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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: Terry Wogan Comment On The BBC |
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From the Telegraph:
"The "old-fashioned thoroughness and commitment" which he encountered in his early days with the Corporation have long disappeared he said.
The Radio 2 presenter, whose career with the Corporation stretches back over 40 years, said staff no longer held a job with the BBC in high esteem.
"When I started, people who worked for the BBC knew they weren't earning as much as people in commercial television, but they did have the satisfaction of knowing that they worked for one of the finest, if not the finest, broadcasting organisation in the whole world. I'm not sure they feel that any more, or at least that it means as much as it used to," Wogan said.
Illustrating the way times have changed, Wogan recalled getting his big break in the 1960s: "When I sent in my first tape to the head of Gramophone Programmes at the BBC, I had made the fatal mistake of forgetting to rewind it to the start. Yet that gentleman took the time to wind it all the way back, and once he'd listened to it, things went from there.
"I can tell you, if I was a young chap coming over from Ireland today, they probably wouldn't even listen to my tape, let alone rewind. Somehow, that old-fashioned thoroughness and commitment have disappeared. I suppose no-one has the time for it any more."
He also lambasted modern presenters "who just read out the autocue without any of their own personality and with these awful glazed eyes, like a seagull's", although he declined to name the offenders." |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:03 am Post subject: Re: Terry Wogan Comment On The BBC |
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mark occomore wrote: |
The Radio 2 presenter, whose career with the Corporation stretches back over 40 years, said staff no longer held a job with the BBC in high esteem. |
Well, most of them are freelance for a start. Like Mr Wogan.
mark occomore wrote: | "I can tell you, if I was a young chap coming over from Ireland today, they probably wouldn't even listen to my tape, let alone rewind. Somehow, that old-fashioned thoroughness and commitment have disappeared. I suppose no-one has the time for it any more." |
No, why waste time on an applicant who can't get his presentation right before he gets the job. How sloppy will he be when he gets there?
mark occomore wrote: | He also lambasted modern presenters "who just read out the autocue without any of their own personality and with these awful glazed eyes, like a seagull's", although he declined to name the offenders." |
He's only jealous because his eyesight is so poor he can't read the autocue. (When Peter Sissons sits in for Andrew Marr he does without, and uses his own handwritten notes, possibly for the same reason). _________________ Ron |
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mark occomore
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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See Terry on the front cover of the Radio Times. A little air brushing there
He did say this morning about the interview. He always says some words are added, over enthusiastic journalists |
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