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The Director General has been spouting about the future.

"I want the BBC of the future to have a much closer relationship with audiences," he said, in a speech delivered in the BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House, the corporation's central London headquarters. "We should be treating them like owners not just as licence fee payers. People should not be saying 'the BBC', but 'my BBC', 'our BBC'."
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/08/tony-hall-bbc-digital

As you would probably expect, I see no meaningful substance to this ambition at all.
 
frogwoman said:
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Is that dot communist in the picture?
 
BBC cuts survey – A poor poll poorly reported

The problem is that the BBC’s coverage highlights the findings that the poll has not measured well – which on the whole are good for the government – and almost completely ignored the more robust results, which are bad for the government.

The web coverage of the poll (by Mark Easton, who I should say I have always respected) starts by saying:

Many people in Britain think the quality of public services overall have been maintained or improved in the past five years despite government cuts, a poll for the BBC suggests.

The broadcast coverage that I heard had a pretty similar top line. This is no doubt what so pleased the Prime Minister.

Yet:

40 per cent think services have got worse compared to 15 per cent who think they have got better
63 per cent say they are worried about cuts made to many public services (20 per cent disagree)
52 per cent are angry at cuts made to many public services (27 per cent disagree)
47 per cent think cuts to welfare and benefits have gone too far (37 per cent disagree)
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Turned on radio last night ( tuned to radio 4 as smooth 70s seems to have gone off air) grayston perry was just finishing his Reith lecture and informing his simperingly luvvie audience how though his pots now sell for thousands he once made pots which were far more affordable " and sold for the equivalent of a weeks dole money".
My digital radio needs to be wrapped in bubble rap if it is to survive this sort of thing.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...-shelves-Panorama-expose-of-Comic-Relief.html

The documentary is understood to examine how the charity allegedly invested £150 million of its funds for up to eight years, before handing the money to the causes for which it had been raised.

Some of the money was allegedly invested in tobacco firms and an arms company.

By the end of last year, the charity was allegedly sitting on £261million in a mixture of shares, bonds and cash.

The six-month investigation also explores how staffing costs at Comic Relief have allegedly almost doubled from £7.1million a year in 2008 to £13.5 million by 2012.

The programme was scheduled to air later this month but is reported to have been postponed.
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Main headline:

Philippines devastation is 'bedlam'

The Philippine Red Cross says the devastating Typhoon Haiyan has created "absolute bedlam" as rescuers try to reach survivors.


Really? It's bedlam over there is it?

Reminds me of this:

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Protest against the BBC at Media City Salford, just look at that building, we paid for it,

and the banners for The Voice' looks sinister.
 
BBC news "sales of card board boxes are a good indicator of the state of economy and this cardboard factory is busy" :facepalm:
 
It's Rachel Reeves vs Nick Ferrari on Question Time tonight. I dont' know whether to watch it or have a wank and go to bed.
 
"Drummer Rigby" has been changed overnight to "Fusilier Rigby" What's all that about then?
 
No coverage nor discussion of the foodbank debate on Wednesday. No mention on Any Questions - quelle surprise!
 
savoloysam said:
"Drummer Rigby" has been changed overnight to "Fusilier Rigby" What's all that about then?
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Difference between rank (fusilier - old designation for "rifleman" that the fusilier regts kept for tradition's sake), and designation (drummer). Expecting the meeja to know this stuff, when most of them haven't got a clue about the military, is a bit like expecting them to be self-aware enough to realise what a bunch of cunts they are!
 
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