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Is BBC News getting worse?
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It used to seem really educated and informed, lots of politics and the like, recently there seems to be a lot of tabloidy stuff in there (this is quite hard to put into words, so excuse me ), like having piss-poor puns as the headlines and such. There was a satirical piece on wild cats in britain as well, where it said things like 'The lynx is still living there today. Stuffed and mounted.' And I can just tell the journalist wanted to write "LMAO!!!" after that, or something.
Just seems more noise than news at the minute. Seems a shame
Just seems more noise than news at the minute. Seems a shame
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itv news doesnt seem to spring out at me as a channel that uses loads of puns, unless im missing the point
Erm, BBC is still probably the best news on TV though.
But yeah, i've even noticed grammatical and spelling errors on it these days.
I'd sooner learn about current affairs from what 8 year old viewers text into Newsround, than from ITV's "news" "reporting". Utter shit.
I wish their newsreaders would sit the fuck down, too. That 'Pulse' thing at lunchtime has GOT TO GO, as well, I swear only the most cretinous idiots call in their views. :rolleyes:
I have a big soft spot for the BBC 6 o'clock news, I must say. Look North is a thing for north-easterners to be proud of, too, especially when compared to the shit that passes for regional news in the north-west (and I want to be Carol Malia when I grow up).
Has anyone noticed the difference between BBC1 main news bulletins and those of BBC News 24? It's interesting to see they often have difference headline-topping stories. I guess it's down to who is the editor/producer of what channel...
Has anyone seen the news bulletins on BBC Three? They interrupt all programming every hour for 30 seconds of news, 20 seconds of which is talking about George Michael's cat or something.
Alternative and independent press is where youll find the last vestiges of true "investigative" reporting.
I have mentioned before that BBC World isnt like BBC here, yes its crap, but thats not reflective of the news coverage here.
Umm...I somehow doubt that the BBC is all that busy catering to the sensitivities of their corporate advertisers - they don't have any.
Translation - "The only people who agree with me are on the internet."
They do in the US, Clan only sees the American crap re-run channel and judges that (rightly) as being crap.
Actually BB, I see the cable provided BBC World right here in Brussels and its still crap. Even the so called "Hardtalk" is the biggest piece of status quo-serving BS I have seen from a supposed "in-depth analysis" programme.
I do have BBC1 and 2 as well but frankly, their international news coverage still falls far short of what legitimate investigative reporting should be.
In my view all televised news has descended to the lowest common denominator of santisied drivel rather than being the watchdog for the people that press and media were meant to be. Today, they are all too busy protecting those they should be challenging and exposing relentlessly to be more than purveyors of misinformation.
I personally only watch tv news, and that very occasionally, to determine what they AREN'T saying.
Apparently they've been losing viewers at an alarming rate since their latest revamp... perhaps the public has got tired of all the flying logs, sound effects, rolling cameras, dramatic giant screens on the background covering up for the depth the programme lacks...
Quite how anyone with half a brain can call a state TV channel or any of the so called "commercial" TV channels (which will lose their licence the second they step out of line remember) unbiased is totally beyond me.
If anything better than the beeb manages to crop up then it's licence will get pulled, simple as. So we have the same organisation that gives the beeb it's licence fee and charter also deciding whch of it's competeors can enter the field.
Utterly ludicrous.
The best.
Sky News is atrocious imo.
The one news habit I really have to break is staying up to point and laugh at The O'Reilly Factor, it's like crack.
They’re pretty terrible in a lot of ways though, definitely, especially since the relaunch – nowhere near being in the same league as the BBC.
Well, it would have headlines like "men in colour co-ordinated outfits kill other men in mufti - they say "it was for their own good". Mass murderer Tony Blair today claimed against all factual evidence that the "british people" backed him and his sadistic cult, known as "the labour party", who claim they have a link that science has so far failed to verify.
In other news, the value of the money that the "state" cult uses violence to make you use fell by 0.25% this week, making sure you will live in penury in your old age.
This just in, I can hear booted feet and eerk! >...........
:rolleyes: Says he who’s bizarre conspiracy theorist sources include amateur homemade websites with anonymous authors and well truly wild instances of defamation.
At the moment the conspiracy theorists wouldn’t be able to set up their own TV channel here to air their wild – yet frequently amusing lies due to regulations on impartiality and integrity affecting TV, but tbh I really wouldn’t have a problem Clan with laxing the regulations so you’re loony friends can set up their own channel and we can all have a chuckle at them.