why the bbc is going down the pan

[Serge Forward]

More sensationalist crap:

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Venus is over 1000 times less bright than the moon, hardly "dazzling".

They'll be around 150 times the apparent width of Jupiter apart, hardly "almost touching".

In astronomical terms that's pretty close. 1000 times less bright than the moon is still very bright, astronomically speaking.

 

[platinumsage]

In astronomical terms that's pretty close. 1000 times less bright than the moon is still very bright, astronomically speaking.

Neither dazzling nor almost touching though, astronomically speaking. The Sun is dazzling, and the moon being within a couple hundred arcseconds of Jupiter would be "almost touching".

 

[platinumsage]

Anyway it follows an increasing trend of dumbing-down and sensationalism in the headlines on the main pages of its news website.

 

[teqniq]

Of more interest to me is the failure of the BBC to provide any coverage whatsoever on the police raiding Michelle Mone's house in connection with dodgy PPE contracts. It was reported in the Mirror, Guardian, the FT, the Telegraph and the Mail, but zero from the BBC. Why is that I wonder?

 

[andysays]

More sensationalist crap:

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Venus is over 1000 times less bright than the moon, hardly "dazzling".

They'll be around 150 times the apparent width of Jupiter apart, hardly "almost touching".

If they actually touch, wouldn't that be, like, the end of the solar system or something

 

[platinumsage]

Of more interest to me is the failure of the BBC to provide any coverage whatsoever on the police raiding Michelle Mone's house in connection with dodgy PPE contracts. It was reported in the Mirror, Guardian, the FT, the Telegraph and the Mail, but zero from the BBC. Why is that I wonder?

Judging from their dumbing-down, they probably decided that their new target audience are too thick to know who she is.

 

[equationgirl]

Anyway it follows an increasing trend of dumbing-down and sensationalism in the headlines on the main pages of its news website.

God I really hate their approach to headlines.

I also hate that the articles sometimes aren't even spellchecked before uploading - this week's howler was 'demeaner' for demeanor.

 

[weltweit]

Of more interest to me is the failure of the BBC to provide any coverage whatsoever on the police raiding Michelle Mone's house in connection with dodgy PPE contracts. It was reported in the Mirror, Guardian, the FT, the Telegraph and the Mail, but zero from the BBC. Why is that I wonder?

They probably will mention it now, belatedly, my impression on stories critical of government type people the BBC doesn't want to break news, they don't like to be first.

 

[weltweit]

In fact I don't think the BBC likes to break stories full stop.

Does anyone know of a story the BBC was first with?

 

[DaveCinzano]

In fact I don't think the BBC likes to break stories full stop.

Does anyone know of a story the BBC was first with?

Cliff Richard raid

 

[equationgirl]

Cliff Richard raid

Michael Barrymore party death?

 

[stavros]

Does anyone know of a story the BBC was first with?

Germany invading Poland?

 

[equationgirl]

The death of the People's Princess?

 

[flypanam]

The death of the People's Princess?

They called Thatcher the People’s Princess?

 

[pbsmooth]

Of more interest to me is the failure of the BBC to provide any coverage whatsoever on the police raiding Michelle Mone's house in connection with dodgy PPE contracts. It was reported in the Mirror, Guardian, the FT, the Telegraph and the Mail, but zero from the BBC. Why is that I wonder?

Lawyers will have told them not to after they got sued for covering the Cliff raid

 

[equationgirl]

They called Thatcher the People’s Princess?

I'm pretty sure they weren't first with Thatch...were they?

 

[equationgirl]

XThey called Thatcher the People’s Princess?

I'm pretty sure they weren't first with Thatch...were they?

 

[savoloysam]

In fact I don't think the BBC likes to break stories full stop.

Does anyone know of a story the BBC was first with?

Every microscopic increase in the R rate?

 

[teqniq]

Lawyers will have told them not to after they got sued for covering the Cliff raid

That's a possible explanation, however I find it unlikely particularly in the light of the raids being reported in the publications listed above. The NCA also raided 4 offices with the assistance of the Isle of Man police (as they have no jurisdiction there):

Michelle Mone's home raided by police over multi-million pound PPE fraud probe

The National Crime Agency is investigating deals by PPE Medpro, a company set up by a business associate of Baroness Michelle Mone - the famous lingerie tycoon - whose £11m London home has been raided by police

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Lol:

BBC refuses to say why it hasn't covered raid on Michelle Mone's house

THE BBC has refused to say why it hasn't covered the story of a Conservative peer's house being raided by police.

www.thenational.scot

 

[elbows]

Every microscopic increase in the R rate?

They covered such things prominently but I doubt they were especially early, given that such estimates were published by government at routine intervals and then reported by all.

A valuable service given the rubbish some people were promoting when the second wave in 2020 was really getting going, people like you advocating going back to normal in September 2020 at just the point we needed to go further to try to save tens of thousands of lives in the months that followed.

There were times where the BBC bought into that deadly agenda too, but when the huge death spikes were undeniably in effect they did their bit to try to dampen things down.

 

[elbows]

When two different possible wordings of a sentence get mangled together:

However, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said that he will not be nominating any ministers to the executive until the issue if the Northern Ireland Protocol is not resolved.

From a live updates page https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-northern-ireland-61320994?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=627632f801eea2774308ddc0&'Big issue for our readers is a potential Sinn Féin first minister'&2022-05-07T09:06:21.822Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:0d01e2f0-5137-4b4a-b57b-4c5cc6bf631d&pinned_post_asset_id=627632f801eea2774308ddc0&pinned_post_type=share

I cant believe it isnt what he didnt say it wasnt.

Unless of course this is my mistake, being unaware of a magic moment to come in Northern Ireland that is known as 'the issue', where differences and mess are magically resolved even if the protocol issues continue to fester.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Of more interest to me is the failure of the BBC to provide any coverage whatsoever on the police raiding Michelle Mone's house in connection with dodgy PPE contracts. It was reported in the Mirror, Guardian, the FT, the Telegraph and the Mail, but zero from the BBC. Why is that I wonder?

I suspect that the Cliff Richard fiasco, and its subsequent cost might have something to do with it.

Cliff Richard settles BBC case for half the £4.5million he spent on legal fees

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Cliff has been locked in a privacy battle with the Beeb over its coverage of a police raid on his home

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[inva]

Noticed this nasty little line in this article on the Rwanda deportation flight

The man, who is in his fifties, left Iraq earlier this year and crossed the English Channel to reach the UK, rather than claiming asylum in another European country.

 

[stavros]

I don't think anyone foresaw the possibility that Manchester City would play West Ham next season, or Liverpool Fulham.

 

[two sheds]

BBC Bitesize gave platform to ‘extreme’ anti-abortion group

Health experts slam use of the term ‘pro-life’ and inclusion of organisation with a history of promoting misinformation

www.theguardian.com

 

[platinumsage]

“Ambulance services on fringe of collapse - paramedic”

Ambulance services on fringe of collapse - paramedic

BBC Newsnight spends 12 hours at six hospitals with the longest delays handing over patients to A&E.

www.bbc.co.uk

Maybe the paramedic coined a phrase but the headline is not in quotation marks, they could easily have used the word “brink”.

 

[bluescreen]

“Ambulance services on fringe of collapse - paramedic”

Ambulance services on fringe of collapse - paramedic

BBC Newsnight spends 12 hours at six hospitals with the longest delays handing over patients to A&E.

www.bbc.co.uk

Maybe the paramedic coined a phrase but the headline is not in quotation marks, they could easily have used the word “brink”.

It got frayed at the edges a long time ago so I don't think there's any brink left, tbf.

 

[DaveCinzano]

It got frayed at the edges a long time ago so I don't think there's any brink left, tbf.

It's a sad fact that many people working in healthcare end up with chronic brinking problems

 

[extra dry]

In astronomical terms that's pretty close. 1000 times less bright than the moon is still very bright, astronomically speaking.

cosmic man