why the bbc is going down the pan

[DaveCinzano]

Who are Morecambe and Wise?

Chalk-and-cheese cops who fight like cat and dog, but who always GET THE JOB DONE

 

[D'wards]

The way they dealt with the Radio 2 drive time show was real BBC bollocks.
Someone pointed out the daytime lineup was all men, and they panicked.

The problem was that all the shows had been going ages and had terrific listening figures .

So they stuck Jo Wiley with Mayo on the drivetime show purely to diversify the daytime line up, and it didn't work and poor Jo got loads of grief, mostly from women.

So they both decided to leave, and they replaced them with Sara Cox.

A short time after all this fuss Chris Evans announced he was leaving so could be replaced with a female presenter (Zoe Ball) and the problem would have been solved anyway.

 

[Sprocket.]

Knee jerk reaction from hapless management.

 

[DotCommunist]

BBC scotland have hired nazi dog salute dickhead mark meechan AKA dankula as a pundit. You lucky lucky people. Some absolute wankers in the higher branches of the decision making tree here clearly.

 

[NoXion]

BBC scotland have hired nazi dog salute dickhead mark meechan AKA dankula as a pundit. You lucky lucky people. Some absolute wankers in the higher branches of the decision making tree here clearly.

Fuckin ell, he's done well for himself. In addition to smashing the funding targets to meet his legal costs, he's getting a job with the BBC?

Who said free speech is dead eh.

 

[The Pale King]

Absolutely disgraceful - there is something so badly wrong at the BBC it's genuinely sinister.

 

[DotCommunist]

Who said free speech is dead eh.

ha, high speed u turn from the Beeb. Speech remains under the bootheel lol

 

[elbows]

 

[DaveCinzano]

^
Which suggests, he's already been hired, and presumably paid, to do a job of work, which BBC Scotland has now realised it can't broadcast and so has itself canned his contributions.

Trebles all round!

 

[elbows]

Is Michael Jackson's legacy ruined?

Paul Blanchard, founder of the PR company Right Angles, says it's too early to tell what lasting impact the revelations will have on Michael Jackson's legacy.

"This is the Brexit of pop music. People will be more divided than ever. The longer it goes on the more alienated and divided people are.

Piss off.

 

[Dogsauce]

Is Michael Jackson's legacy ruined?



Piss off.

Oh Christ, are we going to have to tolerate the phrase ‘such and such is the Brexit of such and such’ as a routinely used phrase from now on? Please shoot me.

 

[Libertad]

*single shot rings out*

 

[danny la rouge]

Malory Towers play: Why we love boarding school stories Jolly hockey sticks: Why we love boarding school stories

Doesn’t anywhere mention that the prevalence of them is because the people who publish books, commission plays, commission TV serials etc all went to boarding school and think of that as a reflection of normal life.

 

[hash tag]

An interesting move by Auntie...effectively they have bought back old editions of top gear BBC announces £173million takeover of Dave, Gold, Yesterday and other Discovery channels

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Is Michael Jackson's legacy ruined?



Piss off.

Jesus Christ

 

[krtek a houby]

Jesus Christ

... is the Brexit of the religious world etc...

 

[GarveyLives]

Why wasn't Match of the Day on TV?

He's got nothing to show ... "for contractual reasons".​

 

[mwgdrwg]

Oh Christ, are we going to have to tolerate the phrase ‘such and such is the Brexit of such and such’ as a routinely used phrase from now on? Please shoot me.

Cheese and beans is the Brexit of Urban 75.

 

[The Octagon]

Nick Boles putting the boot in after resigning, could have gone on a few threads but thought the BBC links here were 'interesting' (more in the thread):

 

[danny la rouge]

Nick Boles putting the boot in after resigning, could have gone on a few threads but thought the BBC links here were 'interesting' (more in the thread):

Was just in the car and they were chuntering on about this on the radio. I switched over because I hate it when a tweet becomes news in other media. But I wouldn’t have thought this was too controversial a view. MPs are at least technically elected. Advisors are unaccountable. How much is a ‘communications chief’ doing the bidding of the PM, and how much are they ploughing their own furrow? If it’s all kept quiet in cosy, behind the scenes chats, we’ll never get to know.

 

[skyscraper101]

Singing cats’ names over the phone with John Humphries on the Today programme to prove whether cats respect humans to much jolification, followed immediately by the stoning gays to death story in Brunei.

 

[stavros]

 

[mauvais]

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Where's that, the website or the app? Edit: looks like the website.

 

[stavros]

Where's that, the website or the app? Edit: looks like the website.

It was on the homepage of Sounds yesterday afternoon.

 

[mauvais]

It was on the homepage of Sounds yesterday afternoon.

I'll mention it to the team that works on it

Edit: oh, I looked at the schedule and Charles was sitting in for Wright, so it does actually make some sense, even if it looks weird. On the full schedule it's more obvious.

 

[mx wcfc]

I "had a quiet day" at work, and may have spent a while on the internet.

The Guardian news site was all over the school kids' anti-climate change demos in London and all over the country. Live coverage of what was happening in London and all over the UK.

All I could find on the Beeb was a reference on the London page to travel reports about congestion in central London.

Clearly as it wasn't term time and they were not therefore skipping lessons, their demonstrations weren't newsworthy.

 

[rekil]

Hurray for scientific racism.

 

[Proper Tidy]

BBC's primer on marxism is quite something

Marxism: A bloody ideology or just economics?

Apparently bourgeoisie means middle class

 

[stavros]

A number of their political team are really struggling to refer to the Tory leadership contender by his full name or Mr. Johnson. I think Adam Fleming referenced him as if he were a mate about five times on Politics Live yesterday.

It's not as if his surname is hard to pronounce, unlike his rival.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Hurray for scientific racism.

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Wtf! That was on the BBC?