The BBC

considering the contorted relationship to facts evident in some US fact-checking (notably the WaPo), I'm not crying that the BBC are not using it

Fact checking as a weapon is a terrible approach for a nominally unbiased public broadcaster and I agree there's no need for it. We don't need a home grown Daniel Dale spending every waking hour going "the lying man lied again!"

However, a bit more of "presented by x as fact without evidence" might have counted as responsible journalism during Brexit/Indyref.

there was some nonsense on R4 last night that still included the bit recorded with recently convicted rapist tory MP as an example of someone with a bolshy Brit attitude. Very classy lads

There could be a weekly TV programme where a panel of experts respond to events during the week and evaluate evidence etc.

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tuesday's repeat is The Black Stuff

I love that bit in The Black Stuff when the Social Security narc threatens to make a home visit on the character played by the late Michael Angelis, and he laconically replies "I'll bake a cake then". You'd get sanctioned for such lip now.

no one asked for this but the BBC announced it anyway because, much like the Rule Britannia song bullshit, this is meant to generate 1000 hours of people on TV complaining about the left. It’s meant to turn yer da an even darker shade of red. And lo, it’s already working pic.twitter.com/90HBr0Tb6a

— Dr. Strategy (car/cyclist forensics expert) (@inthesedeserts) November 19, 2020

Loads of people asked for it last year!

Worth it for this

Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite https://t.co/znPSuhkSo0

— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 19, 2020

oh ffs "Oliver's Army" is trending on Twitter because these gammon wankers have decided if they can't get their fix of homophobic words on the radio they'll search for racism.

(the n word has been censored in radio edits of "Oliver's Army" for years btw)

a scary song just got scarier

Can we please just have "Eat The Rich" by Motorhead as Christmas number one plz?

Worth it for this

Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite https://t.co/znPSuhkSo0
— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 19, 2020
― ailsa, Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:47 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's class

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.

xp

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

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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?