It's not just the press thoughHave you seen Panorama lately?
The Beeb and ITV news are obsessed with scare-mongering stories about everything from cvomputers, the economy to travel.
If there's a computer/internet angle to a seemingly pointless story they run it.
A year or two ago, Panorama ran a show about online gambling, but at no point did they say that gambling was gambling whether you did it online or ina betting shop. Somehow the fact that it was 'online' made it a different/worse proposition.
I wrote to BBC Newswatch about it and got completely ignored.
You should go to the PCC ...
(The Beeb and ITV news are obsessed with scare-mongering stories about everything from cvomputers, the economy to travel.
If there's a computer/internet angle to a seemingly pointless story they run it.
A year or two ago, Panorama ran a show about online gambling, but at no point did they say that gambling was gambling whether you did it online or ina betting shop. Somehow the fact that it was 'online' made it a different/worse proposition.
I wrote to BBC Newswatch about it and got completely ignored.
You should go to the PCC ...
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Wed 3 Sep 2008, 12:46,
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we can't win thoughif we keep our kids off the streets in fear of them getting knifed, they'll stay at home and become paedos, because that's what the internet does to people
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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Wed 3 Sep 2008, 12:49,
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The ITV evening news is (as a b3tan better than me described it) The Fear newsit's a travesty of broadcasting
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Wed 3 Sep 2008, 13:02,
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The BBC is far from perfectbut it's streets ahead of The Sun, The Daily Mail, FOX News, etc. for little things like facts and balance
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Manic can teach you the secret of fire,
Wed 3 Sep 2008, 13:07,
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