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BBC News is useless

  • 06-02-2014 11:13PM
    #1
    stpaddy99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭


    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


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  • #2
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    You've little to be worrying about.

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


  • #3
    The_Gatsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭The_Gatsby


    Every news channel has an agenda.


  • #4
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Their small budget is a big factor.


  • #5
    Me?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


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


  • #6
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    And they keep mentioning some place called Londonderry


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  • #7
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,306 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #12
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • #13
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Fiona Bruce was looking well earlier.


  • #14
    The_Gatsby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭The_Gatsby


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Fiona Bruce was looking well earlier.

    A lot better than Miriam O'Callaghan anyway


  • #15
    stpaddy99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭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


  • #16
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The_Gatsby wrote: »
    A lot better than Miriam O'Callaghan anyway

    Dont be picking on Miriam.


  • #17
    folbotcar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭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.


  • #18
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,433 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    TV3 newz is bleedin' rappeh!!

    :D


  • #20
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    dale_scully
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16 ✭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


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  • #22
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭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?!?

    :confused:

    Each to their own, I suppose...


  • #23
    stpaddy99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭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


  • #24
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Have I got news for you!


  • #25
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    1stimpressions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭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/


  • #27
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


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


  • #28
    sawdoubters
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭sawdoubters


    I read the sun for my news and page 3


  • #29
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


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


  • #30
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #31
    coolbeans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,199 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    Me? wrote: »
    Unless you are in the UK why is it relevant? Anglicized?

    Yeah, he is like you and everyone else here.


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