why the bbc is going down the pan

[extra dry]

Have you heard how much the Men are paid at the BBC?

Partridge was bang on BBC gravy train and then some. Evans 2.2 million...

 

[bi0boy]

Headline editor been reading too much Philip K Dick?

 

[hash tag]

Here is the boobs at ten......BBC worker spotted watching nude clip in background of News at Ten

 

[bestkeptsecret]

Have you heard how much the Men are paid at the BBC?

Partridge was bang on BBC gravy train and then some. Evans 2.2 million...

The published list was very misleading, it didn't include amounts paid via production companies. Where was Matt Leblanc for example - you really think with his background he isn't one of the top BBC earners?

 

[mwgdrwg]

Newsnight getting a well known hater of the language to argue against funding for Welsh. No actual speakers there to defend it. Cunts.

 

[bestkeptsecret]

Newsnight getting a well known hater of the language to argue against funding for Welsh. No actual speakers there to defend it. Cunts.

They probably couldn't find one

 

[JimW]

Newsnight getting a well known hater of the language to argue against funding for Welsh. No actual speakers there to defend it. Cunts.

Caught that, some blogger there to defend it chuckling along about knowing only a few words, bizarre.

 

[teqniq]

 

[mwgdrwg]

They probably couldn't find one

Fuck off

 

[rekil]

Antifa: Left-wing militants on the rise - BBC News

"Antifa's roots go back almost as far as Nazis"

"Unlike the mainstream left, they do not seek to gain power through traditional channels - winning elections and passing bills into law."

"Much like the far-right, chapters of Antifa are loosely connected and highly secretive, and organise mostly on message boards such as Reddit and over social networks like Twitter and Facebook."

 

[DotCommunist]

Antifa: Left-wing militants on the rise - BBC News

"Antifa's roots go back almost as far as Nazis"

"Unlike the mainstream left, they do not seek to gain power through traditional channels - winning elections and passing bills into law."

"Much like the far-right, chapters of Antifa are loosely connected and highly secretive, and organise mostly on message boards such as Reddit and over social networks like Twitter and Facebook."

wankers

 

[LDC]

Quality work, that journalist must have spent all of five minutes on Wikipedia.

 

[teqniq]

Drivel.

 

[DotCommunist]

rewind to the beeb circa spanish civil war 'many of these men are unemployed or have been active in militant trade union disputes and some are beloved to be members of the communist party' etc etc

 

[teqniq]

Nothing changes then.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Reporter on BBC Breakfast made a weird, sneery comment before about "liberal, bohemian, even hippy" Barcelona and seemed to be saying that enables radicalisation.

 

[crossthebreeze]

Ok, it wasn't a reporter, it was Will Geddes, apparently a security expert - though the way they were doing the interview - questions from the studio to him standing on las Ramblas, and cutting away to images, it seemed like he was a reporter.

 

[DotCommunist]

Ok, it wasn't a reporter, it was Will Geddes, apparently a security expert - though the way they were doing the interview - questions from the studio to him standing on las Ramblas, and cutting away to images, it seemed like he was a reporter.

theres often an edge of dirty-harryesque contempt for those pot-smoking hippies they 'protect and serve' isn't there

 

[Favelado]

Not even remotely true. Maybe the foreigners who rock up to live in Barcelona for a couple of years are sometimes a bit hippy, but your average Barcelonese is anything but. Stupid thing to say.

 

[teqniq]

Antifa: Left-wing militants on the rise - BBC News

"Antifa's roots go back almost as far as Nazis"

"Unlike the mainstream left, they do not seek to gain power through traditional channels - winning elections and passing bills into law."

"Much like the far-right, chapters of Antifa are loosely connected and highly secretive, and organise mostly on message boards such as Reddit and over social networks like Twitter and Facebook."

I am seeing a pattern here, from an article on John McDonnell in the Guardian

[quiote]McDonnell, a serial rebel who stood against Gordon Brown in 2007 to prevent him inheriting the premiership uncontested, and drew up an alternative budget every year Labour was in power, is regarded by many in his own party as more ruthless and Machiavellian than his longtime comrade-in-arms, Corbyn. Some believe he would rather stir up a revolution on the streets than win a peaceful victory at the ballot box.

 

[DotCommunist]

I am seeing a pattern here, from an article on John McDonnell in the Guardian

[quiote]McDonnell, a serial rebel who stood against Gordon Brown in 2007 to prevent him inheriting the premiership uncontested, and drew up an alternative budget every year Labour was in power, is regarded by many in his own party as more ruthless and Machiavellian than his longtime comrade-in-arms, Corbyn. Some believe he would rather stir up a revolution on the streets than win a peaceful victory at the ballot box.

he's literally a parliamentary socialist who has been stuck hammering away in that dead end for 40 odd years, but hey lets go with 'some believe'

I did read that article. Boat holiday on the broads. It does amuse me that him and Corbyn are old school in these ways. 'I'll just make some jam john' 'Good o jeremy, I'm off to patch the boat hull up. Chukka Ummna kicked a hole in the side of it and someones pissed in the fo'c's'le'

'If I catch which low prick did that I'll murder them John'

'But after the jam'

'of course. Always after the jam'

 

[Bingo]

Eclipse spectacle set to grip US public

Eclipse spectacle set to grip US public - BBC News

Fourth biggest story on the BBC website?

Get right to fuck.

 

[stavros]

Oh whoopee. Next Sunday they're devoting over an hour and a half of prime-time on Beeb1 to "Diana, 7 Days". The synopsis may or may not be, "Drink drive car crash victims not wearing seat belts die, before the media create a story which a large proportion couldn't give a fuck about, and continue it for twenty years".

Unless I've misinterpreted and it's a documentary on The Supremes.

 

[gosub]

Oh whoopee. Next Sunday they're devoting over an hour and a half of prime-time on Beeb1 to "Diana, 7 Days". The synopsis may or may not be, "Drink drive car crash victims not wearing seat belts die, before the media create a story which a large proportion couldn't give a fuck about, and continue it for twenty years".

Unless I've misinterpreted and it's a documentary on The Supremes.

oi! Express readers pay their licence fee too.

 

[Tom A]

The only person who should be entitled to ask such a question is Corbyn himself, surely!

 

[DaveCinzano]

theres often an edge of dirty-harryesque contempt for those pot-smoking hippies they 'protect and serve' isn't there

Tangent - I was working through some of the Stratfor emails released a couple of years back by <latex gloves>Wikileaks</latex gloves> and noticed that same blend of preppy/jock contempt which equates anything not right-wing or reactionary with ‘filthy hippy scum’. Here's a brief selection of emails between Stratfor types in relation to protests in London:

It's always great when people who start throwing stuff and looting in the name of peace get their asses handed to them by security folks who, whatever their faults might be, aren't hypocrites.

Prefer to see pepper foggers and German Shepards chasing long hairs thru the streets with assorted [racial epithet] getting maced.

I plan to watch this stuff develop live via the net while munching on some popcorn and sipping on a nice cold beer... Nothing like seeing K-9 German Shepherds in action, biting the ass of some self-important hippie hoping to score at the poetry reading later on in the afternoon.

The Global Intelligence Files - Re: [Social] S4 - UK - Planned protests around London G20summit(FACTBOX)

 

[JimW]

Not sure why the story about that shower of shit family the Rooneys who kept slaves is headlined referencing their ethnicity.

 

[redsquirrel]

How dare people be nasty to us!
bbc chair calls for end to abuse of journalists especially women

David Clementi said it was unacceptable for politicians to “stand by and watch” heckling at press conferences and said the corporation’s female journalists in particular were being targeted by abusers on and offline.

But nothing to see about the pay

More than a third of the BBC stars earning £150,000 or more – including Claudia Winkleman, Nick Knowles and actors from EastEnders, Casualty and Holby City – could disappear from the pay list next year due to BBC Studios programmes being omitted.

This has prompted calls for the government to force the BBC to include these names, but Clementi insisted their omission was fair because BBC Studios needed to be able compete with other production companies “on as level a playing field as possible” and potentially make shows for other broadcasters.

 

[elbows]

By BBC news business section standards I probably cant fairly highlight this one as a particular disgrace, but I always find comedy value in articles that attempt to describe how capitalism should work and ways its been going pear-shaped since the financial crisis. But thats probably because for me the comedy is built into and inseparable from the nature of the beast, and when I am reminded of some of the stuff we are supposed to buy into, its as silly as Dubya saying he will make the pie higher.

Was 2017 a bad year for capitalism?

None of those good things happened this year. In fact, 2017 was the year the budget watchdog in the UK finally gave up waiting for the usual historical rise in productivity to return - with painful consequences for the public finances and the chancellor.

When you give up on improving productivity, some would argue that you are pretty much giving up on capitalism.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

I think the article & others like it might persuade the reader to vote Labour next time though so good just for that.