The BBC

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Serious sheffield united hooligans

.....................strike me down..............

Ipswich Total Violence

(OK, I made that up and in fact when we supposedly had a "firm" they decided to call themselves The Spanners, why they did is anyone's guess)

BBC blamed for attacks on Poles

wtf @ that guy

Tories, eh?

Sub-Passantino at best

At 6 feet 8½ inches (204 cm), Kawczynski is believed to be the tallest MP ever to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

But the average height of doors in Westminster is six feet eight and now he wants ministers to take account of an increasingly tall UK population.

"Being officially a giant myself... you want to raise things which pertain to yourself and people like you," he said.

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Damn those liberal elites...

Britain is the country of choice for many 'feckless' Poles

'Polish Borat' claims groping women is normal in Eastern Europe

IMMIGRANTS TO BLAME FOR SURGE IN CRIME SAYS POLICE CHIEF

Also I'm sure he said all this a couple of months ago somewhere else. Why has it come up again now?

Oh, yes, in the Independent.

He'll be blaming the BBC for attacks on giants next

I'd guess he has a point if he's talking about Tory voters mouthing off on the mid-morning phone-ins on local stations like BBC Radio Shropshire etc.

Conservative Friends of Poland

Like Neville Chamberlain, he means?

Pretty sure it's mostly Channel 4 running the anti-Polish stuff. But it is tricky spotting the difference between Panorama and the Völkischer Beobachter most weeks.

EXCLUSIVE: Max Mosley confirmed as new Panorama presenter.

A step too far, this is causing as much kerfuffle as when the moved women's hour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/change_to_international_pages.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/14/ben-bradshaw-bbc-management

the bbc does seem amazingly inept at covering its arse. it is kind of a symptom of a wider elite-class self-aggrandizement that the likes of byford and thompson think they deserve mad money, but it's still going to come back to bite them.

beeb has kind of an impossible job in dealing with its critics, since they simultaneously claim the licence fee isn't justified because the bbc isn't populist enough and that it isn't justified because it doesn't provide enough specialised content that the commercial sector won't touch. i can't see that sharing the licence fee does anything to help except spreading it thinner.

agree that bbc bosses don't help the cause though.

is it really going to be dismantled?
― D Aziz (esquire1983), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:03 (5 years ago)

Possibly, if - when - the Tories get in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/wed-abolish-bbc-trust-hunt

Has to be a troll:

Pay per view BBC news would allow the lefties to view their own biased news reports while the rest of us could choose ITV news for more impartial reporting.

this business about "damaging commercial competitors" really pisses me off. we should be celebrating the fact that the BBC creates quality products and services for "free", not requiring it to dumb down its offerings so that something inferior and expensive can maintain market share.

Whenever that comment is made, it is usually voiced by someone with vested interests eg. Murdoch. In America, Murdoch goes after Obama but here he goes after impartial news media. This should be a good compass for anyone wishing to locate the centre of power in any given country. Who does Murdoch go after in, say, China?

yeah, you do wonder whether this is the quid for the quo of The Sun's support.

tories don't need any outside encouragement to go after the bbc, tbh.

So is the Mail anti-Beeb purely because of DMGT's regional newspapers? Or is there something else, aside from Jonathan Ross and the telly tax?

it's ideological - the bbc is full of lefties.

not only that, the whole concept of the BBC is lefty.

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

Patrick Moore is very right-wing on immigration too, unfortunately.

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!

I dunno if there's a word for the kind of lightweight talk radio DJs that take up way too much air time on 5 Live and presumably other stations, where the show is just blathering about fuck all interspersed with no mark media celebs and unfunny anecdotes and humblebrags from the listeners

example: Scott Mills and Chris Clark, Laura Whitmore, god knows how many more

anyway, what the fuck is that about? does any sentient being enjoy this shit?

Chris Stark, not Clark

Stark and Mills have been on Radio 1 in the afternoon for more than 10 years. this autumn they’re moving to Radio 2. A lot of people like them. It’s extremely “LadBible” radio.

Actual soccer coverage and discussion on 5live is now also suffused with "Banter" in a way it was not in the days of Mike Ingham.

I dislike it greatly, though I have a higher threshold for Chris Sutton than some do - finding him, in his way and on his day, quite shrewd and dry.

Sutton and Savage are as bad as each other, playing the Talk Sport controvery trolling games

Savage has made 606 (which was already bad) completely unbearable. I remember about 13 years ago when he first co-presented it with Neil Warnock and he was so awful I thought he'd never get invited back again.

Savage is an utter moron, which Sutton isn't. Both unbearable, of course.

I haven't listened to it in ages but World Football Phone-In used to great, mainly because Tim Vickery is intelligent and very knowledgeable rather than fucking trying to kill us all with bantz

Dotun Adebayo is quite annoying though, but not enough to ruin the show

i am annoyed at the bbc because i went to watch the final of sewing bee on the pvr and got an hour of tennis instead. because 14 hours of tennis on one day isn't enough.

Sutton is bad on 606 and plays a very bad role of trying to provoke people, with Savage, who is dire.

But Sutton on other programmes presents a somewhat different persona. In World Cup 2018 he even had a schtick of learning facts about the cultural history of Russian cities.

Vickery is good in various ways. Think he is, oddly, a THFC fan, and also some kind of socialist.

He probably is a socialist because he grew up in Hemel Hampstead! Andy Brassell is decent as well, but he's another one who offers thoughtful observations rather than idiotic controversy and banter. The cricket coverage on 5 live is pretty good, but with football they feel like they need to do it *this* way.

another very fine Spurs fan being interview by Nick Robinson on R4 at the moment. joking obv

Brassell is a Wimbledon fan, who are a much more likable club than Spurs!

Best of BBC iPlayer

Young Brits selling Dubai real estate

DUBAI HUSTLE

A career change with a difference...

ROOKIE COPS

Just reading this piece (by Robin) on Tim Westwood but managing to touch much else.

https://shirazsocialism.wordpress.com/2022/07/31/tim-westwood-how-should-the-left-respond/

Somewhat baffled by the reference to Tony Blackburn, who sounds exactly like what he is, an ex-public schoolboy who is a professional radio DJ, and always has done

Actually John Peel is a much better comparison, with the manufactured accent and the somewhat dubious sexual history.

Well the comparison to Blackburn is to do with the pushing of a strand of black music, and the early career in pirate stations but I get that it isn't a perfect fit.

What I must say to the mans and dems is the thing about the Westwood after party is the ladies

Westwood was more like Savile in the sense he seemed to be constantly in public confession mode, but in that bizarre posh English cunt pretending to be a homeboy from the projects syntax. But how the fuck did this cunt last so long? I grew up with white people who talked a bit like him. But they were mostly from a council estate parts that were like 30-40 % afro-caribbean and some of them only looked white but were part of extended black families or the kind of people who might just knock you out if you start talking about cultural appropriation to them! But this wanker got a free pass not just from the bbc, but from the UK black communities, from UK/US rap artists ... just how the fuck did he manage to pull this act off for so long - even before it came out he was a predatory paedophile.

That is such a weird article: it’s like someone mostly mastered the cultural tools and framework for making a reasoned long-form argument, but uses them to veer off into the strangest tangents, and take in personal long-standing assumptions, arguments and grievances that the author has had over the years.

3/10 - please try again, and do not deviate from the exam question set by calzino just above.

sorry but I can barely answer exam questions, never mind ask them! But I'm a whizz at quick crosswords and kakuru

radio 4 killing me with their trailers. especially the one for a mindfulness podcast which features some woman with a nails down chalkboard voice inducing in me the very opposite feeling to mindfulness.

if it's the same voice I'm thinking of it's how I imagine Laura Barton would sound like when talking about borrowing a friend's 2nd/3rd home in the lake district for a few weeks to go on an inner journey of self-discovery only to find she had everything she ever wanted at her posh flat in London.

wait isn't that like 80 percent of Radio 4 voices?

absolutely is, but when promoting mindfulness in that voice there should be a trigger warning for people who might have a raging predisposition for class war!

i think they just dose us with Ian McMillan in case of emergency

I fucking hate that Barnsley twat as well!

even more tbh

90% of people in Barnsley don't even talk like that cunt

I once worked somewhere with a Barnsley twat with an affected accent like him and this other Barnsley person assured me it's 90% affected and pure bullshit.

I'd forgotten that guy existed tbh.

lol i love you calz

I heard him on the radio t'other day praising Sonny Rollins and i was SHOUTING back: fuck off cunt! You aren't permitted to like good people when you have a fake accent!

he was the hired speaker at our end of year college rally once, alls i can say it was a refreshing break from the cunts with powerpoints

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/14/offshore-firm-links-bbc-chair-to-sanction-hit-russian-nickel-king

Emily...you are still a Tory...but thank you for this.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/24/emily-maitlis-says-active-tory-party-agent-shaping-bbc-news-output?

On Friday night HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU? will run a special programme called HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR BORIS: A SPECIAL TRIBUTE.

there has also been a weekly saturday R4 program on Boris throughout this month and the only thing that has me changing stations faster is The Archers.

the title is so fucking chummy. encapsulates how the BBC has viewed him for over a decade. wot laughs ho ho.

just the whole refer to him by his first name is such special treatment. don't remember a Teresa edition of this satirical program i haven't watched for decades.

Jokes about him being an oversexed skirtchaser who couldn't keep it in his trousers were especially favoured iirc.

He owes the BBC a lot.

Please retweet

I'd like to apologise for earlier tweets (now deleted) responding to Gary Lineker. I should have shown more consideration to a BBC colleague - as per the BBC’s social media guidelines.

— Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) August 30, 2022

Maitlis is a long way from being a Tory. xps

if you're gonna tell us she's a Blairite, that isn't a long way

she was effectively a Tory campaigner during the Corbyn era, if she's deeply fallen out with them as a career option recently then I don't applaud this. Saying Maitlis isn't Tory is like saying Lineker or G Neville aren't Tories, without explaining what differentiates them from Tories (other they they pretend to be nice) then it's a dubious statement to post.

She’s a little bit terfy IIRC.

She's going that way, yes.