why the bbc is going down the pan

[Quartz]

Liked for astuteness.

 

[Dogsauce]

Kelvinm Mackenzie on Any Questions nearlty had me throw my tablet out the window. If i was Jack Monroe I'd have got up and bottle the cunt.

I always get the feeling that whilst people like Littlejohn seem to be in it for the attention and money, and that little smirk lets you know it's just like your childishly reactionary uncle trying to get a rise for kicks, MacKenzie is a bona fide cunt.

A couple of friends were sat out on their own in a weird two-seater front row on an episode of Question Time a couple of years ago, not six foot from MacKenzie's face. Their self-control in not spitting at him was impressive.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Apparently he's standing for election somewhere.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The interview with Natalie Bennet of the Green party on Friday's Newsnight was a complete hatchet job, the interviewer Yalda Hakim didn't let her finish a single sentence, asked the same meangingless question three times and generally came across as a sneering little gobshite. Hakim seems to have been brought in from the Australian desk at BBC world news, and her understanding of UK politics would certainly suggest that she's come from the other side of the planet.

 

[SpookyFrank]

There was a brilliant one on Radio 4's PM a couple of nights ago - the PPI mis-selling scandal was alright because the amounts being repaid are giving families windfalls and that may be enough to improve GDP.

Yay for those banking hucksters! It all turned out right in the end, no need to focus on the dodgy scam run on the British public.

So it's alright if I rob your house so long as I bring some of your stuff back many years later?

 

[Streatham_Mao]

So it's alright if I rob your house so long as I bring some of your stuff back many years later?

I do feel like we've passed from capitalism into something beyond satire.

 

[treelover]

Panorama just now, was entitled 'Behind the Balaclavas', but only covered the Pro Russian nationalists in Ukraine, nothing about the masked Right Sector, etc,

they also appeared to describe the Odessa massacre as part of the general level of violence, nothing about who perpetrated it.

 

[treelover]

Fwics, there is no coverage of the People's Assembly March today, despite it starting from outside the BBC HQ!

 

[teqniq]

Fwics, there is no coverage of the People's Assembly March today, despite it starting from outside the BBC HQ!

It seems to have been left to RT and Twitter users to report on and publicise it

http://rt.com/news/167532-uk-anti-austerity-march/#.U6WbbGfTcMR.twitter

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Fwics, there is no coverage of the People's Assembly March today, despite it starting from outside the BBC HQ!

Seriously the only mention I've seen of it was on the BBC travel news. It was pretty huge as well. But they never mention these things - won't be anywhere else either, and then there'll be more articles about voter apathy etc.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Fwics, there is no coverage of the People's Assembly March today, despite it starting from outside the BBC HQ!

See no evil, hear no evil, get elected to control a bbc that reports no evil.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Seriously the only mention I've seen of it was on the BBC travel news. It was pretty huge as well. But they never mention these things - won't be anywhere else either, and then there'll be more articles about voter apathy etc.

It's really pissing me off. I know it's all you expect from them. But, thousands, tens of thousands of people gathering and marching in central London, shutting down loads of important roads, ending up with a lengthy rally in Parliament Square with a very clear political point being expressed many times - and you hear nothing about any of it.

 

[treelover]

Especially when it all has an alternative viewpoint to what is basically a consensus, it isn't even that radical, its very very disconcerting.

 

[treelover]

Just rang BBC complaints, not the first time this, remember the NHS march in Manchester, this is old eastern bloc stuff...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Just rang BBC complaints, not the first time this, remember the NHS march in Manchester, this is old eastern bloc stuff...

I just sent a formal complaint. There's basically nothing at all on their entire site about it. I'll just get some bullshit back though.

 

[J Ed]

IMO the BBC establishment bias is getting more and more nakedly apparent. It will take a while for it to reach the crescendo of Andrew Marr during the Iraq War, but the coverage of the Ukraine conflict, the consequences of austerity, the current Sunni uprising in Iraq and now this really does expose an obvious establishment bias.

 

[chilango]

It's really pissing me off. I know it's all you expect from them. But, thousands, tens of thousands of people gathering and marching in central London, shutting down loads of important roads, ending up with a lengthy rally in Parliament Square with a very clear political point being expressed many times - and you hear nothing about any of it.

What sort of numbers attended?

 

[J Ed]

What sort of numbers attended?

Graunid says tens of thousands, RT thousands

 

[treelover]

One good thing, Brand has millions of twitter followers, they will want to surf the media to find out about his speech and find little, open a few eyes.

 

[Flanflinger]

What sort of numbers attended?

One man and his dog.

 

[J Ed]

One man and his dog.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

One man and his dog.

Well it wasn't was it. Tens of thousands of people were there. Sorry if that's a bit of a handicap to the usual Urban dismissive bullshit, but the fact that Owen Jones was there will no doubt reassure everyone that the whole thing was just proles doing their thing. Except we're not allowed to be superior or anything here so it was just the middle classes or some bollocks.

 

[treelover]

Lots of people there and that's near the end when a lot of the marchers have to leave, its stinks.

 

[treelover]

couple of lookers...

woman behind looks a bit jealous.

 

[treelover]

Even more people, BBC...

 

[chilango]

Well it wasn't was it. Tens of thousands of people were there. Sorry if that's a bit of a handicap to the usual Urban dismissive bullshit, but the fact that Owen Jones was there will no doubt reassure everyone that the whole thing was just proles doing their thing. Except we're not allowed to be superior or anything here so it was just the middle classes or some bollocks.

Ta. Just wanted a rough estimate of numbers. Was going to go to this but didn't fancy paying the £20odd for a train ticket

 

[treelover]

This is why the numbers for these events is not higher, train travel is now so expensive its prohibits many people from going, lets hope the unions put on free trains for the October TUC protest, which btw, they (the TUC) are trying to make rather exclusive.

 

[chilango]

Worse, my union - the NUT, seemed pretty prominent in this yet no contact from them locally about it.

Oh well.

Not a huge deal, but not especially encouraging.

 

[Flanflinger]

couple of lookers...

woman behind looks a bit jealous.

Is he still making childish prank phonecalls these days ? Or does he reserve his time for joining celebrity bandwagons.

 

[treelover]

Worse, my union - the NUT, seemed pretty prominent in this yet no contact from them locally about it.

Oh well.

Not a huge deal, but not especially encouraging.

but surely it is a big deal?, the big protest in Europe, France, Spain, etc are because the unions etc get behind them.