BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality

Subject: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 01:10 PM

I cannot believe that the BBC has led every news bulletin today with the break up of the relationship between prince William and his girl friend This is in a day when 36 people were killed by a suicide bomber in Karbala Iraq, and yet more in Baghdad, and others injured in Casablanca by bombings.
Gary Kasparov was arrested in Moscow for marching against oppression in Russia.
Surely there is more to life than the prurient interest of an apathetic population in the doings of a member of the Royal family.
I would have thought better of the BBC, but I have noticed that recently their news headlines have been going down the lurid tabloid press route.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: Captain Ginger
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 03:42 PM

Just console yourself that ITN is even worse! It is depressing, though. If you've got access to the World Service or News 24, try that - it's real news, not the stuff seen through the prism of the Daily Mail.

Subject: RE: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 04:48 PM

Why so surpised, Giok? They are all part of the same media machine.

Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what your see!

:D

Subject: RE: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: folk1e
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:18 PM

"Yer pays yer money, an yer gets pot luck"
Seriously ..... what do you expect? An honest frank and balanced view of the big bad world out there?

PAPER....PAPER.... READ ALL ABOUT IT.....

government admit "cock up in Iraq"!

Nasty Iranians treat our Soldiers better than we treat our own prisoners!

Government admit "error of judgement" over rendition!

Blair admits "hand over to Brown" was a joke.



Come to think about it there may be something in this.....

Subject: RE: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 04:44 PM

But Prince Whatsizname's new ex-girlfriend was noted as always behaving with sensitivity and discretion in her dealings with the press and her connection to royalty.
Damn sight more than his mother ever did!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: GUEST,Joy Bringer
Date: 03 Nov 08 - 05:56 PM

Well the BBC are in the news again for all the wrong reasons.

Jeremy Clarkson has sparked fresh BBC controversy by joking about murdering prostitutes.

The Top Gear presenter, 48, made the quip about lorry drivers killing sex workers on Sunday night's BBC Two show.

As he completed a lorry-driving task, he said: "This is a hard job and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers, it's a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day."

This is the second time this fat bastards comments made headlines. His remarks about Bobby Sands hasn't been forgotten, believe me. These latest remarks come after serial killer Steve Wright was convicted in February of murdering five prostitutes in Ipswich.

Wright was a former lorry driver, as well as pub landlord and forklift truck driver.

Clarkson's joke, made before the watershed, sparked 188 complaints to the BBC, out of what the Corporation said was seven million viewers.

The Iceni Project, a charity which had helped some of the murdered prostitutes in Ipswich, criticised the remark. The group's director Brian Tobin said: "I just think it was highly distasteful and insensitive. Maybe people on the BBC should think a bit more before saying some of the things they keep coming out with.

"It is around the time of the anniversary of the girls' (Ipswich prostitutes) deaths and it's a very delicate time. I saw it on Top Gear. It made me cringe."

Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom said it had been contacted by viewers angry at the remarks. A spokesman said: "Ofcom has received complaints regarding Top Gear. These complaints are currently being assessed against the Broadcasting Code. All UK broadcasters must adhere to Ofcom's Broadcasting Code which sets standards for the content of television and radio broadcasting."

A BBC spokeswoman attempted to play it down, saying "The vast majority of Top Gear viewers have clear expectations of Jeremy Clarkson's long-established and frequently provocative on-screen persona. This particular reference was used to comically exaggerate and make ridiculous an unfair urban myth about the world of lorry driving, and was not intended to cause offence."

So are they saying this fat ugly fuck can say what he wants ?

Subject: RE: BS: BBC 's Tabloid mentality
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Nov 08 - 06:13 PM

I watched it, and was disgusted by his remarks, and I have always been a Clarkson fan,, but I'm also a retired lorry driver, and I was extremely offended by his crass remark. He said it twice too.

XG