why the bbc is going down the pan

[Raheem]

Katya Adler on R4 this morning speculated whether Boris Johnson would remain in the White House.

 

[BristolEcho]

Thought the same yesterday.

 

[WouldBe]

Caught the end of pointless this afternoon and you could hear the control room talking over them for several minutes.

 

[mx wcfc]

Caught the end of pointless this afternoon and you could hear the control room talking over them for several minutes.

Gutted I missed that. It would have been interesting if nothing else.

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[two sheds]

wehey

Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple and Seven Samurai it is then

 

[platinumsage]

This is getting ridiculed on twitter:

 

[teqniq]

Fucking cheapskates:

Strictly dropped us after we asked to be paid, say musicians

Band say they were offered a free lunch and ‘screen time’ for appearing on BBC’s spinoff It Takes Two

www.theguardian.com

 

[platinumsage]

 

[stavros]

Did anyone watch the Villa-Palace game earlier, and spot the occasional EA Sports add on the score graphic? I suspect this is because they're being fed the footage by the Premier League. Nonetheless, it amounts to advertising.

 

[not a trot]

Did anyone watch the Villa-Palace game earlier, and spot the occasional EA Sports add on the score graphic? I suspect this is because they're being fed the footage by the Premier League. Nonetheless, it amounts to advertising.

I remember the days when the Blue Peter team used to make things from empty washing up liquid bottles. Some poor sod had to sit and scrub the bottles till they were just plain white. You could still tell they were Fairy Liquid bottles.

 

[stavros]

I remember the days when the Blue Peter team used to make things from empty washing up liquid bottles. Some poor sod had to sit and scrub the bottles till they were just plain white. You could still tell they were Fairy Liquid bottles.

And it was always "sticky tape", rather than a synonymous brand.

It annoys me a bit that they outwardly promote Twitter and to a lesser extend Facebook, Instagram, etc. They could easily just say "X wrote online...".

 

[Cerv]

cropping the relevant part of the map out. someone's been at the Boxing Day brandies

 

[Artaxerxes]

Don't normally follow ER twitter but this is a great example of the BBC spinning a headline in favour of the government

 

[ska invita]

What would be a good headline for the main story on the frontpage of the BBC website? What would really capture the tragedy unfolding?
How about this:

 

[platinumsage]

 

[platinumsage]

They sent me a survey which they assured me wouldn't take longer than 5 minutes to complete.

However it's full of existential questions e.g.



I started an essay about Mrs Brown's Boys but just closed the tab in the end.

 

[Shechemite]

On the one hand child abuse is bad, on the other, won’t someone think of the performers

Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk

Credit card companies are blocking payments to adult site Pornhub, which is hitting sex workers' earnings.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

New BBC Chairman has Donated Over £400,000 to the Conservative Party

(Source: as stated in image)​

Richard Sharp has been a director of the right wing think tank, Centre for Policy Studies, since 2002. It has published studies which have been critical of the BBC, called for the licence fee to be scrapped, and accused the service of having a left wing bias.

 

[stavros]

More royal brown-nosing:

 

[platinumsage]

 

[equationgirl]

Yeah, flawed is not the right word at all.

 

[Dogsauce]

BBC celebrating the milestone of the first female Vice President of America by running a big article on what women were wearing at the ceremony (with a token mention of Bernie’s mittens).

not going to link because they can fuck off with this backwards shite.

 

[platinumsage]

They think their audience are too thick to have heard of Unilever and/or just want a click-baity headline, so they do some free advertising for one of Unilever's products instead:

 

[Knotted]

BBC on 100,000 corona deaths

Others will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.

Others, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, for example; its ethnically diverse and densely packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly in the close air between people.

UK Covid deaths: Why the 100,000 toll is so bad - BBC News

I don't accept the "reporting on what people might be saying" excuse. Especially not on scientific questions.

 

[platinumsage]

They're really helping to interpret the incredibly complicated vaccination priorities with this helpful massive diagram which makes things so much easier to understand, and the article so much easier to read:

Covid vaccine: How many people are vaccinated in the UK?

A look at progress made in vaccinating the country, as more than 52 million people have received at least one dose and 38 million have had a booster or third dose.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Cerv]

no-one in that graphic is queueing 2m from the others

 

[DaveCinzano]

no-one in that graphic is queueing 2m from the others

It's just a forced perspective thing - they're alternating really tall and really short people and making them queue in a zigzag

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why 100,000 deaths is a bad thing.

Next week on Panorama: why are fish wet?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Why 100,000 deaths is a bad thing.

Typical woolly Beeb nonsense. In Allegra's day it would have been Are 100,000 deaths really that bad a thing?