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4 hours ago, Edwardian said:

 

Pop a cap in yo ass more likely if I were to wear one of those!

What have donkeys got to do with this, or indeed half-yo-yos, bottles of flavoured carbonated water and very small amounts of shock-sensitive percussive chemicals bound in paper?

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I heard the bit on Today about it this morning c0800, and the thing that impressed me most was the interviewer’s hugely evident lack of grasp of the practicalities of cost-estimating for any job, let alone one this big, and her willingness to slip into the language of tabloid caricature.

 

The woman from the NAO and the MP who were interviewed both did their jobs splendidly, turning aside the tabloid questioning in their own ways and making their points soundly.

 

i know that interviewers are meant to act as proxy for the listener, who may not be a specialist in the topic, but channeling The Sun isn’t right for a R4 audience, is it?

 

PS: Or, is it that I’m just getting old(er)?

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19 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

i know that interviewers are meant to act as proxy for the listener, who may not be a specialist in the topic, but channeling The Sun isn’t right for a R4 audience, is it?

 

PS: Or, is it that I’m just getting old(er)?

 

We're all getting older, and aren't part of their new target demographic.

 

Aping The Sun is what the BBC seem to be aiming for these days.  "Linear" programming is out (see Victoria Derbyshire programme), web/app delivery is the mode the bigwigs aspire to.  If it can't be compressed into a video clip or podcast to be delivered via a locked down portal like iPlayer or Sounds where they can datamine your consumption patterns then they don't want to know you.  The latest is that when browsing the BBC website a page will be frozen at random while a dialog box* suggests that you'd be better logging in so they can track your preferences. At the moment, they'll allow you to continue by clicking a "later, perhaps" link...

 

* An example:

 

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illustrative example!
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Yes, well, I'm a stout(er than I should be) defender of the BBC ethos, and am terrified of the prospect of it being whittled away by those with an interest in killing it off to allow profits and their spin to triumph, but I do worry about how many own goals it scores.

 

Changing formats to suit younger audiences I get, even if I don't always like, but a tabloid style on the flagship news programme I don't.

 

If I lived in Tunbridge Wells, i might express disgust.

 

Right, got that off my chest - I promise not to mention it again.

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News, when it can be found in this country is a morass of ads interspersed with current topics reduced to seconds so the next ad can be fitted in before the next segment.  In depth news is limited to our PBS stations and even then features last longer than an actual news item.  Apparently its all geared to I phones, etc, whose owners like the president, like to get as many sound bites instead of actual broadcast and paper news, both of which are suffering.  Concentration is measured in seconds these days which adds to the dumbing down of the populace.  Even our local paper prints only six days now!

     Brian.

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Having lived in the Americas for a spell, I must say that we are lucky that it is only our print media, and not our broadcast media, that is markedly partisan.

 

With the manipulation of the fake news/false equivalence variety practised by the ends-justify-the-means Dominic Cummings ilk, and now HMG's 'weaponising' of the licence fee issue to attack the BBC, I fear that we can no longer take that for granted.

 

But, as Joni Mitchell once observed, you don't know what you've got til its gone.

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11 hours ago, Edwardian said:

But, as Joni Mitchell once observed, you don't know what you've got til its gone.

 

Thats if you remember how it was previously. Consumers of the "New Way" will merely deride any "Remainers" as out-of-touch wrinklies.

 

1 hour ago, Edwardian said:

You couldn't make this up ...

 

You could AT LEAST have linked to the BBC coverage, rather than that of the Demon Of The Pit.  I had to go and wash my browser out after visiting there...

 

29 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

I guess that should extend the reach of their ability to bomb people/alien-life-forms back into the Stone Age.

 

Earth would be lucky if it were merely bombed back to unicellular life-forms.

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

I guess that should extend the reach of their ability to bomb people/alien-life-forms back into the Stone Age.

 

I'm envisaging a mob of LNWR directors hurling vegetables at their Midland counterparts.

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1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

You could AT LEAST have linked to the BBC coverage, rather than that of the Demon Of The Pit.  I had to go and wash my browser out after visiting there...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry, I heard the news on R4 and did an image search to see the 2 together, that was what came up!

 

So, by way of amends, Beleaguered Broadcasting Corporation

 

EDIT: Of course I still find a profound absurdity in the fact that the was a "Space Command" and is now a "Space Force", it sounds all a bit, well ....

 

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Above, Things you Never Thought you'd See in Castle Aching: "Matchbox Adventure 2000", No.23 in an occasional series.

 

But then I reflected that people no doubt laughed at the idea of the Air Battalion Royal Engineers (founded 1911) and the Royal Flying Corps (founded 1912).  So I should stop finding "Space Force" funny.

 

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1 hour ago, Edwardian said:

 

 

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One assumes that its an inspection tour by the General Staff* to find out what "Those damn Balloonists" are wasting all their money on.  Mind you, a B.E. 2 or its descendants wouldn't be my idea of an appropriate aircraft to face the Hun in.  They weren't called "Fokker Fodder" for nothing, y'know....

 

* Never trust anyone with feathers in their hats....

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17 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

This lady may look innocent (actually, I’m not at all sure she does), but she’s clearly bagged a large number of senior army officers.

 

 

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Definitely dangerous to know.....

 

And in the days before Photoshop, some poor devil had to spend hours working on the negative with a soft pencil (a practice known as loading the lead) to for the Young Lady to achieve a flawless complexion like that!  Once the print had been made, even more hours were spent tinting it!

 

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5 hours ago, Edwardian said:

 

Sorry, I heard the news on R4 and did an image search to see the 2 together, that was what came up!

 

So, by way of amends, Beleaguered Broadcasting Corporation

 

EDIT: Of course I still find a profound absurdity in the fact that the was a "Space Command" and is now a "Space Force", it sounds all a bit, well ....

 

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Above, Things you Never Thought you'd See in Castle Aching: "Matchbox Adventure 2000", No.23 in an occasional series.

 

But then I reflected that people no doubt laughed at the idea of the Air Battalion Royal Engineers (founded 1911) and the Royal Flying Corps (founded 1912).  So I should stop finding "Space Force" funny.

 

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It could have all been so different, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Space

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