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MadeinSurrey
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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: Definition of "elderly"? |
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BBC News are relaying the terribly sad story of the poor woman who was urinated on as she lay dying. She was 50, and is described as "elderly"!!
Is it me?
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:11 pm Post subject: Re: Definition of "elderly"? |
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | BBC News are relaying the terribly sad story of the poor woman who was urinated on as she lay dying. She was 50, and is described as "elderly"!!
Is it me? |
No. It's the smarmy, patronising news style of today's TV. Trouble is that most of British TV is now staffed by young trendies who left university last week and think that the mejia is their exclusive territory. |
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Barkingbiker
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject: Re: Definition of "elderly"? |
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | BBC News are relaying the terribly sad story of the poor woman who was urinated on as she lay dying. She was 50, and is described as "elderly"!!
Is it me? |
No not you MIS, I am almost 60, but, according to my nearest & dearest I never left my childhood cause I still have toys like a couple of motor bikes and a cabriolet. Fifty is not elderly, unless you act elderly like some 20 & 30 year olds I know, full of their own importance and jobs worth attitude.
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iwarburton
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: |
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I too am approaching threescore. If the average male lifespan is 76 and female one is 81--and both increasing--then there aren't half going to be a lot of old codgers around, according to the trendies' way of thinking.
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: |
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| iwarburton wrote: | I too am approaching threescore. If the average male lifespan is 76 and female one is 81--and both increasing--then there aren't half going to be a lot of old codgers around, according to the trendies' way of thinking.
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That's right.Isn't it ironic that the "grey generation" is now becoming the majority in the broadcasters' so-called "demographic" yet they persist with this quest to net even more younger listeners and viewers - the very ones who just aren't interested. |
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Minx
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: Re: Definition of "elderly"? |
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: | BBC News are relaying the terribly sad story of the poor woman who was urinated on as she lay dying. She was 50, and is described as "elderly"!!
Is it me? |
No, I think whoever is responsible for preparing the news bulletins needs to pay a bit more attention to what they are actually writing.
I was incensed yesterday morning when I kept hearing "girls aged 12 and 13 are to be vaccinated against the papilloma virus...." sounding, for all the world, like parents (not to mention the girls themselves) had no choice in the matter. Later in the day the item was changed to "are to be offered vaccination" which more closely resembles the truth of the matter.
There's no excuse for this kind of sloppy performance in news broadcasting.  |
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: Re: Definition of "elderly"? |
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| Minx wrote: | | There's no excuse for this kind of sloppy performance in news broadcasting. |
Agreed. The problem is that there are too many sub-standard "broadcast journalism" degree courses being offered at two-bit redbrick universities turning out graduates who are going stright into jobs with no skills or experience. It wasn't that long ago that new entries into newsrooms would go into the regional centres and learn their trade from wily old news editors and other experienced reporters who passed on their knowledge.
Today, they go straight into reasonably key jobs without this guidnce. Why? Because the BBc and other organisations have cleverly pushed out "old timers" with a life of experience out of the back door.
And exactly the same has happened with technical staff and production crews. In the days when the BBC was run properly, each TV studio floor crew was headed by a "Number 1" cameraman - usually somebody who'd trained and worked from the ground up and who mentored the new intakes who'd just come in from Evesham training centre. It was the No.1 who guided them. The No.1 at TC1 (television centre Studio 1 and the biggest purpose-built TV studio in Europe) was effectively the No.1 in the BBC.
Thanks to the re-organisations, most crews in the BBC are now freelance. They move from one studio centre to another and from one job to another - and that family spirit has all but gone. And what you're left with is senior managers with little real experience of broadcasting (whether radio or TV) running the whole damn show and thinking that they're right about every decision they make. And that's why BBC TV and Radio is in a mess. The current state of Radio 2 is just one very real example of this.
Next thing to go will be all regional and opt-out activity - lots of very good people will be kicked out in an effort to pay for the cock-ups made by the idots at the top. I'll put money on it. |
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iwarburton
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Spot on. And this has been replicated in other spheres, such as the NHS.
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gfloyd
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Define "elederly" : People who are old enough to be your parents.
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Barkingbiker
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| gfloyd wrote: | Define "elederly" : People who are old enough to be your parents.
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Quote from Oxford Compact Dictionary:-
Elderly adj. 1. somewhat old 2. past middle age
About as clear as mud water!
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