ComplainingI like writing letters of complaint to companies containing the words "premier league muppetry", if only to give the poor office workers a good laugh on an otherwise dull day. Have you ever complained? Did it work?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 13:16)
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Coalition deal coverage on BBC R4 NewsI have not yet had a reply from the BBC in regard to the distortion of time / events during a news report broadcast in the immediate aftermath of the inconclusive election result earlier this year.
Essentially, the Friday 11pm news bulletin on R4 that week changed the running order of the three party leaders' initial proposals for meeting / discussing / offering deals to be something other than the chronological order in which they had taken place that day.
To my mind this hugely distorted the context of the speeches made. Indeed, it seemed to make one leader appear to reply to the speech of another which was unconnected and was not, in fact, made public first. It also seemed to delegate another leader to 'the back of the queue' in the power-sharing stakes.
I would still like to hear from the News & Current Affairs people as to what editorial decision was or wasn't made that evening in regard to this being broadcast in this defective/deceptive manner.
I'm not some paranoid conspiracy theorist, but this seemed like dereliction of duty, willful 'window-dressing' or a blatant abuse of power (possibly with very little actual outward effect).
(, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 10:47, 5 replies)
I think you can probably file this one under 'shit no-one cares about'.(
Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:58,
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I think we can file your opinion under 'shit no-one cares about.'(, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 14:35, closed)
Nothing quite as finalas the 'chirnk' of the chain rapidly followed by the 'swiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrsssssssssshhhhhssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss......sssssss.....ssssss......sssssssssssssssssssssssss,sssss, sssssssssssss........ of the flush.
(, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 15:24, closed)
Pretty much how news is always reported.Unfortunately we live in a society where you can't trust anything you see or hear in "the media" -- new stopped being in any way a real reporting of fact some time around the start of the second world war, I think.
(, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 16:22, closed)
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