why the bbc is going down the pan

[teqniq]

Not that i am particularly surprised

BBC editor quits post over equal pay row

 

[billy_bob]

John Humphrys admits: I'm a complete fucking bellend

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Prince sports new hairdo on royal visit

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Tbf he does look better.

 

[billy_bob]

'Slightly shorter hair' is not really a 'new hairdo', is it?

 

[elbows]

The proofreading side of things has become noticeably worse on their website in the last year or so.

The emergency services were called and Mr Bacon was died at 23:59 BST.

Fork lift truck death 'misadventure'

 

[stavros]

The BBC do have a habit of creating newsworthy people who otherwise would be better ignored. The entire career of Nigel Farage springs to mind, and my thoughts also turn to Piers Morgan, who was interviewed by Marr yesterday about his Trump interview. He, Morgan, seems deeply unpopular and his name has almost become shorthand for annoyance, and the Trump thing was going to get loads of coverage without the Beeb prolonging his media exposure.

 

[Dogsauce]

Think Dacre must be guest editing the website today. Apparently it's necessary to mention Nancy Pelosi's footwear as the caption to this picture, something that isn't mentioned at all in the article. What footwear anyone else was wearing was also overlooked. Wtf is this weird shit.

 

[butchersapron]

Start of many: 40 grand a year NOT to do a column.

The BBC also paid Ackroyd a £3,000 annual clothing allowance, and her contract restricted her from working for other organisations without BBC permission. The BBC wanted her to stop writing a column for the Sunday Express and a payment of more than £40,000 was made that “appears to have been linked” to her giving it up.

 

[elbows]

A rare mention of the BBC class issue...

TV's Steph says 'posh' stars earn more

She told the paper: "We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class.

"It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds. It's just posh."

The presenter added that "a lot of people in management are from the same background".

She said: "We're talking about, 'How do we represent more working class people?' when they themselves are not working class. So how do they know?"

McGovern also recounted an incident where a manager told her she was "too common" to be a BBC presenter.

 

[elbows]

More signs of inadequate proofreading / bodged editing.

Ms Laurie had earlier told ITV's Good Morning Britain that he mentioned the video when he at the end of her shift her husband picked her up from the depot and told her about the video.

Near-miss bus driver: 'Training kicked in'

 

[elbows]

And here they make reference to the Weinstein mock statue 'holding an Academy Award' but are too prudish to dwell on the positioning of said award.

Weinstein statue appears ahead of Oscars

 

[stavros]

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will get married on 19 May at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle - are you planning to see them tie the knot?

We're looking for people who have been in the crowds to watch more than one royal wedding and are also planning to be in Windsor for Harry and Meghan's big day.

Royalty seems to be the one issue on which the Beeb makes no effort to hear an alternative voice (there may be others, which I'm sure will be highlighted by subsequent posters).

 

[8115]

I know it's not proper down-the-pan stuff like editorial bias (although I don't know that's new) but Radio 4 seems to be getting increasingly shite. I can't remember any good examples of the top of my head but there are some terrible new programmes.

 

[mwgdrwg]

 

[krtek a houby]

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It's a wonderful backdrop but all the same

 

[stavros]

Meghan Markle, who is an American actress, is, we're told, "a great champion and ambassador for women". This is woman who has achieved a great deal of her fame from shagging a more famous man.

 

[mauvais]

Meghan Markle, who is an American actress, is, we're told, "a great champion and ambassador for women". This is woman who has achieved a great deal of her fame from shagging a more famous man.

Not entirely - she's done quite a lot of humanitarian work, to what actual benefit I don't know, and was quite famous as an actor by way of 'Suits'.

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Meghan Markle, who is an American actress, is, we're told, "a great champion and ambassador for women". This is woman who has achieved a great deal of her fame from shagging a more famous man.

Yeah this sort of thing isn’t helping.

 

[bogbrush]

A rare mention of the BBC class issue...

TV's Steph says 'posh' stars earn more

They are not 'posh'. They are horrid vulgar little middle-class proles.

 

[elbows]

"More seriously, beyond the particulars of my own case, I felt that the BBC had betrayed public trust by promoting a system in the UK by which the secret police were licensing and blacklisting journalists. Whenever I hear the BBC boasting about its fine traditions of journalism, I feel a minor stab of outrage."

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’

 

[equationgirl]

Meghan Markle, who is an American actress, is, we're told, "a great champion and ambassador for women". This is woman who has achieved a great deal of her fame from shagging a more famous man.

She's done a fair amount in her own right, this is somewhat of an outdated view that a woman can only achieve if she sleeps with a man. I'm no fan of hers by any means but I think your post is unfair.

 

[not a trot]

Say what you like about the beeb, but their coverage of thousands of people running around London in fancy dress, is fucking awesome.

 

[stavros]

She's done a fair amount in her own right, this is somewhat of an outdated view that a woman can only achieve if she sleeps with a man. I'm no fan of hers by any means but I think your post is unfair.

I take your and others' points, and understand that I may have been needlessly blunt for effect. Who else is in Suits?

 

[equationgirl]

I take your and others' points, and understand that I may have been needlessly blunt for effect. Who else is in Suits?

Who else is in suits? A half dozen others actors, none of whom appear to be instantly recognisable as far as I can tell. I don't watch it personally.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Who else is in Suits?

Nobody knows. There's no way to find out such an arcane piece of information.

 

[JimW]

The spouses of half the crowned heads of Europe, that's who.

 

[gosub]

Just watched local news
Portsmouth Mutiny Festival: Two die after falling ill - Two die after falling ill at festival

Its 20hours on... So I m guessing not actually identifying the pills is an editorial decision..... It is coming to something when the Sun is being more socially responsible than the BBC Tragic young dad and teenage girl may have taken 'Green Heineken ecstasy pills' before festival drug deaths

 

[krtek a houby]

From today's entertainment news

 

[crossthebreeze]

Just watched local news
Portsmouth Mutiny Festival: Two die after falling ill - Two die after falling ill at festival

Its 20hours on... So I m guessing not actually identifying the pills is an editorial decision..... It is coming to something when the Sun is being more socially responsible than the BBC Tragic young dad and teenage girl may have taken 'Green Heineken ecstasy pills' before festival drug deaths

I missed your comment at the time, but on local news (NE England) at the time o this story they even had a man who's daughter died in a similar way talking about his campaign for pill testing and harm reduction measures at festivals without giving the identifying information of the pills