BBC bashing

Fact Hunt · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:56 am

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Take a look at your own coverage DM. As usual by catering to the lowest common denominator, you turned Whitney's death into a disgraceful affair. Sensational headlines and disgusting content and speculation. Once upon a time, the DM could claim it was a serious newspaper but now it is just another cheap gossip rag.

- Me, alone in my room, 22/2/2012 5:29
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SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1650

BBC at centre of exploitation row over advert for 500 staff to work for FREE during Olympic Games

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1n82pGCqo

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More tiresome Beeb bashing. Seems that Poundland and Tesco can exploit free labour but heaven forbid the BBC try to. I really do wish you would declare an interest in these stories - D M G T is a major shareholder in I T N News should cover it.
- D. Emry-Porter, ROYAL Tunbridge Wells, 22/2/2012 16:26

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:21 pm

Jeebus on a fucking spacehopper, this is desperate stuff.

The opportunities are for existing BBC staff taking annual leave during the games, so they *are* already getting paid.

Furthermore, they are *entirely* voluntary, and are clearly intended to be for sport enthusiast (or just major event enthusiast) staff that are keen to have some sort of involvement in the once-in-a-lifetime Olympic Games - this offers them a way in to that that they may not otherwise get.

I have some friends who are inveterate sports fiends who would absolutely jump at this.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

Abernathy wrote:

Jeebus on a fucking spacehopper, this is desperate stuff.

The opportunities are for existing BBC staff taking annual leave during the games, so they *are* already getting paid.

Furthermore, they are *entirely* voluntary, and are clearly intended to be for sport enthusiast (or just major event enthusiast) staff that are keen to have some sort of involvement in the once-in-a-lifetime Olympic Games - this offers them a way in to that that they may not otherwise get.

I have some friends who are inveterate sports fiends who would absolutely jump at this.

That sounds rather different to being loaded onto cattle trucks at the Jobcentre and loaded off at Tesco.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:56 pm

So they're all on £100k, but they're being exploited.

Can those both be true?

Abernathy · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:46 pm

Free BBC Frozen Planet posters with The Mail this weekend.

I believe the word is "chutzpah".

ezinra · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:52 pm

'OMG. Overslept this morning': BBC's Peston 'busks' live on Today after climbing out of bed late on day RBS posts £2bn loss

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Speaking live on Today, the business specialist, who cut his teeth at the Financial Times and made his name during the crisis of 2007, tried to hide behind technical language.

'Well I suppose the biggest operating, erm er, trend has been the fall in the profits of the investment bank, er, by, erm, where we saw operating profits last year more than halved,' he said.

That's quite articulate for Peston. He's not popular with the mob:

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One of the most annoying people on TV and a hardcore supporter of the BBC's social engineering agenda via its support of Labour. When the BBC finally do come out and admit that, yes, they are nothing more than a Labour propaganda channel this guy will be front and centre. I wonder what his party trick is when he's at Labour indoctrination camp; my guess is that him and Ed Miliband ask everyone to close their eyes then guess which one of them is speaking.

- muzza, Stevenage, 24/2/2012 14:39 Rating 8

Funny, because I heard him defending RBS and Lloyds' bonuses. A true Marxist! And Evan Davies' interview with Stephen Hester, which followed Peston's busk, began with Davies saying "Now I don't want to be anti-business…". Then he lobbed Hester a soft question about £800 million of RBS bonuses and allowed him the rest of the interview to talk bollocks about the bank's losses.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:52 pm

And Bob Crow gets "people will think youf ballot was rigged, won't they?"

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

"a hardcore supporter of the BBC's social engineering agenda via its support of Labour." :?:

Christ on a unicycle! What corner of their paranoid deluded brains do they pull this shit from? Let's also remember that Peston has been criticised by some for being a little too chummy with a few too many people in that renowned Marxist organisation, News International.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:55 pm

And he previously worked for far leftists, The Financial Times.

slilley · **Joined:** Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:58 pm **Posts:** 54

It hasnt taken long but this morning they are all guns blazing at the BBC's The Midwife and various "historical inaccuracies" allegedly in it. Of course Downton Abbey is perfect in every way isnt it??

Simon

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3942

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... tairs.html

One to keep an eye on. So far comments are all over the place.

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:07 pm

davidjay wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2106507/Pass-smelling-salts-Hudson-The-lesbian-bedroom-scenes-NEVER-appeared-original-Upstairs-Downstairs.html

One to keep an eye on. So far comments are all over the place.

Only had a cursory look (as I'm on self-imposed exile from that shit tip this week) but I seem to recall the subject of homosexuality was dealt with in the original Up-Down.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:08 pm

But that was a toff having it off with a member of the lower classes...

Carlos The Badger · **Posted:** Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:13 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

But that was amongst the lower classes...

I thought it was both. Firstly the footman (who ran away to live with some lord, and then came back and got arrested) and then later on wasn't Georgina's(?) titled husband in the closet or something?

It's all a bit hazy. First time around a bit young to know what was going on, second time on Catch-Up TV late on Saturday night with vino involved.

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