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BBC Watch: election bias special.

Started by Absorb the anus burn, October 31, 2019, 06:22:34 PM

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BlodwynPig


imitationleather

Not watched BBC News for a month. Life is better this way.

Spoon of Ploff

Jesus Christ. It would almost be worth signing up for a TV license just so I could cancel it again.

NoSleep

Quote from: Spoon of Ploff on January 07, 2020, 03:23:12 PM
Jesus Christ. It would almost be worth signing up for a TV license just so I could cancel it again.

Just take out a subscription for Tribune or support Double Down News, Novara Media, The Canary, Morning Star, etc. We need a thread to list outlets worthy of our support (probably already said that in here before but still true).

Durance Vile

Quote from: filth gabs on January 07, 2020, 02:49:14 PM
He cant even get the white stripes tune right

It's definitely Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad he's singing there.

Dex Sawash

Quote from: NoSleep on January 07, 2020, 03:38:40 PM
Just take out a subscription for Tribune or support Double Down News, Novara Media, The Canary, Morning Star, etc. We need a thread to list outlets worthy of our support (probably already said that in here before but still true).

Consortium News

pancreas


Sony Walkman Prophecies

Quote from: solidified gruel merchant on January 01, 2020, 11:42:14 PM
To be honest having also spent time trying to make sense of it, people like Baddiel and even Iannucci and Morris himself coming out as carping centrists doesn't disappoint or surprise me as much as the lack of any real support from the likes of Stewart Lee, who has always worn his socialist credentials on his sleeve.
To be fair I may have missed something and I'd be very happy to be corrected but you'd have thought that this clearly intelligent, thoughtful man who rails against cuts to public services and people not paying taxes, and who understands more than anyone how the media operates (Jerry Springer, Richard Hammond joke etc) would maybe use his position, the privilege of which causes him so much anxiety and embarrassment, to shout fucking big and loud and use his clever words to tear shreds in all the lies and smears and promote this once in a lifetime chance. That disappoints me more.

Lee did a podcast recently (forget the name) where he said the liberal consensus had shifted, and needed to go away and rethink his position. To be fair, I think he's been out of tune, not only with the public, but his audience, for a good while now - a rethinking of his position is long overdue.

KennyMonster

Quote from: pancreas on January 07, 2020, 04:48:28 PM
pancreas mentions the lrb

That woman who's trying to become Labour leader?

Ferris

Quote from: pancreas on January 07, 2020, 04:48:28 PM
pancreas mentions the lrb

Once tried to light a barbecue with an old copy of the LRB. Complete disaster. Never bought it again to teach them a lesson.

Top tip for BBQ fans: old copies of the grauniad burn very well.

ZoyzaSorris

Quote from: imitationleather on January 07, 2020, 03:17:51 PM
Not watched BBC News for a month. Life is better this way.

Ive started suspending myself by my ballbag from a basement meathook during the times I would normally consume BBC News-based products and it's had a massively positive impact on my sense of well-being.

ZoyzaSorris

Quote from: Sony Walkman Prophecies on January 07, 2020, 05:24:05 PM
Lee did a podcast recently (forget the name) where he said the liberal consensus had shifted, and needed to go away and rethink his position. To be fair, I think he's been out of tune, not only with the public, but his audience, for a good while now - a rethinking of his position is long overdue.

You getting in grave is long overdue.

Replies From View

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on January 07, 2020, 06:50:30 PM
Once tried to light a barbecue with an old copy of the LRB. Complete disaster. Never bought it again to teach them a lesson.

Top tip for BBQ fans: old copies of the grauniad burn very well.

What is it about the aging process of Grauniads that heightens their flammability credentials?

NoSleep

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on January 07, 2020, 06:50:30 PMTop tip for BBQ fans: old copies of the grauniad burn very well.

Made excellent TP as well. When it was vaguely worth buying.

I've been listening to this as a replacement for radio 4:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0LxtrLizkrU

It's much less annoying, I wish I'd discovered it sooner.

Fambo Number Mive

Jeremy Bowen has parped this out regarding the US base attack:

QuoteAs far as we know there aren't causalities. If that continues to be the case, Donald Trump's advisers might be able to say: "This is a win for the United States, Mr President."

He might be able to sit back and say, "I've made another great decision" - and leave it at that for the time being.

I have to emphasise, though, that the wider crisis, conflict, dangers between Iran and the United States very much continue.

Even if this is the end of this particular crisis for now, the real fundamental problems that are at the root of it are very much still there.

What about the people killed in the stampede and on the aircraft Jeremy?





BlodwynPig

Bowen grabs his khakis from the laundry basket and yells for his wife to wash them

"Lock and load, babbbbby"

greenman

Quote from: filth gabs on January 07, 2020, 02:49:14 PM
BBC journo is having a totally normal one.

https://mobile.twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1214546199799308288

He cant even get the white stripes tune right

I do tend to think though that a lot of the weakness of the establishment tends to be hubris, especially given that nepotism often means those involved aren't actually very good at their jobs. Its at the moment of gloating triumph were a lot of the time weakness is greatest, post Ed the path was sposed to be for Labour to shift further to the right, in 2017 Corbyn was sposed to be crushed, etc.

Something like this has probably helped RLB moreso than anything else highlighting her as Corbyn's true successor simply by the level of vemon aimed at her.

pancreas

I do think that this clip shows that people who are tone deaf should not attempt to sing. He manages to finish, not with a minor second, but a perfect fourth. He has effectively re-written the song because he does not understand the very basic musical point it is making.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: pancreas on January 08, 2020, 10:30:01 AM
I do think that this clip shows that people who are tone deaf should not attempt to sing. He manages to finish, not with a minor second, but a perfect fourth. He has effectively re-written the song because he does not understand the very basic musical point it is making.

According to his biog he is a internationally recognised organ grinder... or monkey, can't remember which

Quote

https://politicsandinsights.org/tag/marcus-moore/

I stumbled upon this the other day, it's from 2018 but still relevant and quite interesting. I can't remember if it's cropped up on here before (apologies if so).

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: Quote on January 15, 2020, 01:58:49 PM
https://politicsandinsights.org/tag/marcus-moore/

I stumbled upon this the other day, it's from 2018 but still relevant and quite interesting. I can't remember if it's cropped up on here before (apologies if so).

Nice one. Not seen it before. Very interesting.

Leo2112

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/24/bbc-newsnight-and-today-show-face-cuts-as-part-of-savings-drive

QuoteBBC Newsnight and Today show face cuts as part of savings drive

Flagship BBC news shows including Newsnight and Radio 4's Today are to be subjected to the same cuts that have led to plans to axe Victoria Derbyshire's BBC2 show.

Next week the corporation will announce it is looking for cost savings of about £40m in its news division, a move that will hit even key shows such as Radio 4's The World At One.

It is understood the efficiencies being planned include Newsnight being asked to make fewer films. The late night BBC Two show is renowned for its agenda-setting coverage, last year broadcasting Emily Maitlis' exclusive interview with Prince Andrew.

BBC Radio will be expected to share resources and material across its bulletins on different stations. At present, they have bespoke news roundups.

More presenters will also be asked to work across programmes and channels.

The government should be pretty happy with this.  Cutting the budgets to the bone means far less scope for BBC News outlets to conduct their own investigative journalism.  'Sharing resources and material' will make for blander, simpler analysis across all its news platforms.  It will still be broadcasting with the pretence of being impartial but with the government boot even more firmly on its neck.  I'd even be surprised if the government would want to press ahead with any abolition of the license fee when it has successfully engineered the diminution of a broadcaster which a lot of the country still turn to for their news.

idunnosomename

god knows why today is THREE HOURS. i mean they broadcast report items in the first hour that hardly anyone will hear. unlike on TV when they will reshow packages throughout the day.

sarah sands will throw in the towel soon and go be master/warden/whatever the fuck of an oxbridge college. in fact see a lot of other executive people jumping ship soon as they see this flagship of the British establishment get broadsided, boarded and scuttled (keeping up with the metaphor there)

colacentral

They should be looking to cut salaries before anything else. There is no reason for Jeremy Vine to ever be earning 300k a year. He shouldn't even be on TV.


Fambo Number Mive

Why are so many of the cuts being made at the BBC related to news? Why not cut spending on things like Strictly Come Dancing. If dancing is so interesting, why do they need to spend so much money on extravegent costumes and scenery? And why do they need four judges? Just have two.

News  and journalism should be the last thing that is cut.

DeadJefferson

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on January 26, 2020, 02:14:45 PM
Why are so many of the cuts being made at the BBC related to news? Why not cut spending on things like Strictly Come Dancing. If dancing is so interesting, why do they need to spend so much money on extravegent costumes and scenery? And why do they need four judges? Just have two.

News  and journalism should be the last thing that is cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome

#628
The BBC really are working (badly) as a PR company for the royal family. The amount they are doing to promote William and Kate has an  astonishing ratio, especially mitigating the Andrew stories and Harry. I wonder how far we have to look to see knighthoods and establishment ties to certain high ups that control this at the bbc. Fuck Britain.

idunnosomename

BBC still fuelling the angry white man columnist culture war with some tasty logs of complete shit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999