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MIKERAPHONE
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 Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: Radio 2 news Sunday at 11pm |
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The news on Radio 2 at 11 last night.
Was the opening story about troops in Iraq?
Dangerous prisoners on the run?
Suicide bombers?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shilpa wins Big Brother.
This is not even a BBC show
This should be the last story not the first.
Come on BBC
PRIORITISE!!!!!!!!
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Well they were promoting Richard Hammond's return to Top Gear as a major news story earlier in the evening so at least they are consistent. 
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Don't they call such days 'Slow news' days? |
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Lady Boil De Spudswell
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | | Don't they call such days 'Slow news' days? |
Similarly I caught the 8pm news last night and there was a story concerning Lilly Allen. Now, far be it from me to make sweeping generalisations, but I hardly think the kind of people who have tuned in for Titchmarsh are gonna give a RA about Silly Allen, let alone know who she is!
Not the first time I've heard trendy 'yoof' orientated news stories precede YHBT and the like.
Shouldn't some sort of editorial judgement take place whereby the stories selected are tailored more to the programme and its audience that they punctuate?
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Hi Lady B.
I could understand the Top Gear reference as it is a BBC show but even that is not headline news.
Entertainment type stories should be the end link not the opening one.
I wonder what Lord Reith would have made of this along with no music whatsoever on a Sunday!!!!!!!!!!
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Yet more evidence of the BBC dumbing down and pandering to the lowest common denominator, I'm afraid. I've all but stopped watching News 24 as it's either more of the same or reporting on events that haven't actually happened yet.... which IMHO, isn't news, but speculation. Last refuge is with Radio 4 news, although it's also showing signs of joining in with the slide down the slippery slope.
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| We used to laugh in the 70s when the Two Ronnies did the Russian.... and...here is tomorrow's news..sketch.It seems to me, that the News and Weather have swapped places over recent years, and they do with such dead pan faces too. They tell us what the weather was today and what Tony Blair will say tomorrow. I guess it's a general news forecast followed by the weather news....... |
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| Presumably today's headlines are crowing about Top Gear's ratings victory over Big Brother, as if it matters. But good to see near-death experiences are more interesting to the Great British Public® than racist bullying... |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Ian Robinson wrote: | | Presumably today's headlines are crowing about Top Gear's ratings victory over Big Brother, as if it matters. But good to see near-death experiences are more interesting to the Great British Public® than racist bullying... |
A real car crash still beats a virtual car crash.
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....and a hamster beats an alleged racist rat 
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