BBC News is useless

stpaddy99

Its more like john cravens newsround such is its shallowness, its useless interviews and its biased agendas
really cant watch it naymore, you learn nowt watching it

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keeponhurling

You've little to be worrying about.

Maybe writing in a letter of complaint would make ya feel better ?

The_Gatsby

Every news channel has an agenda.

Sir Arthur Daley

Their small budget is a big factor.

Me?

Unless you are in the UK why is it relevant? Anglicized?

dundalkfc10

And they keep mentioning some place called Londonderry

RayM

I can't think of a less biased news channel than the BBC. People who accuse them of bias are usually quite extreme in their views.

ArmaniJeanss

The BBC, depending on your viewpoint its either a bastion of old school conservatism and middle England privilege, or else its full of socialist do-gooders with an underlying Trotskyite agenda.

Its probably doing quite a lot right if its politics pleases no-one.

Capt'n Midnight

That's why they have Newsnight over on BBC2 Or look at their News Channel or the stuff on Radio 4. try http://www.bbc.co.uk/news or the app

Channel 4 also do good news.

Femme_Fatale

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

The BBC, depending on your viewpoint its either a bastion of old school conservatism and middle England privilege, or else its full of socialist do-gooders with an underlying Trotskyite agenda.

Its probably doing quite a lot right if its politics pleases no-one.

Similar to RTE - seen as really liberal and right-on... or else really conservative and careful in what it reports. IMO it's neither.

Rabies

stpaddy99 wrote: »

Its more like john cravens newsround such is its shallowness, its useless interviews and its biased agendas
really cant watch it naymore, you learn nowt watching it

discuss

That's it OP. Give it your all

Capt'n Midnight

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

The BBC, depending on your viewpoint its either a bastion of old school conservatism and middle England privilege, or else its full of socialist do-gooders with an underlying Trotskyite agenda.

Its probably doing quite a lot right if its politics pleases no-one.

A guide to British Newspapers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

Sir Arthur Daley

Fiona Bruce was looking well earlier.

The_Gatsby

WikiHow wrote: »

Fiona Bruce was looking well earlier.

A lot better than Miriam O'Callaghan anyway

stpaddy99

WikiHow wrote: »

Fiona Bruce was looking well earlier.

in fairness shes a middle sged vixen, as are most of them , jane hill, sussanna reid, theyre all posh foxy totty

Sir Arthur Daley

The_Gatsby wrote: »

A lot better than Miriam O'Callaghan anyway

Dont be picking on Miriam.

folbotcar

The OP is right. The BBC news has badly declined. They make TV3 look good. But it's fair to say they're not alone. A lot TV journalism has gone downhill in terms of it's depth. If you ask me they're living off their reputation. You get more depth on After Hours for heaven's sake and more truth!

A while ago I was abroad and the only English speaking channel on TV was the BBC world news. It was awful. I ended up watching the foreign language channels.

wandatowell

I quite like BBC News.


Sometimes I even watch BBC Parliament channel. Grand for passing an hour and hearing about some really small mundane stuff.


Each to their own.

endacl

TV3 newz is bleedin' rappeh!!

Kintarō Hattori

Oh my gosh, I can't disagree more OP. It's a fantastic news channel. The reporting while not flawless is generally always of a very high standard. The newscasters and reporters are engaging and usually knowledgeable on current affairs while Sky News I find to be incredibly trashy.

No disseminator of news is going to please everyone but I have to doff my hat to them and say it's a fantastic channel.

dale_scully

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Similar to RTE - seen as really liberal and right-on... or else really conservative and careful in what it reports. IMO it's neither.

I think it leans left , so does RTE but RTE is far more establishment friendly than the BBC imo , rte is socialist but in a mary Robison way , sitting in the good seats while pontificating about hunger in Africa

endacl

folbotcar wrote: »

A while ago I was abroad and the only English speaking channel on TV was the BBC world news. It was awful. I ended up watching the foreign language channels.

Off topic...

You were abroad and would watch ANYTHING on telly, rather than get out and experience the country you were visiting? Seriously?!?



Each to their own, I suppose...

stpaddy99

its further left than ryan giggs.....the interviews are utterly biased and the 10 oclock news interviews are pitiful....additonally they edit the hell out of everything and tony robinson rewrites the political agenda every night. nothing is really in depth and certain sections of society are never investigated. the endless cover ups too. we can only imagine the corruption the back scratching that goes on behind closed doors

WoollyRedHat

Have I got news for you!

Femme_Fatale

stpaddy99 wrote: »

its further left than ryan giggs.....the interviews are utterly biased and the 10 oclock news interviews are pitiful....additonally they edit the hell out of everything and tony robinson rewrites the political agenda every night. nothing is really in depth and certain sections of society are never investigated. the endless cover ups too. we can only imagine the corruption the back scratching that goes on behind closed doors

Yep, "imagine" indeed. Real hotbed of corruption and backscratching is the BBC. Whatevz.

Someone saying the BBC has an extremely leftist agenda is what someone with a right-wing agenda would say. The BBC is very much unbiased.

1stimpressions

It is certainly not the worst but it has slipped from its previous high standards. These guys do a good job of calling them out on certain issues from a hard left viewpoint http://www.medialens.org/

Yellowblackbird

OP you're not fit to tie John Craven's shoe laces.

sawdoubters

I read the sun for my news and page 3

Fratton Fred

Can you imagine Jeremy Paxman interviewing Bertie Ahern? You could sell tickets for that.

keeponhurling

Still can't believe the OP is complaing about is.

They have the choice of Rte, TV3 and TG4. As they have the UK channels, they'll also have BBC, ITV and maybe Sky or others.

Surely one of those can satisfy their news requirements?

coolbeans

Me? wrote: »

Unless you are in the UK why is it relevant? Anglicized?

Yeah, he is like you and everyone else here.

Wacker The Attacker

WikiHow wrote: »

Fiona Bruce was looking well earlier.

For a woman of her age she looks fantastic. She's pushing fifty

Banjoxed

folbotcar wrote: »

The OP is right. The BBC news has badly declined. They make TV3 look good. But it's fair to say they're not alone. A lot TV journalism has gone downhill in terms of it's depth. If you ask me they're living off their reputation. You get more depth on After Hours for heaven's sake and more truth!

A while ago I was abroad and the only English speaking channel on TV was the BBC world news. It was awful. I ended up watching the foreign language channels.

The BBC News channel that we get is good, BBC World however is the television equivalent of an amalgam of every rubbishy magazine dumped in the waiting room of a dentist's surgery.

Banjoxed

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

For a woman of her age she looks fantastic. She's pushing fifty

That she is. Also, having the one-two knockout duo of Susanna Reid and Carol Kirkwood on Breakfast is worthy of mentions in dispatches.

Go on Carol, tell us again about rain "pooshing" it's way north again. Push it real good

Wacker The Attacker

Banjoxed wrote: »

That she is. Also, having the one-two knockout duo of Susanna Reid and Carol Kirkwood on Breakfast is worthy of mentions in dispatches.

Go on Carol, tell us again about rain "pooshing" it's way north again. Push it real good

The very lovely carol

Jimoslimos

Me? wrote: »

Unless you are in the UK why is it relevant? Anglicized?

Anglicized Americanised.

Eutow

stpaddy99 wrote: »

its further left than ryan giggs.....the interviews are utterly biased and the 10 oclock news interviews are pitiful....additonally they edit the hell out of everything and tony robinson rewrites the political agenda every night. nothing is really in depth and certain sections of society are never investigated. the endless cover ups too. we can only imagine the corruption the back scratching that goes on behind closed doors

That wouldn't be hard as Giggs hasn't played left wing for years. Every news channel has an agenda, some more than others. I would rather the BBC or Channel 4 news than Sky News.

Femme_Fatale

I don't know that every news channel has an agenda. Least of all BBC.

Stavros Murphy

It is useless. There's never even a bit of news about our village on it. Biddy Reilly passed there yesterday, not a word did they give the story.

Richard Hillman

The BBC are so, like, biased. I am going to stick to obscure blogs for my accurate news.

dxhound2005

All the radio stations are on TV now as well, Radio 4 was mentioned earlier and there is also the World Service. TV news was probably more like the radio version years ago, because of the technology then.

Now you are liable to see a lot of skype and camera phone reportage, like footage of foolish people walking too close to the ocean during a storm. And if there is film of some poor unfortunate falling to his/her death in a parachute accident or some spectacular film of a train hitting a lorry that will be shown over and over. Radio news is different, obviously because it is not visual.

Mycroft H

Radio 4 and the World Service are two top notch talk radio stations and the world service is about as unbiased as it gets. Their radio documentaries are good too.