[Bones McCoy]

i assume they're unfamilar with the Scots/Irish.Shakesperian use of Jax(x) / Jakes.

[Bones McCoy]

The amazed young executives point out that their expertise is more in the line of cakes

Clearly a leftist Ambush.

[Oboogie]

More ammunition for Dorries.

[Bones McCoy]

Dozens!!!

[Andy McDandy]

"Took to Twitter" can be condemned to a blistering death once my glorious reign begins.

[Cyclist]

There must be some really infantile adults out there if this is how they react when told a truth they don't like.

And this:

Countryfile is always trying to ram nonsense down people's throats

1. Just because you don't like hearing something doesn't automatically make it nonsense.
2. If Countryfile really is that bad just stop watching it. There's no punishment for doing so. Viewing is not compulsory.

[Andy McDandy]

Unless the person saying that is a farmer, I guess what they're trying to say is "I JUSS WANNA LOOKIT NICE COWS! NUNNA DIS POLITICS DOIN ME NUT!!".

[Boiler]

Good job none of these idiots listen to "Farming Today" then... they'd never be off Twatter then.

Just wait until Ego Musk gets hold of Twatter and seeks to redress its left-wing balance - first the return of The Donald, who next?

[RedSparrows]

What do they want?

The glorious victory that is Brexit never to be mentioned again?

Come on people, have some integrity...

Oh

[Nigredo]

More ammunition for Dorries.

Fenton's blog may have deteriorated into merely repeating what he finds on Twitter but at least he actually links to the tweets being mentioned.

[Bones McCoy]

There must be some really infantile adults out there if this is how they react when told a truth they don't like.

And this:

Countryfile is always trying to ram nonsense down people's throats

1. Just because you don't like hearing something doesn't automatically make it nonsense.
2. If Countryfile really is that bad just stop watching it. There's no punishment for doing so. Viewing is not compulsory.

Also 3: Fuck right off Trolls.

[Boiler]

Had a look to see if any of the papers had linked to Tweets but all I got was a load of gossip about Helen Skelton and her partner splitting up.

[kreuzberger]

I shall download that to listen to in the car...

I heard the first few minutes and was repulsed by the voices that I used to hear in the chairlift queues at Méribel. I'll give it another go.

[Cyclist]

Whoops!

The BBC has agreed to pay £30,000 in damages to a British Bangladeshi Labour councillor after it mixed her up with Apsana Begum in a news item about the MP facing housing fraud charges.

Pictures of Liza Begum at an event to launch Labour’s 2019 race and faith manifesto were broadcast on BBC London News during an exchange on 29 October 2020, in which the BBC London political correspondent said: “This is Apsana Begum … she faces three charges of dishonesty.”

Although the correspondent said that Apsana Begum, who is also British Bangladeshi, had vigorously contested the “false and malicious allegations” – she would later be acquitted – the BBC admitted that the meaning of the BBC One broadcast was that “there are reasonable grounds to suspect that [Liza Begum] had engaged in housing fraud”.

A statement read out in court on Tuesday said: “The misidentification caused Ms Begum particular distress because it seemed another example of the BBC, and the media generally, misidentifying BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people, which fed into racist tropes.

“She was particularly distressed that the confusion was of two women of colour appearing at a race and faith event, and that nobody in the BBC corrected it before the film of her was broadcast.”...


https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2022/ ... ity-mix-up

A mistake worthy of Nadine Dorries.

[Nigredo]

[Abernathy]

What do they want?

The glorious victory that is Brexit never to be mentioned again?

Come on people, have some integrity...

Oh

Yes, very odd. It’s almost as if they are quite ashamed of having voted for the Brexit con.

[davidjay]

To be fair, you don't get paid for a lot of news clips. It always used to be that as a general rule of thumb, if you had to leave the house you got the going rate.

[Bones McCoy]

Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison.

You would expect such a long running story to receive a high billing on the BBC news website.
I had to drill down to the second page of "USA and Canada" to find it.

Front page has some significant news, but also a lot of trivial tittle tattle.

[Boiler]

Posted without comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62161868

A new feature will be the BBC investing in "visualising" programmes based on popular radio shows, starting with the BBC Radio 5 Live Nicky Campbell programme, which will be broadcast on BBC Two on weekday mornings, as well as on the UK stream of the new channel.

[Youngian]

Posted without comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62161868

A new feature will be the BBC investing in "visualising" programmes based on popular radio shows, starting with the BBC Radio 5 Live Nicky Campbell programme, which will be broadcast on BBC Two on weekday mornings, as well as on the UK stream of the new channel.

That’s just installing a camera. Transposing a popular radio show into a TV format is a tricky business. Wogan tried bringing his morning wiffle to TV and it made no sense even to his fans. His successor Chris Evans sort of did more successfully.