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the BBC is useless!
« on: 08 December 2007, 21:42:20 »
Dramatic story about violent weather and 51 flood warnings on BBC website.  Any details?  No!  >:(

Didn't even say tonight or tomorrow.  Go to BBC weather, and there's no mention of the warnings at all!  :o

What is the BBC, a tabloid?  All emotion and no public benefit?  Glad to know that my TV license is being put to good use.  >:( >:(
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Re: the BBC is useless!
« Reply #1 on: 08 December 2007, 21:44:49 »
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Dramatic story about violent weather and 51 flood warnings on BBC website.  Any details?  No!  >:(

Didn't even say tonight or tomorrow.  Go to BBC weather, and there's no mention of the warnings at all!  :o

What is the BBC, a tabloid?  All emotion and no public benefit?  Glad to know that my TV license is being put to good use.  >:( >:(
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y

Thats the beeb for ya
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« Reply #2 on: 08 December 2007, 21:45:16 »
At the risk of being branded a regionalistic, anti-english, narrow minded Scot, please remember that the BBC, otherwise known as the London Broadcasting Estimate, still fails to recognise that there is anything north of the Watford Gap.....    Or east, south or west of the M25 layby, for that matter.  Anything reported weatherwise should be taken with a LARGE look out the window....   :D   :y
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« Reply #3 on: 08 December 2007, 21:47:24 »
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At the risk of being branded a regionalistic, anti-english, narrow minded Scot, please remember that the BBC, otherwise known as the London Broadcasting Estimate, still fails to recognise that there is anything north of the Watford Gap.....    Or east, south or west of the M25 layby, for that matter.  Anything reported weatherwise should be taken with a LARGE look out the window....   :D   :y
Yeah, I have noticed that outside the M25 might as well be another country, and not just for the BBC.  ::)
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« Reply #4 on: 08 December 2007, 21:48:27 »
the bbc is going down hill latley, and its not just the programming either.....

When i was chatting to Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) he was saying that the BBC has also cut back in staff in a BIG way. There is a royaltie departartment, which handles payment of Royalties to actors.

It used to have 80 members of staff, it now has 2.

It takes ages apprently for actors/staff to get their royalties... talking years here!
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« Reply #5 on: 08 December 2007, 21:52:22 »
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the bbc is going down hill latley, and its not just the programming either.....

When i was chatting to Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) he was saying that the BBC has also cut back in staff in a BIG way. There is a royaltie departartment, which handles payment of Royalties to actors.

It used to have 80 members of staff, it now has 2.

It takes ages apprently for actors/staff to get their royalties... talking years here!
No reason for them to do better I guess.

Rimmer is an icon!  :y
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« Reply #6 on: 08 December 2007, 21:53:53 »
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At the risk of being branded a regionalistic, anti-english, narrow minded Scot, please remember that the BBC, otherwise known as the London Broadcasting Estimate, still fails to recognise that there is anything north of the Watford Gap.....    Or east, south or west of the M25 layby, for that matter.  Anything reported weatherwise should be taken with a LARGE look out the window....   :D   :y

you got that right... weather's pretty damn good here, no wind, no rain, apart from the wet roads of earlier showers, and its actually not even cold out!!!!!
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« Reply #7 on: 08 December 2007, 21:58:31 »
 :)In the collective use the BBC ARE useless as oppose to IS. Just thought i'd politely point that out Broocie. Sorry but i'm a product of my upbringing!!!
       I've got a horrible feeling i'm about to be shot down in flames!!!!!!
             Engage grovel mode. :'(
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« Reply #8 on: 08 December 2007, 22:00:02 »
Seriously though, the BBC should be accused of public disturbance or something.  It is mind-bendingly irresponsible, especially as a national public news institution, to hype up natural disasters without providing hardly any guidance on which areas are at risk and when - not to mention what to do if you are in those areas!  They should be primarily providing the information, and secondarily using the emotional side to drive home the severity of the situation.  If it isn't a big deal, then they shoudn't be hyping it up so much!

Is this stuff really that hard?  :-?
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« Reply #9 on: 08 December 2007, 22:03:58 »
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:)In the collective use the BBC ARE useless as oppose to IS. Just thought i'd politely point that out Broocie. Sorry but i'm a product of my upbringing!!!
       I've got a horrible feeling i'm about to be shot down in flames!!!!!!
             Engage grovel mode. :'(
I was being impersonal and referring to the corporation/institution . . .  ::)

 :P :)
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« Reply #10 on: 08 December 2007, 22:09:54 »
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the bbc is going down hill latley, and its not just the programming either.....

When i was chatting to Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) he was saying that the BBC has also cut back in staff in a BIG way. There is a royaltie departartment, which handles payment of Royalties to actors.

It used to have 80 members of staff, it now has 2.

It takes ages apprently for actors/staff to get their royalties... talking years here!
No reason for them to do better I guess.

Rimmer is a SMEG HEAD :D  :y
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« Reply #11 on: 08 December 2007, 22:12:46 »
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In the collective use the BBC ARE useless as oppose to IS. ......

To be fair, I was indending the same.  

No offence intended but, every winter, the world according to the BBC will grind to a halt because of frost/snow/choose suitable weather option.  Unless you are north etc of the prequoted Watford Gap.....  Up our way, its the accepted norm that when it gets towards wintertime, the weather closes in and it gets more difficult to get to/from work and that some rural schools may need to close, early or otherwise.  And I have no doubt thast the same applies to other further flung areas of Engerland and beyond....

The tuppenceworth I was adding was that, contrary to popular conception, the whole of the UK - north, south, east and west - does not start and stop at the Beeb induced M25 boundary.....   ;)
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« Reply #12 on: 08 December 2007, 22:31:33 »
 :)Watford Gap? That's N'hants, i'm surprised Auntie Beeb made it past Newport Pagnell. ::)
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« Reply #13 on: 08 December 2007, 22:54:17 »
You may knock but look at the alternatives (TV producers) not looking good
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« Reply #14 on: 08 December 2007, 23:04:44 »
You don't seem to understand that the BBC has become an intensely political organisation. It has little interest in reporting general events like the weather, accidents, street crimes and so on. These things are left to the regional news programmes which, in the case of BBC London at least, are dropped with preference given to reporting on Ken Livingstone's latest stunts and any local stories to which there is a political angle.

The only time the BBC is interested in the weather is when an event is used to justify its politicised stance on Global Warming.

Used to be good. Now it's rubbish.  >:(  
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