HanoiVillan Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 Guess Norman Smith has some Strong Feelings about the Labour leadership race: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Welcome home, John. It's where you always belonged. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 1 hour ago, peterms said: Welcome home, John. It's where you always belonged. Well that’s the last timeI buy the Mail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 4 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Well that’s the last timeI buy the Mail. Peter Oborne has left, and he was worth reading. Next to go will be Hitchens, I expect. Spiralling down to ever lower circles of hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Great clapback. FWIW, Goodall was pretty good at his job at Sky, and I'm optimistic that he will help improve the output of Newsnight by a noticeable amount (at least in terms of analysis, obviously can't rule out producers creating pictures of, I don't know, Keir Starmer in Kim Jong Un's suit as a background or whatever). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted January 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2020 She’s announced versions of this several times and been corrected every time. Either she is thick, or she’s presuming her audience is thick. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 (edited) It's not explicitly about bias, but it's pretty disappointing that the BBC are cancelling Victoria Derbyshire's programme, since it frequently addressed issues that are completely ignored by the Westminster bubble chat. Edited January 23, 2020 by HanoiVillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 23, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2020 40 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: It's not explicitly about bias, but it's pretty disappointing that the BBC are cancelling Victoria Derbyshire's programme, since it frequently addressed issues that are completely ignored by the Westminster bubble chat. Ah poor VIc, she deserves better from them after what she went through 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 1 hour ago, bickster said: Ah poor VIc, she deserves better from them after what she went through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 23, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted January 23, 2020 1 hour ago, snowychap said: Usual throbbers chiming in. She'll be back on the air in no time at all, she always was the resilient type even in Uni 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 55 minutes ago, bickster said: Usual throbbers chiming in. She'll be back on the air in no time at all, she always was the resilient type even in Uni Learning about it from the 'papers is pretty shitty stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) Any Answers, on BBC R4. I’ll set the scene, they’re discussing funding of the NHS, a professor is talking about bed ratios and and how much we spend per capita compared with other similar nations and the cost of other health funding models... BBC radio host person:’yes, yes thanks I’ve got to stop you there we’ve got lots to get through. We’ve had a tweet from Melonhead 911 and they say...’ I shit you not, stop the professor talking we need to share this tweet from melonhead. Well, fingers crossed that melonhead tweets something favourable about funding of the BBC. Edited January 25, 2020 by chrisp65 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Any Answers, on BBC R4. I’ll set the scene, they’re discussing funding of the NHS, a professor is talking about bed ratios and and how much we spend per capita compared with other similar nations and the cost of other health funding models... BBC radio host person:’yes, yes thanks I’ve got to stop you there we’ve got lots to get through. We’ve had a tweet from Melonhead 911 and they say...’ I shit you not, stop the professor talking we need to share this tweet from melonhead. Well, fingers crossed that melonhead tweets something favourable about funding of the BBC. In trying to justify it's worth the BBC try to get the thoughts of the great unwashed at every point. Whether it's vox pops on the news or allowing the morons in the audience talk more than ever on Question Time... It really ruins it. I'd rather hear what 'experts' or at least people who are paid to think about the problem on hand have to say over what some average thoughtless clearing in the woods has to say. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 on the news last night reporting the death of kobe they showed a video of LeBron James...they are of course being accused of racism, I think that's giving them too much credit as most of the footage shows "James" written across the back of his jersey, its just good old fashioned utter **** stupidity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 22 minutes ago, villa4europe said: on the news last night reporting the death of kobe they showed a video of LeBron James...they are of course being accused of racism, I think that's giving them too much credit as most of the footage shows "James" written across the back of his jersey, its just good old fashioned utter **** stupidity I think the idea is that the racism is in being unable to tell two clearly different-looking black men apart, but that may not be the issue. Seemingly the way they do this is by entering a search term (eg Kobe Bryant) into a media search engine called Jupiter, and then that provides clips that can be used in a news broadcast. The footage used was from a previous story that was about James beating Bryant's scoring record, so it may be about just not checking the clips rather than being unable to tell black men apart. Whichever it is, it's very embarrassing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: I think the idea is that the racism is in being unable to tell two clearly different-looking black men apart, but that may not be the issue. Seemingly the way they do this is by entering a search term (eg Kobe Bryant) into a media search engine called Jupiter, and then that provides clips that can be used in a news broadcast. The footage used was from a previous story that was about James beating Bryant's scoring record, so it may be about just not checking the clips rather than being unable to tell black men apart. Whichever it is, it's very embarrassing. Yep, I doubt it's actually racism but it's a **** stupid mistake and it doesn't look good. At the very least it shows whoever was editing the footage absolutely phoned it in as it only took a cursory glance to realise it was the wrong person. You don't have to be a basketball fan or even know who Kobe Bryant is to see that clip and realise it's not the right person given it's got "James" written on his back. At least enough to question it. I doubt if it was two white footballers the same mistake would have happened. Edited January 27, 2020 by Stevo985 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2020 The Bryant/James thing is oversight, not malice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2020 I have a different theory with the Bryantr / James thing. The last person Bryant sent a text to was James, congratulating him on overtaking him in the all time points rankings. I suspect the footage was intended for that story and not the one it was sent with Its just lack of attention rather than anything else EDIT: Should have read @HanoiVillan's post first doh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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