The BBC

yeah that is inexcusable incompetence tbf.

James 'Kobe' Bryant. I'm quite surprised by the level of coverage this story is being given on the BBC and elsewhere tbh, he might be a celebrity in the US but he's far from being a houshold name over here.

This is inexcusable, but ^^ yeah, same here. It's what I hate most of the US-focused media: noone knows nor cares about basketball here, nor the super bowl or nonsense like that. And yet we have to hear about it every time.

Same in France and Romania; getting massive coverage nonetheless.

lads this isnt steve guppy its cristiano ronaldo tbf

Down to the… allegations.

(Too soon?)

Guppy had one cap, that's nothing to sneeze at xp

xp (right on time imo)

Typical Romanian headline: 'Donald Trump's harrowing message, immediately after Kobe Bryant's death was confirmed'.

Since Sky started buying up all the sports people are interested in, the BBC is reduced to buying NFL highlights and then sticking them on straight after Match of the Day. Worse, they've hired Mark Chapman and two guffawing fratboys to present them in a sub-Top Gear blokey knee/back slapping manner.

Basketball is popular here in France; we just had an NBA game here on Friday. It is getting massive coverage, that's true.

Ime it's not unpopular per se but it's not especially popular either.

in media coverage it's as popular as biathlon, no small feat!

I mean, I talk basketball with a lot of French people and see a lot of jerseys out, but I live in the nord-est de Paris. it's not academic types who are into it.

Crown green bowling gets more coverage in the UK. Quite right too!

Litmus test for me: there's no coverage of the nba, of the actual sportsing I mean, in the Netherlands. Not in the main media, anyways. Yet this is on all the front pages and then some.

I think I'll stick to basketball.

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British Basketball League

Bristol Flyers.
Cheshire Phoenix.
Radisson Red Glasgow Rocks.
Leicester Riders.
Newcastle Eagles.
Plymouth Raiders.
Surrey Scorchers.

maybe too soon, but I was pml last night at Alan Sugar's dozy comment that helicopters "defy the law of physics"

There's only 7 teams? (xp)

oh there are a few more teams
East London Lions
Manchester Giants
Sheffield Sharks
Worcester Wolves

the Bristol Flyers play at the SGS College Arena with a capacity of 750

Radisson Red Glasgow Rocks

gee i wonder if the glasgow rocks have a corporate sponsor of some kind

it's also the B. Braun Sheffield Sharks

B Braun seems to be...a German medical equipment manufacturer?

US basketball very popular with UK teens/young men, ime.

Worry not, the Teutons will soon be ousted.

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Since Sky started buying up all the sports people are interested in, the BBC is reduced to buying NFL highlights and then sticking them on straight after Match of the Day. Worse, they've hired Mark Chapman and two guffawing fratboys to present them in a sub-Top Gear blokey knee/back slapping manner.

― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 27 January 2020 10:41 (twelve minutes ago

Yeah, I like NFL but this show is pretty awful. Theres always an insufferably pompous intro to the weeks action also. Bring back Mike Carlson from Channel 4!!

lads this isnt steve guppy its cristiano ronaldo tbf

otm

US basketball very popular with UK teens/young men, ime.

also otm

Not that they're partic good at it

I have seen the Lions play at the Copper Box. the standard of play was.... not high.

I like the NFL show ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i regret to inform you that the bbc are back on their bullshit

BBC: "Is it racist to say there are too many foreigners in Britain?"

Starmer: "Can I just say how uncomfortable I am about that... We've just spent four days in intensive care with my mother in law where there are people of every nationality giving her the most incredible care."

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) January 27, 2020

"Is it racist to say there are too many foreigners in Britain?"

this is where an expensive education gets you

Jeremy Vine retweeting P3ter Sw3den and doing a section on Tradwives in the same week as the BBC is begging for support is an odd look.

I mean how is this anything worse than Generation Identity being on Newsnight the night of the Christchurch massacre

i'm sorry, the brexit what now

We’re leaving the EU this Friday.
Our Brexit bulldog will answer your questions.
What would you like to know about Brexit? pic.twitter.com/dsDjblapEv

— BBC London (@BBCLondonNews) January 28, 2020

You heard the Man.

Nice of them to remember it’s happening (after taking the time to ask a Labour leadership contender about immigrants).

Why is it green w/ a yellow tongue?

why is it exhaling bubbles? we may never know

Oh my god that's freaking hilarious

Why is it green w/ a yellow tongue?

It's an Irish bulldog that supports West Ham United. It's a metaphor.

BBC Alba can stay as long as they keep showing competitive sheep herding

https://i.postimg.cc/TwchPkh7/FE086-F10-B84-B-495-B-8-EB3-D7-ACF662-E459.jpg

Oh man I used to love a bit of "One Man and His Dog"

I like Border Collies a lot and they are probably the strangest and most indefatigable breed of working dogs. Someone I talk to with two of them says even when he takes them on 10 mile treks they will be making subtle hints like dropping the dog lead in front of his chair to do it all again, within a couple of hours!

We had the loveliest border collie when I was a kid. RIP ;_;

450 jobs going in BBC News, probably not Laura K though

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/bbc-announces-450-jobs-will-go-in-newsroom-shake-up

BBC News now easily outclassed by ITN apparently

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51300799

you say this but
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPeE9UGX4AAkJdN?format=jpg&name=large

He doesn't even own a croissant

I can't really see what Peston is saying here.

I don't like him btw. Think he was OK in 2008 before he was over-promoted.

He's saying that he cannot step outside of his own privilege to report from a neutral unbiased position. However he says it in such a cluelessly privileged way that it suggests he has little sense of what direction reality even lies in.