An oddity about giving up on BBC news is how cheap it now seems. Ludicrously expensive salaries for the talking heads and enormous production costs sending overpaid people to stand around in wellies every time there is a flood, but the content still feels absurdly cheap.
Cheap in the sense that analysis is superficial, presentation is shallow and one-sided and always we are given the dull, fashionable pap, never the imaginative sideways look at other possibilities. It's the endless diet of pap which has done for the BBC. Pap should not be eye-wateringly expensive.
Smaller and more agile media outfits, semi-professional bloggers and vloggers and even knowledgeable amateurs often give the world a better, wittier, more imaginative, more detailed angle on current affairs. They seem able to cut the grossly padded production costs to virtually nothing yet still come up with better analysis which is less misleading, more reliable and easier to confirm.
The barrier to entry has fallen to the floor and this is where the fake news angle originates – the big boys want it raised again. It’s too late for that and nobody cares.
Smaller and more agile media outfits, semi-professional bloggers and vloggers and even knowledgeable amateurs often give the world a better, wittier, more imaginative, more detailed angle on current affairs. They seem able to cut the grossly padded production costs to virtually nothing yet still come up with better analysis which is less misleading, more reliable and easier to confirm.
The barrier to entry has fallen to the floor and this is where the fake news angle originates – the big boys want it raised again. It’s too late for that and nobody cares.
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It's difficult for the gravy train passengers to change - the train doesn't stop very often, and when it does, more get on than get off.
There's the absurdity of each BBC channel sending their own separate teams, usually ten strong, to cover news events. Most, which may be little more than a road accident, need no more than one reporter and one camera operator.
Sports events seem to attract even more dung beetles, sorry, 'reporters', out from their cosy overpaid nests. Olympics in particular 'require' 100s of these scum.
While the BBC ploughs on into its inevitable demise of being de-funded, it could start to make amends by reporting facts - news - not biased opinions. But it probably will not - see my first paragraph.
The BBC are (happily!) in a very difficult position within the news and entertainment market. They know all too well that, compared with newer outfits like the bloggers and the zappy independents - they are flat-footed and dull. So they have to adopt sensationalism and emotional stimulation in order to look relevant. Lots of pointless human interest stories, mainly about relationships, illness, and supposed injustices committed against black trannies, etc. On the other hand, they still try to cling on to being the voice of Middle England, and to claim special authority in weighty matters that unite the nation.
That's just not credible, though. Patrician attitudes might have been accepted coming from the likes of Lord Reith, but I don't take kindly to being told what to think about polyamorists in Wales, or being talked down to over Brexit. Mysteries from on high might have cowed us, but unfortunately for the BBC we have been educated, and we can see through their nonsense.
Take it out and shoot it. Don't let it suffer and lose all its dignity...
Wait until just before the USA Presidential election.
Mass exodus from Salford and london.
Probably BBC Scotland will have a team there.
It is hardly likely to come up to the standard of the previous election.
The surprise of the last one was delightful, not because I support The Donald, but just to see the gob- smacked faces
As a blatant attempt to relieve the fingers on an ancient Remington typewriter, Scrobs hereby reprints one of the most amazing posts he made last week, on the fabulous Biased BBC blog! It really is a total masterpiece, and of course, is available on DVD, VHS etc for a small fee of around a thousand splonders, to anyone who can be arsed to read it!
Here it is, in its fullery...
"Further to the imaginative, and even – dare I say it – precocious, yet cognitive intervention from your good friend, Scrobs, a few days back, here are some more home truths, and their erudite descriptions…
1) Mish-Mash – rhyming slang for the usual car-crash ‘interview’ by Mishal H.
2) Stayt of the art – rhyming slang for an olfactory malfeasance on Toady.
3) Sarky – a reference to Naga’s usual, immature, rather dull attitude (‘Nagasaki’).
4) Susanna – the bra size needed to get a few more drooling, slack-jawed, gullible lads watching some idiot make some inane comment.
5) Pest-on – a perfectly good reason to switch off an annoying and whining ‘interviewer’.
6) Dimbleby – the leftie frown apparent on a presenter’s face when he/she/it/zed/bummer realises that their personal, leftie ideals (and future money), have been trashed by the normal, hard-working general public.
7) Anusol – Piers Morgan (old army joke about hardwood being used for a rifle stock, like in ‘piles for piers’ not being for ‘hemorrhoids for the harseholes of the haristocracy’).
8) Cutting one’s toenails – a euphemism for not watching Nick Robinson. (That was the one I referred to earlier, and Senora O’Blene and I have dined out on its evocation several times since, once with a fairly decent Mersault, possibly not the best year as there were small isolated thunderstorms close to the periphery of the vineyard, but a jolly nice try)"!
Ed - I agree and yet the BBC could have made a better stab at adapting to the internet. Maybe the mass redundancies are too unpalatable or maybe the BBC really does think it can survive as it is.
Sam - "Take it out and shoot it. Don't let it suffer and lose all its dignity..."
That's it, the BBC is losing its dignity and drastic action would be kinder in the longer term. It could change quite suddenly as BBC staff see the writing on the wall. I hope so because it has all gone on too long.
Doonhamer - yes the surprise of the last election was delightful and to my mind that's a good reason to support Trump. I'd like to see it again.
Scrobs - excellent, I must visit the Biased BBC blog more often. I have one or two similar sites bookmarked but don't visit them often enough.
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