why the bbc is going down the pan

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At the moment, the BBC website has announced the passing of Peter Stringfellow but not a mention of Mary Wilson.
Just a bit slow or political bias?

 

[butchersapron]

Or maybe it's just of little interest.

 

[hash tag]

It would also appear to be of little interest here. I would have thought better and rather sad about this. A great woman in her own right, but hey ho....

 

[butchersapron]

It would also appear to be of little interest here. I would have thought better and rather sad about this. A great woman in her own right, but hey ho....

You can't force people to have heard of people they haven't heard of.

 

[Orang Utan]

It would also appear to be of little interest here. I would have thought better and rather sad about this. A great woman in her own right, but hey ho....

Most of us were children or weren't born when her husband was prime minister

 

[Orang Utan]

It would also appear to be of little interest here. I would have thought better and rather sad about this. A great woman in her own right, but hey ho....

you still haven't said what makes her great and why we should be interested in her.

 

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I thought better of you than this Orang Utan

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought better of you than this Orang Utan

No, you didn't. Be honest.
Say something of substance then. Make a case. Don't just make snide comments about urban just cos we've failed to eulogise someone who we haven't heard of, or who doesn't mean anything to us.
You could even start an RIP thread so you can explain why we need to note her passing.

 

[CNT36]

By 9 they were muttering about her on the radio. The old guy who'd heard of her must have turned up.

 

[equationgirl]

Don't read the piece on Charles Rennie Mackintosh' 150 anniversary. It's factually incorrect and badly written. For shame BBC - a cursory article (at best) on an artistic genius.

 

[stavros]

Ignore. I posted an error from their website before realising I had read it wrongly.

 

[JimW]

Ignore. I posted an error from their website before realising I had read it wrongly.

Seen several sub-editing errors these last few days but nothing worth a post - Provence instead of province was one. O tempora o mores

 

[mwgdrwg]

Is Gove the most effective minister?

 

[stavros]

Is Gove the most effective minister?

One might argue that this isn't his worst cabinet spell.

 

[mwgdrwg]

One might argue that this isn't his worst cabinet spell.

One might argue that he's a Pob-faced cunt.

 

[not-bono-ever]

 

[Mrs D]

A headline saying Cheryl and Liam have split.

Liam Gallagher? Liam Neeson? Cheryl Crow?

 

[mojo pixy]

There's a woman called Cheryl who works in the bakery on the high street, and a lad called Liam is a mechanic at the garage round the corner. She's old enough to be his mum and to be honest I had no idea they were seeing each other but then I'm not much for gossip.

 

[elbows]

Last night Laura Kuenssberg used completely the wrong word in her David Davis quits article, its subsequently been fixed but it was quite a clanger.

after the prime minister's Chequers agreement with cabinet ministers to pursue looser ties with the EU than he desired, he found his position untenable.

after the prime minister's Chequers agreement with cabinet ministers to pursue closer ties with the EU than he desired, he found his position untenable.

(from Davis 'had no choice but resignation' )

Oops!

 

[JimW]

Last night Laura Kuenssberg used completely the wrong word in her David Davis quits article, its subsequently been fixed but it was quite a clanger.





(from Davis 'had no choice but resignation' )

Oops!

The sub-editing's really poor now, must be really under-staffed. Spot howlers all the time, and you can see in some China stories they've had a non-native journo write it then not really polished it up as it retains all the common small mistakes Chinese people with good English still make.

 

[agricola]

Last night Laura Kuenssberg used completely the wrong word in her David Davis quits article, its subsequently been fixed but it was quite a clanger.





(from Davis 'had no choice but resignation' )

Oops!

perhaps Davis said "looser" in some other sentence entirely but they thought it would work as an answer to another question?

 

[elbows]

The sub-editing's really poor now, must be really under-staffed. Spot howlers all the time, and you can see in some China stories they've had a non-native journo write it then not really polished it up as it retains all the common small mistakes Chinese people with good English still make.

Yeah, I've not done a proper study but I've seen the decline happen in what felt like several stages over recent years.

 

[elbows]

 

[elbows]

Ah that was such a classic I think its made my day.

 

[skyscraper101]

Just had to switch off the 'World At One' for waxing lyrical about the amazingness of the Love Island Finale on ITV2 last night complete with highlight clips, with some critic comparing it to a Jane Austin romance.

GTF.

 

[skyscraper101]

Madonna's London Mini goes up for sale

To save you reading. A car she once owned, and then sold to her driver, who then sold to someone else... is now being sold again. A mini cooper ffs.

 

[skyscraper101]

Man changes channel at football halftime.

Football fans' Babestation surprise

 

[stavros]

The news homepage yesterday:

 

[Abolish The BBC]

Time to abolish the BBC.

 

[Abolish The BBC]

Anybody who wants to sign a petition to abolish the BBC should google: 'revoke the BBC Royal Charter petition'.