BBC bashing

shyamz · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:08 am

Messianic Trees wrote:

BBC portrayal of the elderly is 'insulting and token' (says the BBC in their own damning report)
Older people treated as the 'adorable idiot' on TV shows, say experts
Female stars chosen for their looks while older men such as Sir Bruce Forsyth chosen for their 'expertise', report concludes
Viewers say Ann Widdecombe, 64, chosen for Strictly Come Dancing 'for a laugh' even though she could 'hardly dance'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1l74FPfqj

More lazy BBC bashing, which even manages to crowbar in a reference to Downton Abbey:

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Among the positive role models for older generations were Dame Maggie Smith’s character in Downton Abbey ...

The mail often waves it's support the elderly flag when talking about certain topics, like health and respite care.

But why do adult people at a late stage in their lives still need role models? Is that not rather patronising?

And why do they assume that any female chosen to appear on a show must be a "token" female, rather than one there for the contribution she can make and nothing more?

I find that sexist, and I doubt there is anything they could do to prove otherwise.

MisterMuncher · **Joined:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:19 am **Posts:** 917

So, let me see. The BBC regularly and scrupulously look at their output to check they aren't fucking anyone over, and set in place plans to rectify it, and that's a bad thing?

Possession of self-awareness and a desire to improve aren't really on the Mail's to-do list, I suppose.

MacGuffin · **Joined:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:07 pm **Posts:** 427

Not a name to make light of! BBC News shows picture taken by viewer called Shanda Lear

Looks like a half-hearted attempt to laugh at the BBC and claim it has been taken in by a viewer pic from a 'Shanda Lear'.

But the font doesn't quite look like the BBC's and several comments point out Lutterworth has had no snow recently.

And another comment points to this: the original image on the Facebook wall of the guy who photoshopped it.

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

What an embarrassment for the Mail.

oboogie · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:49 pm

An interview with the hoaxer.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regr ... -fake-pic/

Timbo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:37 pm

I must admit, I have always found it a bit creepy on news shows (not just the BBC) where they team up an older man with a dolled-up slightly younger woman. It's all a bit 'dad and secretary'.

SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1622

Revoir will be sharpening his crayons. Disagreements between opposing rugby players picked up on the ref mic resulting in a torrent of f words live on BBC one at half five on a Saturday.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7318

SoulBoy wrote:

Revoir will be sharpening his crayons. Disagreements between opposing rugby players picked up on the ref mic resulting in a torrent of f words live on BBC one at half five on a Saturday.

Can't say I picked any up.
Excellent coverage of the scrappy game.
Knowledgable experts, helpful graphics (not overdone) and plenty of excitement.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:06 am

And no ad breaks.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:25 pm

Just accidentally caught a smidgin of an ITV show called "Dancing on Ice", which I usually avoid like the clap.

Now here's the thing: If I understand the history of these things correctly, the BBC had the (questionably) original idea of a show where your "celebs" competed in a bit of a dancing competition first. ITV then seems to have come along and observed that this format was quite successful, and must have thought long and hard about how they could get a similar success without just blatantly copying the format (god forbid).

How I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the idea was finally put to the ITV commissioning exec. A programme that is IDENTICAL to "Strictly Come Dancing"' except that everyone wears skates, and the dancing happens on an ice rink. In fact, we'll call it "Dancing on Ice". Brilliant.

I have formed the impression that this is not the only time that ITV has cunnningly ripped off a successful BBC format. Am I right?

Arnold · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:38 pm

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BBC newsreader demands dress allowance despite earning up to £100,000-a-year

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1liNReib7

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:55 pm

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Oh wake up people. She was interviewed by the Sunday Times about style, clothing etc. and made a comment in passing about the differences between men and women. She did not "call for" or "demand" an allowance. The day after, The Mail do their usual non-journalism job of lifting a line from someone elses article and twisting it to suit their anti-beeb rhetoric. I bet they didn't even PHONE Ms Hill for a comment. Journalism? If you're going to read this tosh for entertainment do yourself the favour of not believing it!

- Anna Price, Leicester, 7/2/2012 16:43 Rating (0)

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This is why women are not in parliament or on the boards of companies and are dismissed as airheads. Everything they utter is about their appearance and that is their main concern because, lets be honest, that is their genetic makeup.(excuse the pun). Women were designed to bring up children and that is their only role, they have infected the workplace and brought about the pansy health and safety laws that stop business in its tracks hence you need a certificate to do anything.

- fred, kent, 7/2/2012 16:06 Rating 2

oboogie · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:12 pm

And another bit of shite from Fred.

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Misogyny, absolute bull****, men have to work in the most hard working industries if they are able to get jobs at all in this feminized non job country. The only well paid jobs are in government and local authorities which are full of women sitting in heated offices. Ever see a woman dustman on minimum wage, no, ever see a woman on a construction project in freezing weather, no, ever see a woman doing any job that does not involve sitting and looking pretty, no. Name me a woman that has any standing in the business community from real life and she will be unique in that sphere. Nail bars and hairdressing are excluded because they are just pin money hobbies supported by a working man who has a proper business.
- fred, kent, 7/2/2012 16:37

Reading that, I console myself with the knowledge that Fred will die alone and a virgin.

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:28 pm

fred's still going:

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At least this forum gives the "ordinary" punter a chance to vent their spleen as opposed to the BBC which does not allow dissent and imposes a compulsory tax of £150 a year. Just a thought.

- fred, kent, 7/2/2012 17:10 Rating (0)

And he has company:

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How about some steel-toecap DMs and a Lumberjack shirt and a flat in Brighton?

- Steve Naive & the Playboys, The internets, 7/2/2012 16:38 Rating 40

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Why not wear her favourite pair of Dungarees to work? Put a Blouse on and change Ties like the rest of them.

- Steve Naive & the Playboys, The internets, 7/2/2012 15:48 Rating 3

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How much are a pair of dungarees these days anyway?

- Worcester Man, Worcester, England, 7/2/2012 16:08 Rating 5

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I think Jane is the "she " part of the partnership, so she would not look good in dungarees and footie socks now would she.

- Tommy Atkins, Canterbury Kent, 7/2/2012 16:05 Rating 7

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Dungarees would be fine for her (him?)

- Peter, London, 7/2/2012 15:55 Rating 32

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Could'nt she borrow some of her partners clothes ?

- paul foster, bognor regis UK, 7/2/2012 15:25 Rating 27

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Why doesn't she wear suits like her other colleagues? And get a pipe flat cap and slippers too?

- Hugh Jampton, ENGLAND (what's left of it?), 7/2/2012 14:24 Rating 26

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Simple, make them wear a suit and a tie.

- Diane , chester uk, 7/2/2012 6:36 Rating 84

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Fire the old bag.

- alan hyde, valencia, 7/2/2012 12:56 Rating 20

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get her fired ungrateful cow.

- save us, king arthur, 7/2/2012 13:16 Rating 15

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Women want...woman want. .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want .....women want ........woman want Do they ever give it a rest

- Eddie Johnn, In the real world, 7/2/2012 14:35 Rating 11

oboogie · **Posted:** Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:45 pm

Oh I get it now, she's gay, doh!! :roll:

I didn't know, or care, and I didn't read the article properly.
I did wonder where all the misogyny and references to pipes, flat caps and boilersuits was coming from. Now I understand because that's all dykes ever wear innit?

I've only ever known a few lesbians, but not one of them ever wore a boilersuit or a flat cap in my prescence. It's true one of them did occasionally smoke a pipe, which she was kind enough to share with me, but it wasn't the kind the Mailitie wankers have in mind.

It's not really BBC bashing at all but lesbian bashing.

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