Pre-announcements

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Today the BBC are reporting what Ed Miliband will say in his speech, down to the precise phrasing, before he says it. If this wasn't annoying enough, they are also trailing what the Tory response to it is going to be, forcing everyone watching and reading to live through it twice.

When did this start happening, and if the news have already reported what youre going to say, what's the need to even pissing say it?

[BlodwynPig]

In a groundbreaking new thread Shoulders?-Stomach! is expected to say "Today the BBC are reporting what Ed Miliband will say in his speech, down to the precise phrasing, before he says it. If this wasn't annoying enough, they are also trailing what the Tory response to it is going to be, forcing everyone watching and reading to live through it twice.

When did this start happening, and if the news have already reported what youre going to say, what's the need to even pissing say it?"

In response to this post, BlodwynPig will post a fictious quote attributed to the BBC highlighting Shoulders' post in a rather stale meta-joke kind of way.

[ziggy starbucks]

I wish they would pre-announce their pre-announcements so I would have more time to pre-announce my own pre-announced response. Which in this case would be a boring and irrelevant photoshopped image of Ed Milliband dressed as a lollipop man standing in the middle of the M6.

[chand]

When did this start happening, and if the news have already reported what youre going to say, what's the need to even pissing say it?

It's been going on for a few years at least, I often wonder if there's any point having them actually make the speech now.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

That's decided then- all news outlets and journalists who parrot cynical pre-released info leaked from political parties to be shot at dawn, and their remains fed to Kate Middleton, who let's face it is a growing girl.

[Icehaven]

I got a message from Wikipedia today saying my edit to Ed Miliband's about how he's easily turn on and offable had been deleted as ''it wasn't constructive''. Still, it was there for about 3 weeks.