More quality journalism from the BBC
Posted by Richard Lowe on 11 November 2008 - 2:19pm.
Lord “Reef” would be so proud.
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Standards are at an all-time low
That is truly appalling.
And only the other day I read in a newspaper 'guest dined on champagne and canopies'. That was rather hard to swallow.
Do remember seeing an article...
... claiming that former Blackburn manager Brian Kidd was suffering from prostrate cancer.
I imagine
His doctor told him to get some rest.
If it's not auto corrected by spell checker
the youth of today are buggered.
I bet you actually typed
buttered?
Oh for a spell check
that added expletives.
Why do I suddenly find myself
remembering Last Tango In Paris, Mr Fox?
Whenever I change the channel on my TV...
...I get a little graphical overlay that stays on the screen for a few seconds and tells me the name of the programme I'm watching.
On Sunday I switched over to Sky Three and what was unmistakeably footage of the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London. Unfortunately the on-screen digital caption was already displaying the name of the programme to follow:- Crash Test Dummies.
God bless....
...the comprehensive education system. If they bring that in over here in Northern Ireland, I'm moving to France.
oi!
Many people here managed to achieve a decent education by dint of the comp system, I'd aver
And 99% of people at the BBC...
...are public school educated. Unless they are a children's TV presenter who need to be down wiv the kidz.
Dear Daily Mail,
Well spotted, it should have said 'reefers'.
They are of course the 21st Manchester Spliff Battalion.
Dear old “Auntie”
It’s hard to think of a more self-important, self-aggrandizing institution than the BBC, always banging on pompously about its “excellence”. Yet as soon as it’s criticised it starts squealing about being picked on by that catch-all demon “the Daily Mail”.
That screen-grab was forwarded to me by a BBC employee who, like most rational people, finds it rather sad and alarming that the BBC employs people who can neither spell nor (if we presume it was being spelt phonetically) say the word “wreath” properly to man the Aston 7.
Don’t quite see where the bloody Daily Mail comes into it.
I don't care where you send it...
...but please please please forward it on to a national newspaper. The Guardian would have a field day with it, ditto the News Review of the Sunday Times, ditto the London Evening Standard, ditto the Vanessa Phelps show on (yes) BBC London...
The BBC for all it's faults
The BBC for all it's faults is still an amazing organisation. Consider the amount of broadcasting output it creates each day. It makes errors, it shouldn't, but it does.
What really pisses me off is this culture of nick-picking generated by the Murdochs and The Mail.
It's very, very easy to sit in judgement, so yes, the posting reminded me of something I'd read in the 'popular' press.
Talk Radio host John Gaunt was suspended earlier in the week for calling a contributor a nazi.
Has the Mail called for his head? No. If he was on the BBC they would've. Endlessly.
The vultures are circling and no doubt, over the coming years the BBC will be stripped back until we're left with nothing.
You never miss your water 'til your well runs dry.
Took me ages to work that out
I was busy wondering why the bloke in the middle had a giant arrowhead stuck in his bonce...
Then it hit me. They spellded Sennataff rong!
It seems
the BBC cost cutting at News 24 is really starting to bite. Private Eye again mentions today that the whole channel is full of errors like this.
Also it points to increasing legal actions against the Daily Express after they have got rid of 80 odd sub-editors and have now got hacks going 'straight into best.'
(It really is £1.50 well spent.)
80 odd sub-editors...
Well, they're all odd, aren't they?
Surely
The fewer sub editors you have the fewer mistakes there will be. Ask Giles Coren.
How dare you
end your post on an unstressed syllable?