The BBC

and yet they've employed Jeremy Clarkson, Carol Thatcher, Michael Burke, Patrick Moore (latter two mentioned just due to sexist comments made in past)...

... and Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo and Nick Robinson and Quentin Letts ad nauseum

Michael Buerk is a Conservative?

Only when it comes to the BBC employing women, I think... women who get jobs he wants, that is

sexist, conservative, racist - all the same

Regardless of how many sexist conservative racist rightwingers are employed there, the very existence of the BBC as a huge part of the media landscape is a slap in the face to Tory free market ideals, so obviously they want to pare it back. I don't think it's all about Murdoch.

In my own experience, sexism is not limited to conservative men!

LOL, far from it!

Wondering how many Tories are anti-Beeb (lol anti-Auntie, don't mind me) cz free market ideals, nanny state trying to make us pay for socialised tv, drag out ancient acronym about the commies etc, and how many are in favour of preserving it as a Great British institution from the days when Great Britain etc etc, y'know, a relatively staid old thing that doesn't put quite as many flashing neon colours and topless ladies on as the other channels

I mean, the other group does exist, right? Or is this the sector of small-c conservatives who wouldn't admit to being such and vote Lib Dem? (PS this is not really intended derogatively as it describes much of my family and quite possibly me)

Hardly any of the latter and none who matter <--------- satirical poetry

and even they would be appeased by one radio station playing Test Match Special, the shipping forecast and The Archers

the opposition from Murdoch, the Mail etc is predicated purely on the BBC grabbing a fairly hefty slice of online eyeballs and TV ratings that might otherwise be going to their properties - however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising.. because then the advertisers would spread their (finite amount of) money over to the BBC innit

however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising..

also many BBC supporters greatest fear surely

i can't believe i said "carries" instead of using the subjunctive. GAH

Fun fact: the BBC was nationalised under a Tory government.

yeah, THAT'll stop their commie styles in their TRACKS! oh wait (a long time)

Some guy on the weather forecast talking about a lull in the rain definitely used the phrase "a bit of rest-bite" today. Beginning of the end if you ask me.

Given the accuracy of the Met Office, that forecast might prove to be something of a damp squid.

now we have a weatherman wearing jeans. It's a speedy apocalypse.

Don't be such a milk toast.

DAMMING REPORT
was behind the newsreader on the lead item a few weeks back. ten o'clock news.

I read something about Prime Gordon Brown on their website a few minutes ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8273467.stm

The person in the video is not Clarie Middleton. I don't know who it is! (Not to mention that the new chief executive's name is "Clarie", not "Claire"...)

goddamn liberal shilly-shalliers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/16/bbc-africa-have-your-say

I suggest all gays are put on a remote island somewhere and left for a generation - after which, theoretically there should be none left!

(is it legit to do a kind of quasi-homophobic zing here? along the lines of DIDN'T THEY TRY THAT WITH AUSTRALIA? OH!)

More of an Australophobic zinger there

patosceptic

Ban all Ugandan discussions, that'll solve the problem.

lol

Heard they were making a film about this - Last Queen Of Scotland.

Actually that's not funny.

you've just qualified for your own BBC3 series tho

Too subtle

it was delivered by seinfeld in a guest role

No, it was just a horrible joke to make, apologies.

i'm am literally sitting here typing in protest & outrage. i have half a mind to make a cup of tea and drink it.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ER4DVRPPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Frankie Boyle will probably steal it anyway

steve punt it's ironic because his name rhymes with sleeve

"four original episodes" plus several hours of shouting

and that's just people who've been bought it

Several hours of sitting in a corner, arms round your knees, rocking back and forth, muttering, "Why why? Why me?"

Wonder how much they like them in Uganda?

Now here's a funny song
To help you all along
It's really a bit corny
But at least it makes me money

I play this 'ere guitar
On Radio 4 ha ha ha!
The Now Show is just cack
it's a schoolboy shouting match

dum d-d-dum dum... dum dum! ba-dum pish!

LOL

not even gonna read it, just LOL repeatedly

is this about the axing of last of the summer wine?

go to www.bbc.co.uk and giggle like a giggly one

uh what was happening on the BBC homepage an hour ago?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10520487

good to see my licence fee spent on incitement

Well it is apparently a real thing, though still obviously a tiny minority of claims. There was a lot of coverage on World At One today, a lot of which was really useful I think in making clear how many people are rejected out of hand and then win on appeal because their claims are actually legitimate. What absolutely fucking winds me up is Labourite ghouls characterising the false claims as individuals "taking the mickey" when it's absolutely clear that pretty much all of them are the result of desperate people being told what to do by unscrupulous gangsters. The Home Office is so fond of saying that they're stopping boats etc not because of the innocent souls on board but because of trafficking rings - well - when are they going to go after the actual bad guys here? Do they think people enjoy lying on asylum applications and risking jail time? And why can't Montague ask these questions?? ffffffffuuuuu

"to watch this match you need a TV license. To buy one scan the QR code at the top of your screen"

yeah it just feels desperate, in the 90s they were making the case with lavish all-star music videos that topped the charts, now they can't even be bothered to threaten us

Those QR codes have been around for a couple of years. A non-trivial number of people do actually use them, astoundingly

it's less intrusive and less frequent than the omaze-lite itv equivalent

https://www.itv.com/win/competition/67949/win-75000-a-trip-to-new-york-and-tickets-to-the-fifa-world-cup-2026-final-in-new-jersey

and all those gemini bumper ads

(gotta love the way you go to the itv lottery page and get a sidebar overlay blocking 1/3rd of the screen promoting the itv lottery)