why the bbc is going down the pan

[frogwoman]

the beeb never reports on it. iirc Ed Milliband went last year and even that didn't get a beeb report that I can remember.

There was a write up in the Morning Star obvs


/dc

 

[treelover]

BBC Breakfast's Stephanie McGovern: I was seen as 'too common for telly'

Business presenter says she received put-downs from some colleagues and abuse from viewers due to her Teesside accent

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jul/16/bbc-breakfast-stephanie-mcgovern

McGovern complained that she regularly received abuse from viewers about her accent and that one BBC manager told her: "I didn't realise people like you were clever."

Ffs, now the BBC's attitude to benefit claimants, etc becomes a little clearer.

 

[el-ahrairah]

fucksake.

 

[_angel_]

McGovern complained that she regularly received abuse from viewers about her accent and that one BBC manager told her: "I didn't realise people like you were clever."

This explains so much of the dumbing down of programming.

 

[CNT36]

The coverage of Shale gas has been apalling. The BBC line seems to be that its not great to live next to it but its going to save us all. Come on America and come on George get the subsidies flowing.

 

[el-ahrairah]

the world waits. does it, does it really?

 

[DotCommunist]

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the world waits. does it, does it really?

all those people burying their dead and rebuilding shattered lives in that chinese earthquake zone are waiting with bated breath

 

[el-ahrairah]

a south sudanese family, waiting for food aid news of the royal baby.

 

[frogwoman]

I'm sure people in Syria are sitting on the edge of their destroyed seats

 

[el-ahrairah]

the bbc is eating itself.

 

[frogwoman]

"world celebrates royal birth"

 

[bi0boy]

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the world waits. does it, does it really?

Yes.

Look at this photo feature - In pictures: World celebrates royal birth

So that's four pictures of inanimate objects and two pictures of a few people British people in mournful huddles. No pictures of anyone celebrating anything.

 

[el-ahrairah]

also, what department is more important, BBC News, or BBC World News? I assume BBC News is a subset of BBC World News, but the lack of geographical indicator in BBC News suggests simply that it contains all the news there is. But surely BBC World News also contains all the news there is, seeing as we're currently restricted to living on one planet. Perhaps BBC News actually includes an Interplanetary News Department and is therefore the bigger, more important one.

I just don't know anymore care.

 

[stavros]

Newsnight last night had two royalists to one republican last night, plus one perplexed American saying it was the only interesting thing about the UK.

 

[bi0boy]

First world problems:

"Now I'm wondering if I made a mistake by not getting the word out sooner. I fear the royal couple will choose for their new son the same name my husband and I have selected for ours - a name that has to me felt so special and private."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23425905

 

[bi0boy]

"People get a taxi from one place to another"

...fails to mention: they didn't give a tip

 

[shagnasty]

Yes.

Look at this photo feature - In pictures: World celebrates royal birth

So that's four pictures of inanimate objects and two pictures of a few people British people in mournful huddles. No pictures of anyone celebrating anything.

In the picture of the London Eye you can see lightning ,so even gods celebrating

 

[farmerbarleymow]

First world problems:

"Now I'm wondering if I made a mistake by not getting the word out sooner. I fear the royal couple will choose for their new son the same name my husband and I have selected for ours - a name that has to me felt so special and private."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23425905

For fucks sake!

I know the website is going to shit, but have they really sunk this low. Just who do they thinks cares about the name of some journo's baby? A waste of pixels.

 

[treelover]

BBC programme on welfare reforms broke impartiality and accuracy rules

The Future of the Welfare State, presented by John Humphrys, failed to back up controversial views with statistics, says trust

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/30/bbc-welfare-reforms-impartiality-john-humphrys

this is very significant, we should all contact the BBC to ask them how they are going to address benefit issues in the future.

 

[elbows]

The BBC has apologised after an image of Prince William with an obscene doodle drawn on his head was shown on BBC Breakfast.
It was spotted by viewers who then tweeted a freeze frame of the image.
A statement from the BBC said the image was shown "fleetingly" within a comedy promotional video.
"We failed to spot the offending material within it. We apologise for this." it said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23534961
I note that earlier on the 'most popular' table on their site had the story at number 1 and titled 'BBC apologises for penis doodle' but they have now changed it to 'BBC apologises for William doodle'.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

someone suggested a new thread on this and i thought i'd start one, post your examples of bbc bullshit here ...

How about putting up mockups of a dead child's body?

I don't think the National Enquirer even sinks that low.

 

[emanymton]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23534961
I note that earlier on the 'most popular' table on their site had the story at number 1 and titled 'BBC apologises for penis doodle' but they have now changed it to 'BBC apologises for William doodle'.

That is probably the best bit of TV on the BBC for years.

 

[weepiper]

Police say 26 officers were injured during violence in Belfast city centre on Friday night linked to a republican parade.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23622949

The violence was coming from the loyalist protestors, not the republican paraders. You'd never know that by the headline on the main page though.

 

[bi0boy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23622949

The violence was coming from the loyalist protestors, not the republican paraders. You'd never know that by the headline on the main page though.

They must have just changed it:

26 police officers injured during Belfast parade protests
Twenty-six police officers are injured during loyalist protests in Belfast city centre, as demonstrations are held against a republican parade

 

[weepiper]

They must have just changed it:

26 police officers injured during Belfast parade protests
Twenty-six police officers are injured during loyalist protests in Belfast city centre, as demonstrations are held against a republican parade

oh yeah, so they have. Someone on twitter screenshotted it - my quote was from the front page but they've changed that too

 

[bi0boy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23614142

"MBA (Masters of Business Arts)university course fees"

Sorry what? MBA stands for Master of Business Administration. I thought even their interns should know this.

 

[ViolentPanda]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23614142

"MBA (Masters of Business Arts)university course fees"

Sorry what? MBA stands for Master of Business Administration. I thought even their interns should know this.

Well, they tell us it stands for "Master of Business Administration", but in my experience it actually stands for Management is Bloody Awful, as most of the MBAs I've met had the man-management skills of a freeze-dried shrimp.

 

[CNT36]

Paddy O'Connell was presenting a debate at lunch time on fracking. Most of the debates are narrowly framed but this one was particularly bad. I was only half listening for most of it but I heard the host phrase the question along the lines of "Do you think Quadrilla should continue their work of given into the protestors?" The host (who only yesterday was talking about his neutrality) later on suggested that local people weren't worried about the fracking but the protests and that's why they wanted it to stop. He then held a discussion between a Professor of geo something and a protestor. I don't think he could of said "professor" anymore often or sounded more dismissive of the protestor.

 

[CNT36]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23780581?ocid=socialflow_twitter_bbcworld

Susan Manning liked vodka - it was easier to hide. "If you put vodka in certain drinks, you can't really smell it," said her daughter, Casey Major, in a courtroom in Fort Meade, Maryland, last week.
She also liked rum and beer - and, really, whatever was in the house.
When she got pregnant for the second time, friends and family had mixed feelings. One relative, Debra Van Alstyne, testifying in court, said: "At first I said, 'Oh great.' Then I thought, 'Oh no.'"
At the time, Major was 11. Sitting in the witness stand, Major, now 36 and a homemaker who lives in Oklahoma City, counted on her fingers - adding up the weeks that her mother was pregnant - and drinking. She put her hands in her lap.
"At least through the first trimester," she said. Her brother weighed about 6lb (2.7kg) when he was born.


Pte First Class Bradley Manning, 25, showed signs of foetal alcohol syndrome, said Capt David Moulton, a clinical psychiatrist, who testified in court that day.
Moulton described Manning's facial features that characterised the syndrome, such as his smooth, thin upper lip, and looked over at him in the courtroom.
Manning has been found guilty of 20 charges, including multiple counts of espionage, theft of government data and computer fraud. He will be demoted to E1, a lower rank of private and the lowest rank in the military.
On Tuesday he was sentenced to 35 years, significantly less than the 90 that he could have spent in prison.

 

[butchersapron]

Stephanie Flanders, daughter of actors, St Paul's Girls graduate, chief of BBC economic reporting was close friends with both Ed Miliband and Ed Balls at university.

...and now she moves to what has been described as her spiritual home - JP Morgan.