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[88v8]

the current overblown fuss over the BBC...

Really? You think that turning a blind eye to child abuse is overblown?

Allegations of child abuse. In some cases unprovable because the the alleged perps are dead.

What bothers me about the Beeb is its prediliction for shooting itself in the feet by blowing up every little error, and endlessly harping on about it.
Easier than intelligent journalism, I guess. Did the Jonathon Dross episode really merit all that angst?

More so I am bothered by the BBC's left-wing bias.
Look at its comedy output .... How many right-wing comedians? Ian Hislop, and errrmm...
Also, look at the topics it covers, and doesn't; Overpopulation - the most pressing topic of the age, especially as England is the third-most crowded country in the world - not a word. The rate of childbirth of immigrants compared to the settled population - not a peep. The Govt figures appeared on the website, didn't hear a word on the radio.
But endless unbalanced bashing of the utility companies, and hand-wringing about the 'disadvantaged'.

And, da capo, as a commentator said when discussing McAlpine, would Newsnight have leapt so gleefully on this baseless allegation if he had been a Labour supporter?

I should say I only listen to The Home and Third programmes, and only watch BBC 1 & 2, and that not since January as I haven't reconnected the telly yet since we moved. Perhaps other BBC channels have a balancing bias to the right, but I suspect not as the Beeb has become institutionally leftie, and like employs like, so it is and will be self-sustaining.

My views are of course completely unbiased. Right-wing?? Moi???

Ivor

PS this post is a good example of why this forum is so very wise in keeping well away from political and social topics :shock:

 

[Flyfisher]

PS this post is a good example of why this forum is so very wise in keeping well away from political and social topics :shock:

Indeed. Perhaps we should digress, instead, on Milady's point about girls and their shiny knockers?

 

[angrybird]

PS this post is a good example of why this forum is so very wise in keeping well away from political and social topics :shock:

Indeed. Perhaps we should digress, instead, on Milady's point about girls and their shiny knockers?

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i'm not one to leave the boys out :lol:

 

[DJH]

I can't keep up with these posts, ha ha, but getting back a little more on topic I have a friend who was to appear on an episode of Time Team. He's a Buildings Archaeologist and was asked to speak to camera about the particular building the Team were at, and he was told in a roundabout way to 'dumb it down a little and talk about 'huge beams and massive structures, etc.
Need less to say he only appeared in the background when the show was televised as he wouldn't play ball so to speak. :shock: :shock:

 

[Sonyaclegg]

I need Time Team to come and dig up all around our house. Will save us having to pay hundreds every time we want to dig a hole. Anyone got their number and are they avaliable in two weeks!! We need a watching brief for when the septic tank goes in, when the footings for the garage and a survey on the outbuilding.

 

[PeterI]

I can't keep up with these posts, ha ha, but getting back a little more on topic I have a friend who was to appear on an episode of Time Team. He's a Buildings Archaeologist and was asked to speak to camera about the particular building the Team were at, and he was told in a roundabout way to 'dumb it down a little and talk about 'huge beams and massive structures, etc.
Need less to say he only appeared in the background when the show was televised as he wouldn't play ball so to speak. :shock: :shock:

This particular problem can cause an awful lot of academic jealousy, a good friends partner occasionally appears as a talking head usually talking about scottish history (Scones on the great british bake off last time which was a surprise) and the ability to dumb down to an audience and be a good interviewee / presenter is surprisingly hard as a skill (I believe shes heard mumblings from more academic colleagues wondering why she often gets chosen).

I have a few other journalist friends who turn up on the radio / TV doing a talking head bit including the late Guy Kewney (who was the correct guest as opposed to Guy Goma) it always seems odd to see folks you know well appearing on the telly at random, it's definitely a real skill somewhat like being a good teacher.

 

[DJH]

I'd never thought about it like that but you are right, it does take a skill to talk to an audience so that everyone who is listening can both understand and I suppose visualise what the speaker is talking about. For my sins in the past I've had to get up on the hind legs to talk at seminars and the like and I well remember one occasion when in front of about two hundred architects and specifiers I could see their eyes glazing over as I banged on about some technical stuff too long!!