Patronising Peston and dumbing down

[Ruprect]

He's at it again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereport...lity_myth.html

So the gross sum received by Goldman from the US Federal Reserve, via AIG, was $13bn.

What that shows is Goldman would have been in the deepest, darkest doo-doo, if AIG hadn't been put on life support.

Is this really the best the bbc has to offer? P*ss poor in my opinion.

[Doggy Styles]

I hate listening to him on the radio. He's full of waffle, 'ah's and 'er's while you're waiting for him to get the point. A c***.

[PM-Junkie]

I won't listen to the BBC anymore - I don't like their agenda. I get a report every two weeks detailing company investments by market sector, and it makes very interesting reading - especially the last two reports.

Example - 10 million pound investment here, 12 million pound investment there, 1000 new jobs here, 750 there...and 700 jobs lost somewhere else.

And guess which one the BBC reports?

[Doggy Styles]

I won't listen to the BBC anymore - I don't like their agenda. I get a report every two weeks detailing company investments by market sector, and it makes very interesting reading - especially the last two reports.

Example - 10 million pound investment here, 12 million pound investment there, 1000 new jobs here, 750 there...and 700 jobs lost somewhere else.

And guess which one the BBC reports?

Does that mean unemployment isn't rising after all?

[PM-Junkie]

Does that mean unemployment isn't rising after all?

No, that isn't my point - of course it is rising. But it is the way they ignore any good news and for straight for the bad news that turns me off. They clearly have an agenda.

[Doggy Styles]

No, that isn't my point - of course it is rising. But it is the way they ignore any good news and for straight for the bad news that turns me off. They clearly have an agenda.

They do, as do all the media. I see your point.

But if you were in the place of a newspaper editor or a news broadcaster, would you do anything different?

[Ruprect]

They do, as do all the media. I see your point.

But if you were in the place of a newspaper editor or a news broadcaster, would you do anything different?

Pogle would.

[PM-Junkie]

They do, as do all the media. I see your point.

But if you were in the place of a newspaper editor or a news broadcaster, would you do anything different?

I would report the news. I can just about accept newspapers printing what they want, because it's up to me whether I buy them or not. With the BBC, I have no choice, so it has no business having an agenda.

If it wants to play that game - scrap the license fee.

[sasguru]

I would report the news. I can just about accept newspapers printing what they want, because it's up to me whether I buy them or not. With the BBC, I have no choice, so it has no business having an agenda.

If it wants to play that game - scrap the license fee.

Unfortunately media is a business and they need bums on sofas/people buying their papers. The BBC has to compete on sensationalism with the commercial outfits. I've given up reading papers or watching the news - its all about getting the largest number of people's attention by being outrageous.

After all, who would buy a paper whose headline read "We are in a severe recession, but its not the end of the world, no one will starve or die - so count your lucky stars you don't live in some war zone, you spoilt fec-kers".

[Board Game Geek]

Well, I suspect that most people are interested in news that may affect them personally.

Whilst the building of a local Sally Army church may not pose a threat to them, a sudden influx of economic migrants most definitely would.

Hence it's reasonable to expect the news to focus on issues that affect people nationally and locally, such as :

Policing & Crime
NHS provisioning
Government mandates
Economic migrants / Asylum seekers
Education standards and changes
Local government edicts
House prices
Cost of living
etc...etc...