#106

absolute travesty of an article tbh

#107

Isn’t the question, “Does it feel like coming home?”

#108

Feels like this thread could do with a bump and some new contributions.

@moderators - can you strip off the Film & TV categorisation? I didn’t put it there cos this is as much (if not more) about news coverage online and on the radio, rather than ‘TV’ stuff. Thanks.

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#109

Dismantle the BBC monolith and create regional, democratically owned and run public broadcasting networks under the ‘bbc’ umbrella.

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#110
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#114

‘Protest’

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#115

And the bloody Guardian also called them ‘protesters’. FFS.

#116

The Guardy headline I saw called it an attack, which is better than the “fine people on both sides” approach of the BBC.

#117

Oh god, they’re going to do a “Tommy: hero or villain” documentary aren’t they?

Best bit will be some kipper twat saying he’s our Che Guevara.

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#118

They probably amended it after criticism since I saw the first report…

#119

This is genuinely disgusting

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#120
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#121

“It was a joke”

No, it wasn’t.

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#122

I don’t think the BBC even know what kind of website they want to be any more.

bbc

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#123

It’s getting more and more full of clickbait drivel and less actual news. Think it’s pretty shocking really given it’s supposed to be a public service.

#124

It’s weird, but I’m sure they can show this stuff gets more clicks which they can use to argue shows they’re fulfilling their remit of churning out popular bullshit.

#125

Yeah, that’s probably true unfortunately, although I don’t think trying to emulate Mailonline should be their remit, really. Perhaps I’m just being snobbish, but I think the whole point of a public service news broadcaster is to report the news, especially stuff that’s considered too serious/boring/unsexy to get coverage elsewhere.

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#126

It’s the BBC News website. So it should have the news. And not just be an endless succession of skateboarding duck videos and uncritical soundbites.

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#127

Isn’t that the problem with news values, though? They have to publish what will drive circulation, so they can’t just focus on what they ‘should’ be publishing, but instead what resonates with their audience. I’m not saying they shouldn’t aim higher, but in a crowded marketplace they’re going to get massacred if they don’t run with the ‘Skateboarding Duck Has Changed Position On Brexit’ stuff. I mean, still fuck them for giving their airtime over to right-wing demagogues and so on, but it is driven by what the public wants, and we all know how that ends up.