smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
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smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
You don't know that. Many fixed penalty notices are overturned on appeal without the media getting involved.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
It's always good to get a second opinion.
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User482
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[QUOTE 4888760, member: 76"]Socialist council stamping on any kind of free enterprise. We will next hear that the girl has been removed to a re-education facility involving endless loops of Corbyn speeches and her father will be sent to a work camp in Hackney.[/QUOTE]
I look forward to learning about the contents of your fridge and the culinary masterpieces that result.
I look forward to learning about the contents of your fridge and the culinary masterpieces that result.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Well that's rather the point. I think there's a general perception that the BBC is a State institution with a legal obligation to be fair, balanced etc etc. Usually the only people who dispute this are political wonks whining that their side is getting a raw deal, but here we see that Auntie Beeb - that staid, upright, proper organisation is in fact no better than the gutter press.
People here talk about the Tories attacking the BBC and wanting to do away with it. If it's not as good qualitatively with drama as HBO, Netflix etc and if it's news programmes are descending to Daily Star levels - what is there to protect?
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User482
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All this is true, if you're going to use a single data point as conclusive evidence that the BBC belongs with the gutter press.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
It does amuse me that people can so casually compare a short episode of mildly over-authorative behaviour with a truly murderous movement responsible for the genocide of millions.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
I think the BBC are on the whole pretty good in their news reporting - in fact, they're sometimes over-scrupulous in their attempts to be 'fair and balanced', largely through fear of giving ammunition to the Daily Mail and Sun to use against them.
They seem to let their standards slip rather too often in their online news though. Part of it, I suspect, is down to the pressure to get stuff published in a hurry, part of it will be down to the fact that a lot of the online reporters are inexperienced juniors. This non-story has all the hallmarks of both. They should have experienced editors casting an eye over this crap before publishing it though. The marked similarities in the way the story has been reported across the media (especially the wording of the headline) suggest that it's essentially a rehashed press release, rather than genuine original reporting.
There is no legal obligation to be 'fair and balanced' in the UK, not even for the BBC, but it should be a straightforward matter of journalistic best practice for any news outlet.
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User482
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This is for P&Lite really, but I've noticed a change in her political reporting since the general election - she's been more critical of the conservatives.
Back in the day, the question was asked, in Czechoslovakia I think, as to why secret policemen travel in threes. Apparently one to write reports, one to read them and the third to keep an eye on those two intellectuals.
