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The quality of writing on the BBC News website

Started by Noonling, July 24, 2019, 07:37:42 AM

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BlodwynPig


Johnny Yesno

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56643677

QuoteThe four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.

For example, gravity makes objects fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they are glued to the floor.

bgmnts

QuoteMy Spidey sense is tingling and telling me that this is going to be real.


Doesnt sound very scientific!

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: bgmnts on April 08, 2021, 08:11:30 PM

Doesnt sound very scientific!

He knows, though doesn't he? He's been using this fifth force for some time now.

bgmnts

Oh yeah I was just being silly.

I liked the idea of turning physics on its head as well. Ha!

I wonder how these Muons will be adopted by the conspiratorial community like the Flat Earthers and stuff.

Captain Z

I see they got the quarterly advert for Boohoo/Asos in today as well.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: bgmnts on April 08, 2021, 08:11:30 PM

Doesnt sound very scientific!

QuoteElsewhere on the BBC
What happens when your nudes are stolen?

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: bgmnts on April 08, 2021, 08:21:50 PM
Oh yeah I was just being silly.

Oh, I wasn't being silly. I reckon Spidey sense is the fifth force and he's just waiting for the rest of the scientific community to catch up...

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: BlodwynPig on April 08, 2021, 08:48:57 PM
Elsewhere on the BBC
What happens when your nudes are stolen?

Peter, you've lost the nudes!

touchingcloth

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56728038

QuoteThe latest move is part of a wider crackdown by China to reign in the country's fast-growing tech platforms.

In fairness, I can't tell if it's a typo or a deliberate bit of satire. But it's the BBC site so let's not be charitable.

buttgammon

Quote from: touchingcloth on April 13, 2021, 08:18:50 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56728038

In fairness, I can't tell if it's a typo or a deliberate bit of satire. But it's the BBC site so let's not be charitable.

More of a reflection of what's really on their mind.

idunnosomename

Quote from: Johnny Yesno on April 08, 2021, 08:08:05 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56643677
thing is, thats not just patronising, it's not even accurate. Do objects that aren't heavy just float away from floors? When you raise a heavy object does it pull up part of the floor?

touchingcloth

Quote from: idunnosomename on April 13, 2021, 08:59:43 AM
thing is, thats not just patronising, it's not even accurate. Do objects that aren't heavy just float away from floors? When you raise a heavy object does it pull up part of the floor?

The other thing is, they seem to reserve this sort of patronising handholding for the most blindingly obvious of subjects, and miss it when something would actually benefit from it.

E.g. here:

Quote
On Wednesday Mrs Foster told the High Court in Belfast it had been a "very humiliating" time for her. Judgement has been reserved in the case.

I feel like I can't be alone in thinking that legalese like "judgement has been reserved", "remanded in custody", "the coroner recorded a narrative verdict" would benefit from explanations rather than just glibly written into articles. Or am I the Cunt?

idunnosomename

well, the thing is, being patronising is a lot easier than being helpful. if you don't have to know anything more than the majority of your readership.

touchingcloth

Educate, inform, entertain. None for three.

idunnosomename

also explaining legal proceedings properly just makes them more complicated. they (and all the press really) are terrible for just assuming people understand things like sentencing and appeals. but they do it for snappy headline and let people or tabloid pundits fill in the gaps. 20 years! THATS NOT LONG ENOUGH. SHOULD BE FOR EVER!!

touchingcloth

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56768217

Quote
Chicago police have released footage of the moment one of its officers shot dead a 13-year-boy in a dark alley.

Bodycam video shows the officer shouting "Drop it" before shooting Adam Toledo once in the chest on 29 March.

The boy does not appear to be holding a weapon in the split second he was shot, but video shows officers discovering a handgun near the spot where he fell.

The city mayor appealed for calm before the release of the footage as some businesses boarded up their windows.

The incident follows the fatal police shooting on 11 April of Daunte Wright by an officer in a Minneapolis suburb.

BlodwynPig


touchingcloth

Quote from: BlodwynPig on April 16, 2021, 07:57:51 AM
sixth form temp journalists ahoy! "in the split second he was shot"

That's fair enough. It lets you know the police were being particularly violent by choosing not to use slow bullets.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: touchingcloth on April 16, 2021, 08:27:16 AM
That's fair enough. It lets you know the police were being particularly violent by choosing not to use slow bullets.

It was more the fact he didn't "appear" to have a gun in that split second. BBC allowing for doubt, sowing the seed of discord. Playing both sides.

"We've looked at the evidence and this is what you should think, plebs"

touchingcloth

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56788998

Quote
Brothers talk

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56762822

QuoteOn the seat of the duke's favourite driving carriage, which was given a special role in the proceedings, were laid his cap, whip and brown driving gloves.

The carriage, accompanied by some of his grooms and pulled by his two trusty black Fell ponies, Balmoral Nevis and Notlaw Storm, stood in the Quadrangle as the procession passed by.

The Duke of Edinburgh's favourite driving carriage

It was a nod to Prince Philip's love of the fast-paced sport, which he took up when he turned 50 and continued to enjoy non-competitively in his 90s.

What sport? Carriage driving? That's a job.

Buelligan

Hardeep Matharu talks about the BBC's  curious lack of interest in or coverage of, the Arcuri affair for Double Down - Sex, Money, Boris Johnson & The Curious Case of Jennifer Arcuri.

RDRR



Top story. I find this maddening. Even if the sentence was written legibly it doesn't fucking mean anything devoid of any context, between two completely unrelated sentences. Have they offered an explanation for the new-sentence-new-paragraph format?

Is it because the ADHD

touchingcloth

In their live coverage of the Chauvin trial - it's just been announced that he's guilty on all counts, by the way - the next post they made after the one reporting the verdict was titled "America's most famous exoneree shares his thoughts" on a post copying a tweet from OJ Simpson. What the fuck.


touchingcloth

Their next post was "Thoughts on Savile by Commonwealth's most famous non-nonce, Harris".


idunnosomename

lol £100. He had a woman spill amniotic fluid all over his car, he didn't get top marks in his French GCSE

Icehaven

Quote"He grasped the emergency. He didn't potter around or drive slowly. He did exactly what we needed him to do."

That £100 Uber have awarded him might just about cover the speeding ticket then.

Echo Valley 2-6809

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56837002

QuoteMeteor showers, or shooting stars, are caused when pieces of debris, known as meteorites, enter Earth's atmosphere.
Nope.