Giddy bbc sickeners

[pinkpapaver]

Has any one se noticed the giddy of the BBC these days.? If they aren't celebrating mediocrity in health care and vaxines they are talking football for a change. They are all extremely giddy. Pissed or something.

 

[Reeta Chakrabarti]

pinkpapaver,

Thank you for your comments.

As news presenters we have to report on a range of topics covering latest affairs from all over the world. When reporting, it's important to detach yourself emotionally and focus on the content of the news. Be it politics/football/weather etc. Throughout the day there will inevitably be a lot of negative news coming our way, I try not to let that influence my mood when reporting on more trivial matters.

Yours sincerely and

"Getting giddy wid' it"

Reeta

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

pinkpapaver,

Thank you for your comments.

As news presenters we have to report on a range of topics covering latest affairs from all over the world. When reporting, it's important to detach yourself emotionally and focus on the content of the news. Be it politics/football/weather etc. Throughout the day there will inevitably be a lot of negative news coming our way, I try not to let that influence my mood when reporting on more trivial matters.

Yours sincerely and

"Getting giddy wid' it"

Reeta

Morpheus, is that you again..?

 

[Zephyn]

What does this have to do with big black cock?

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

What does this have to do with big black cock?

Heh, i was just wondering what would happen if you googled:

"Giddy bbc sickeners"​

I dread to think...

 

[Forever Changes]

I get giddy because the BBC sickens me with their crap shows and extortionate TV licence

 

[Nightraver]

I’m hoping that the bbc and itv start doing the topics of canabis legalisation/decriminalisation again as when it’s in morning tv being debated it gives me hope that the fear and paranoia of the boomer generation is finally dying out
Other than that I don’t really watch the bbc or itv for news anymore
But I find if you watch Bbc and Rt news if you find a kind of middle of both propaganda outlets it’s more likely to be true than each on their own merits

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

I get giddy because the BBC sickens me with their crap shows and extortionate TV licence

I dunno really mate, 13/14 quid a month doesn't seem too unreasonable to me for the whole spectrum of their content. Obviously, I'd prefer it to be free and must concede that the vast majority of content is mindless shit or repeats; but the BBC news is second to none. BBC documentaries are second to none. The comedy shows are pretty fuckin good as well. Plus they don't have XFactor or Ant and Fuckin Dec...

 

[thefirm]

Morpheus, is that you again..?

I don't know who the fuck Reeta Chakrabarti is so nope not me too lazy to make alts anyway

What does this have to do with big black cock?

yeah that was what I've read the first time too, big black cocks sickeners, until I remembered that this is a post on EADD and BBC is a TV channel

 

[Forever Changes]

I dunno really mate, 13/14 quid a month doesn't seem too unreasonable to me for the whole spectrum of their content. Obviously, I'd prefer it to be free and must concede that the vast majority of content is mindless shit or repeats; but the BBC news is second to none. BBC documentaries are second to none. The comedy shows are pretty fuckin good as well. Plus they don't have XFactor or Ant and Fuckin Dec...

Heh, well I wasn't being entirely serious.....but, I agree that BBC documentaries are second to none, but disagree about the news.... maybe it used to be but not any more, and especially their news website which is shocking - it's more like a lifestyle magazine, and any semblance of impartiality was jettisoned long ago. Comedies haven't been much good since the 90s IMO.

Sure, the iplayer is great, but I don't watch enough Beeb content to make the fee seem worth it any more. The licence fee seems antiquated in the age where we now have a thousand channels to choose from and can watch TV on computers/tablets/phones/watches etc.... can't the BBC just be funded from normal taxation? It would save on all the administrative costs that running and enforcing the licence fee costs. Also the thuggish way the TV licence is enforced is very bad form.

 

[Jackal]

I stopped paying a TV license years before leaving the UK.

We reported that we did not use a TV to view or record live TV

The inspection prick kept hassling us, on the grounds there was a huge satellite dish on the chimney, so I took it down.

Prick kept coming, so I recorded him and reported him to his bosses for harassment and that was the end of TV license man.

Poll tax cunt hooks woman was the next challenger...

 

[LoginNotSecure]

I've never paid two bills in all my adult life, one of those is the TV license.

 

[CFC]

I'd say the Beeb holds less value for me than it did 20 years ago, but I still support paying the license. I can't see this system lasting for too much longer in its current form though.

 

[MsDiz]

Fuck the TV license! I have an apartment in the north and am barely there so damn right I’m not paying that shit! I just emailed saying I don’t have a TV and that was it. They don’t send inspectors in the north of Ireland really due to our past (and present in a lot of towns/cities, especially the city I have an apartment in.)

 

[Arnold]

Nice to know that the British Bolshevik Corporation is watching this space.

Them tools also described the Beslan siegers as 'Freedom fighters'.

One wise guy once told me that the only contact one should ever make with a journo is with the tip of your shoe and their fucking face.

Despite warnings Mugs, despite the heedings, admitted what everybody already knew.

 

[pinkpapaver]

I have to turn the volume down on the David Attenborough shows. I like the animals. Oh they are so giddy right now all across the BBC tho, so so so giddy . I feel like I'm watching play school some days. Local radio the same. Giddy giddy giddy. Must be somethibg good in that vaxine then they're all so giddy

 

[Tranced]

I stopped paying a TV license years before leaving the UK.

We reported that we did not use a TV to view or record live TV

The inspection prick kept hassling us, on the grounds there was a huge satellite dish on the chimney, so I took it down.

Prick kept coming, so I recorded him and reported him to his bosses for harassment and that was the end of TV license man.

Poll tax cunt hooks woman was the next challenger...

I absolutely love these guys! Can remember the license letter and my ex-girlfriend freaking out that we hadn't paid it - even though we literally didn't have TV's in the house. Convinced her that they had absolutely nothing on us and we weren't breaking the law, and that I'd deal with him. Had a lot of fun when he knocked on the door that day, and he never came back.

"You are breaking the law"
"Which law, can you cite the name of the law? Can you prove it?"
"No.... but you still have to let me in"
"No I don't, you're just a guy, like me, and this is my house. I'm breaking no law and you know it, you just think I'll concede"
".... okay but... we'll be back!! With the police"
"Look forward to it, genuinely, see you next time! Feel free to hang around and chat!"

He rejected my offer, made a snotty comment and never came back.

You do not need to email them or tell them anything, if you don't mind a bit of fun. Plus they still hassle you anyway, even if you prove yourself.

Also, just to point out that people tend to think either:
1. The BBC is a national institution in independent, unbiased reporting and we should keep them as we need independent media. They (BBC) often say it themselves.
2. The BBC are a corrupt organisation that is not independent but ran by hidden hands.

Interestingly they are or were (lot's of confusion as I read up on this) first and foremost ran out of The Government Department of Media Culture and Sport in the Houses of Parliament. The BBC World Service is/was funded by the The Foreign Office. Either way, both clearly influence (even if the bbc lost funding/is involved in a dispute) whether you think such government departments, have much sway or not... well if not they simply lose the license fee, which is basically corporate tax. Gotta toe the line, and the government aren't just going to fund a broadcaster out of the kindness of their hearts.

A few interesting things from wikipedia.

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest of any kind.[1] It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages[2][3] to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays. In 2015, The World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week (via TV, radio and online).[4] In November 2016, the BBC announced that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s.[5]

The World Service is funded by the United Kingdom's television licence fee, limited advertising[6] and the profits of BBC Studios.[7] The service was also guaranteed £289 million (allocated over a five-year period ending in 2020) from the UK government.[8] The World Service was funded for decades by grant-in-aid through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government[9] until 1 April 2014.[10]

BBC World Service English maintains eight regional feeds with several programme variations, covering, respectively, East and South Africa; West and Central Africa; Europe and Middle East; Americas and Caribbean; East Asia; South Asia; Australasia; United Kingdom. There are also two separate online-only streams with one being more news-oriented, known as News Internet. The service broadcasts 24 hours a day.

World Service Mission Statement: We aim to be the world's most creative and trusted broadcaster and programme maker, seeking to satisfy all our audiences in the UK with services that inform, educate and entertain and that enrich their lives in ways that the market alone will not.

Foreign Office Purpose: Unlike the other departments of the BBC, the BBC World Service was funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, more commonly known as the Foreign Office or the FCO, is the British government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom abroad.

The World Service aims to be "the world's best-known and most-respected voice in international broadcasting, thereby bringing benefit to the UK, the BBC, and to audiences around the world",[37] while retaining a "balanced British view" of international developments.[38] Like the rest of the BBC, the World Service is a Crown corporation of the UK Government. For the financial year 2018–19, it received £327 million.[39] In addition to broadcasting, the Service also devotes resources to the BBC Learning English programme.[40]

How many times have you heard the BBC talking about the world service independently delivering unbiased information to all corners of the global, to disadvantaged countries, providing radio for Africa! Etc etc - pure bollocks.

And from here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/bbc

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a British public service broadcaster. Its main responsibility is to provide impartial public service broadcasting in the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
BBC is a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

I just thought I'd click on the who link for the chairman of the BBC, just to see who he really is.

Richard Simon Sharp (born 8 February 1956) is the current Chairman of the BBC, a role he has held since February 2021. A former banker, he worked at JP Morgan for eight years, and then for 23 years at Goldman Sachs. Sharp was an advisor to Boris Johnson during his tenure as London Mayor, and to Rishi Sunak as Chancellor. Sharp worked for JP Morgan for eight years.[6] He then worked for Goldman Sachs for 23 years, rising to chairman of its principal investment business in Europe, before leaving in 2007.[7] He was Rishi Sunak's boss when they both worked for Goldman Sachs,[6] was an advisor to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London, and acted as an unpaid adviser to Sunak on the UK's economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] He was a member of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee from 2013 to 2019.[7] In 2014, he joined the property investment company RoundShield Partners, where he was a senior member until February 2021, when The Guardian approached the firm for comment. RoundShield advised and managed a fund that provided a £50m loan to Caridon, which has been accused of "cramming homeless and low-income families into former office blocks".[9]

Sharp was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012.[7] In January 2021, it was announced that he would be the next chairman of the BBC, succeeding David Clementi who is due to leave the position in February 2021.[7][8] Speaking shortly after his appointment, Sharp told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee that he planned to give his £160,000 BBC salary to charity.[10] Controversy surrounded his appointment as it was revealed that not only had he donated more than £400,000 to the Conservative Party, but that he was also formerly the director of the Centre for Policy Studies, a think tank with historical links to the Conservative Party. Critics have pointed out that a person who holds such a position as that of BBC chairman should be politically impartial.[11][12] The appointment followed that of Tim Davie, a former Conservative Party councillor, to the role of Director-General.[13]

I mean, where do I start? I bet he's impartial.

MI5 vetting policy​

From as early as the 1930s until the 1990s, MI5, the British domestic intelligence service, engaged in vetting of applicants for BBC positions, a policy designed to keep out persons deemed subversive.[107][108] In 1933, BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay began to meet the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to informally trade information; from 1935, a formal arrangement was made wherein job applicants would be secretly vetted by MI5 for their political views (without their knowledge).[107] The BBC took up a policy of denying any suggestion of such a relationship by the press (the existence of MI5 itself was not officially acknowledged until the Security Service Act 1989.[107]

This relationship garnered wider public attention after an article by David Leigh and Paul Lashmar appeared in The Observer in August 1985, revealing that MI5 had been vetting appointments, running operations out of Room 105 in Broadcasting House.[107][109] At the time of the exposé, the operation was being run by Ronnie Stonham. A memo from 1984 revealed that blacklisted organisations included the far-left Communist Party of Great Britain, the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Militant Tendency, as well as the far-right National Front and the British National Party. An association with one of these groups could result in a denial of a job application.[107]

In October 1985, the BBC announced that it would stop the vetting process, except for a few people in top roles, as well as those in charge of Wartime Broadcasting Service emergency broadcasting (in event of a nuclear war) and staff in the BBC World Service.[107] In 1990, following the Security Service Act 1989, vetting was further restricted to only those responsible for wartime broadcasting and those with access to secret government information.[107] Michael Hodder, who succeeded Stonham, had the MI5 vetting files sent to the BBC Information and Archives in Reading, Berkshire.[107]

Pure bollocks. Fuck 'em.

Edit: Also, I'll never forget when they 'altered'/changed thinking people wouldn't noice footage being aired about the Syria chemical weapons attack from saying napalm, to chemical weapons.


No idea about the rest of the claims regarding all this, but this was sketchy and foolish and patronising at absolute best. Apparently it's footage from the same interview rather than actually altered.

BBC response:

“To have included her speculation that this could have been a “chemical weapon” ran a considerable risk of being incredibly misleading and confusing to the audience, not least because the incident happened within days of an alleged chemical attack in Damascus”

Cheers, BBC.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

I've never paid two bills in all my adult life, one of those is the TV license.

I'm curious as to what the other one may be.

Tax?

 

[Jabberwocky]

As a degenerate American every time I see BBC I think of something entirely different.

 

[Reeta Chakrabarti]

I dunno really mate, 13/14 quid a month doesn't seem too unreasonable to me for the whole spectrum of their content. Obviously, I'd prefer it to be free and must concede that the vast majority of content is mindless shit or repeats; but the BBC news is second to none. BBC documentaries are second to none. The comedy shows are pretty fuckin good as well. Plus they don't have XFactor or Ant and Fuckin Dec...

BBC news is the largest broadcast news organisation in the world. Our annual budget is in excess of 350 million pounds. Our 3,500 staff work incredibly hard to bring you the very latest news around the world 24 hours a day 7 days a week across both radio and television services.

That's my department. No doubt colleagues who deal with Radio, Education, Weather, Sport, iPlayer, documentaries can also give similar testaments as to what great effort and resources go into their broadcasting.

Only by charging a compulsory tax can we deliver such quality and provide the security of the BBC culture we see today.

The inspection prick kept hassling us, on the grounds there was a huge satellite dish on the chimney, so I took it down.

Prick kept coming, so I recorded him and reported him to his bosses for harassment and that was the end of TV license man.

Poll tax cunt hooks woman was the next challenger...

I absolutely love these guys! Can remember the license letter and my ex-girlfriend freaking out that we hadn't paid it - even though we literally didn't have TV's in the house. Convinced her that they had absolutely nothing on us and we weren't breaking the law, and that I'd deal with him. Had a lot of fun when he knocked on the door that day, and he never came back.

"You are breaking the law"
"Which law, can you cite the name of the law? Can you prove it?"
"No.... but you still have to let me in"
"No I don't, you're just a guy, like me, and this is my house. I'm breaking no law and you know it, you just think I'll concede"
".... okay but... we'll be back!! With the police"
"Look forward to it, genuinely, see you next time! Feel free to hang around and chat!"

He rejected my offer, made a snotty comment and never came back.

You do not need to email them or tell them anything, if you don't mind a bit of fun. Plus they still hassle you anyway, even if you prove yourself.

The TV inspector is only doing his job and is entirely justified in his conduct. We provide you with a world-class quality service; we are entitled to charge for our services in the same way anyone else would. It is our legal and moral right to clamp down on those we suspect are unfairly stealing from us.

The rest of your post just looks like conspiracy theories to try and bring justification to what appears to be blatant theft from the BBC on your part.

The BBC is operationally independent of the government and we are required to report impartially. If you feel there is political bias within the BBC you are entitled to that intepretation but the facts still remain: we work hard to provide you world-class television. The TV inspector is only doing his duty to try and prevent crime. You (two) appear to be thieves who drive up the cost of a TV license for everyone else.

Reeta