply #580 on:** December 22, 2020, 01:15:37 PM »

Quote from: Buelligan on December 19, 2020, 09:36:12 PM

Is it too late to say how much I hate The Cunt Alan Sugar?

_{Appalling Cunt}

Never.

He launched Katie Hopkins on the world, that's bad enough.

Dex Sawash · « **Reply #581 on:** December 26, 2020, 12:36:08 AM »

I bet she fucking does, the DOB

BlodwynPig · « **Reply #582 on:** December 26, 2020, 09:35:39 AM »

The State Broadcaster filling your mind with twee desolation

The State Broadcaster tearing away the last struts of your sanity

The State Broadcaster homogenising British life into beige, faintly imperialist, mulch

BlodwynPig · « **Reply #583 on:** December 26, 2020, 09:37:57 AM »

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EOLAN · « **Reply #584 on:** December 26, 2020, 02:03:42 PM »

On their ticker tape page:

15,526 COVID Tests carried out in Dover and only 35 positive.

Well not tested because displaying symptoms and if extrapolate that to full population of UK it would be around 150,000 postive cases which would be extremely high for a random population.

So don't know why they use the word ONLY in headline.

Fambo Number Mive · « **Reply #585 on:** December 29, 2020, 11:54:04 AM »

Not strictly BBC News website related, but another BBC employee writing in a right wing paper complaining things are not right wing enough:

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1343879161883078656

I thought they were meant to show impartiality.

idunnosomename · « **Reply #586 on:** December 29, 2020, 01:02:02 PM »

the piece isn't really about that, I doubt he wrote the header. it's just Justin Webb (who's always been an america correspondent) saying it's time to get sensible now we have a sensible man

https://archive.md/MT527

it's very BBC centrist. it's also horseshit

Twonty Gostelow · « **Reply #587 on:** January 08, 2021, 04:38:24 PM »

Another tin-eared headline.

notjosh · « **Reply #588 on:** January 08, 2021, 04:58:24 PM »

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on December 22, 2020, 10:52:45 AM

"Climate change: Law used as stick to beat government"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55368922

Yes, how dare ordinary people use the law against the establishment.

This is absolutely staggering. You can feel that opening sentence straining under the extent to which it's been contorted to make the poor law-breaking government the victim in all this. Don't know anything about the journalist but it does have the feel of being imposed on an otherwise straightforward article by an insane editor.

Like frajer, I have been subscribed to the Good Law Project for a while and if anyone's got a few spare quid (perhaps your lapsed Labour membership fee?) that could be a good place to put it. They have spent the last year doing their best to provide the country with an actual, forensic opposition.

evilcommiedictator · « **Reply #589 on:** January 12, 2021, 12:17:47 AM »

The BBC have the best knowledge of the UK

idunnosomename · « **Reply #590 on:** January 12, 2021, 12:41:41 AM »

the middle of the bar is the centre rather than the covid but still, Surrey?

well no actually Manchester isn't there. still someone fucked up on a render

jenna appleseed · « **Reply #591 on:** January 12, 2021, 08:30:31 PM »

Why is part of a dalek spray painting the map red?

MrMrs · « **Reply #592 on:** January 12, 2021, 09:27:02 PM »

such a stupid graphic, even if it were accurate

JamesTC · « **Reply #593 on:** January 12, 2021, 10:16:28 PM »

Didn't see the rest of the needle. Thought they were pretending that England was a giant needle.

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Author Topic: The quality of writing on the BBC News website (Read 37058 times)