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Small Axe: Lovers Rock is the best thing I've seen on the BBC in years

the reith lectures are frequently bad, but right now I'm in a very bad mood and want to string up Mark Carney on a gallows after hours of slow torture (as painful as his lame lecture feels like)

#1 is on markets & morals

i'm guessing he takes a different tack on this than i would

I went through a period of some kind of locked in syndrome where I felt powerless to stop myself from listening and was hating every one of his words, because I'm having a stressful day, but then I found the strength to change channels and feel much better now!

carney's a comically shit interview. the gushing presenter is like 'what was the high point of your tenure at the bank of england??' and he's like 'to be frank, i really don't think of my time there that way, my time was spent assessing leading indicators, deliberating courses of action, communicating with stakeholders'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/02/bbc-journalists-twitter-study-reporters

Our findings on the Labour party factions confirm claims by Corbyn supporters that the former leader’s critics in the party were given inordinate attention by the BBC. This is underscored by the fact that Corbyn himself – who had by far the largest Twitter following of any MP – was followed by fewer BBC journalists than either his predecessor, Ed Miliband, then deputy leader Tom Watson, or Change UK’s leading light, Chuka Umunna.

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I enjoyed the Margaret MacMillan one, even though like a lot of historians her takes on modern politics are utter dross. But at least she's never such a dull corporate mediocrity as this mother!

though the idea that quant is more objective or w/e is incredibly specious its a pose that seems to hold a lot of water with people generally so imo that is a pretty good approach from mills et al in that article u posted nashwan

"since the successful repudiation of socialism, could we still learn anything from socialism" or something was one of the questions to Carney and jeez the response was violence to my ears.

since we know there is no magic money tree, is there a particular word that describes the act of asking a fatuous question with the aim of asserting its fallacious premise?

I was in a tunnel of rage - but I'm sure that was the crux of it!

since we know there is no magic money tree, is there a particular word that describes the act of asking a fatuous question with the aim of asserting its fallacious premise?

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 11:29 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

broadcast journalism

like I said when they had MacMillan on reith lectures at least she brought something to the table and I already respect her because book about the treaty of Versailles is a masterpiece, if not agreeing with her politics. But this objectionable non-entity is a waste of everyone's time, just a bang average corporate twonk with fuck all to say.

lol previous reith lectures include Grayson Perry so it can always be worse.

omg the perry lecture is the only one i have heard (ten minutes of which was enough)

lol amongst all the bbc related outrages i missed the one where they launched a covid memorial red ribbon project on fn WORLD AIDS DAY

lol they are either amazing trolls or v bad at their jobs (i suspect a combination of the two)

one of the programs they still haven't managed to fuck up yet is In Our Time, but I dread to think who will take over when the good Bragg retires. Going by how Emma Barnett getting Woman's Hour is the general direction they are going in then it will be the end of an era for me.

can we blame covid for the bbc christmas eve / day / boxing day schedules?

i'm generally a fan of animation but that seems like A LOT, and all very similar in style (and almost all things i've seen)

the two things i'm looking forward to are both on boxing day and both originated on bbc2.

Mince pies at the ready! Here’s your Christmas schedule for @BBCOne… 🥧 pic.twitter.com/fl2KZQ9hv4

— BBC One (@BBCOne) December 1, 2020

Most of the Christmas filming happens in summer usually, and most work was still shutdown then, yeah.

The new Zog and Coco will be welcome additions to our TVR. It's been a tough year for production.

https://ukchristmastv.weebly.com/confirmed2020.html

^ provisional list for bbcs, itv, ch4 and 5

> How Healthy is Your Gut?

festive

i hate that 3d animation stuff

idg it there's this weird thing where it reaches for verisimilitude in a really weird and arbitrary way like why do these cartoon characters have visible pores

1Xtra is a treasure

one of the programs they still haven't managed to fuck up yet is In Our Time, but I dread to think who will take over when the good Bragg retires. Going by how Emma Barnett getting Woman's Hour is the general direction they are going in then it will be the end of an era for me.

― calzino, Thursday, December 3, 2020

This is a sound analysis of how badly things are going. In our time.

NV <3

it has gotten better now that ben cooper isn't propping up its listening by making it relentlessly mainstream enough to simulcast half its shows on radio 1

Yeah I didn't used to be a big fan but this year I've had it on a lot, lots of great music and the ratio of tunes to chat is much bettee

I approve the imago-baiting of having Villa v Palace live BBC1 on Boxing day, but seems to trash the no-live-tv-games-at-3pm-saturday rule

i didn't screenshot it, but i looked at the bbc and daily mail news websites last night and it was the bbc that had a triumphant brexit headline while the DM was focussed on mutant strains and death rates going back above 1000

HNY

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/06/new-bbc-chairman-richard-sharp-donated-more-than-400000-to-conservative-party/

everything is fine...

Predictable start for Woman's Hour under Emma Barnett, the desperate attention seeking non-entity Shriver filling the air with racism and bigotry, another guest Kelechi, making anti-Semitic comments relating to Weinstein and Me Too. so fucking predictable.

it's shocking the amount of platform the Beeb gives to irrelevant psychopaths like Shriver or Toby Young, there really is no rationale for it

there was an apology for Kelechi's comment, which I've not heard in context, but not no comment on Shriver's foul stream of the usual bigoted invective, she get's the same kind of free pass as Toby Young.

i always get the feeling the “rationale” is a mixture of people like toby young being highly available and a lot of the time more relevant people being much less so. i can see quite easily the situation where they’re saying “come on, we need someone to pitch the other view, who have you got in your phone book we can get in?” “oh just get toby young he’s always around and can be relied on to give good value for money” etc.

am i missing out on the regular anarcho-communists they have on these things?

the two sides usually seem to be "maybe the state should protect people a bit from the worst excesses of bigotry and/or poverty, if it's not really affecting me" versus "kill all out groups, let god sort them out"

i do think ash sarkar would be an example of someone who is available elsewhere (but probably at a different tier) - whatever Matthew Wright is now, for instance (is he still going? god that program was garbage apart from Candice calling the covid approach correctly in the face of a med health expert). Maybe Owen Jones is the Toby Young equivalent?

They should just take the easy path and employ Toby Jones full time to just churn out random controversy.

(and for what it's worth i think owen jones is fine, but i bet he really fucking boils some people's piss so they go what HIM. AGAIN.)

Predictable start for Woman's Hour under Emma Barnett, the desperate attention seeking non-entity Shriver filling the air with racism and bigotry, another guest Kelechi, making anti-Semitic comments relating to Weinstein and Me Too. so fucking predictable.

― calzino, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 5:31 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this didn't happen afaik. kelechi didn't appear on air because she heard barnett bringing up her past anti- semitic comments and making it clear she would challenge her on them.

Matthew Wright is now Jeremy Vine. Yes, I think being reliably controversial is what it's all about, which partly explains the love for Spiked among programme makers on both Sky and the BBC - Joanna Williams is very much flavour of the month these days.

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ah thanks for clearing up my garbled take, I was reading it from other responses.

I know this is the wrong line of attack, but I still think someone whose wealthy upbringing was funded by exploitation of sex-workers and sex-trafficking shouldn't be let anywhere near Woman's Hour.

Barnett does have strong feelings about AS though. I recall her on 5 live telling a caller that even if a potential Corbyn govt would improve their life, it would be an evil and selfish trade-off with the threat to UK Jews he presented.

What is Ash Sarkar's tier?

She is more intelligent and incisive than anyone who has been on Woman's Hour in the last 5 years.

maybe but that's a low bar

without making any excuses it's pretty clear that antisemitism is only a story when it's coming from people who are black and/or muslim and/or left wing. this is being used quite successfully as a (white) nationalist wedge issue

Emma Barnett is Jewish but IIRC she wasn’t a fan before Corbyn got swift boated as antisemitic by all the toxic centrists.

Would be happy with people bringing up her pimp dad and her acceptance of same on the many occasions Me Too and sex work get discussed on WH.

What is Ash Sarkar's tier?

She is more intelligent and incisive than anyone who has been on Woman's Hour in the last 5 years.

in case Americans are interested in how the BBC's political editor is covering the attempted coup attempt in the Capitol https://t.co/d6v8n1tv8v

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) January 6, 2021