News "Analysis" and Unncecessary Outside Broadcasts
This drives me up the fucking wall. All these talking heads they get on the news to pad the thing out by "analysing" it. I don't want the news analysed. I can understand it just fine thank you very much, and if there is something I don't understand (and I care enough about it to want to understand it), I can look it up on this marvellous new thing called the Internet.

By far the worst example of this was during the run up to the Iraq invasion. There was that final meeting at the UN where they couldn't agree on anything so the war mongers in the US and UK governments just gave up and blamed the French for not letting them get their way. I was watching this live on BBC News 24, and basically they broadcast what the UK, the US, and the French representatives said and very little of what anyone else said (I do have to say that Dominque De Villepan spoke wonderfully well and logically on the subject at hand). The rest of it was pictures from the UN with some cuntfuck jabbering over the top of it. Hello! There are sixteen other nations represented around that table, all of whom get a vote before anyone gets to veto anything, so wouldn't it be an idea to find out what their mood is instead of just assuming that everyone except the French would vote for it? As I recall, both Russia and China were talking of vetoing as well, but that wasn't really up for discussion.

The BBC regularly do this with the Budget as well. As soon as the chancellor's speech is over, show a couple of minutes of the opposition response then cut to a load of has been politicians and other assorted pundits around a table. Thank heavens for BBC Parliament!

And then there is the matter of pointless outside broadcasts. It's ten o'clock at night and there is some reporter stood in front of the Old Bailey with a full outside broadcast unit telling everyone about some case that has been going on. Why is he still there? What a fucking waste of our license money. All those people standing around outside an empty building waiting for news of a case that isn't going to resume until the following day just so the news team can show that they're on the scene and ready to report anything that happens as it happens in the assumption that we'll all be terribly impressed by that. Send the outside broadcast unit home and put the reporter back in the studio where he belongs; it's cheaper and less pretentious.

They do it whenever there's flooding. Send someone out to stand in the flood waters and do a report. Why? Do they think that we don't know what water looks like? If all the reporters got out the water, it would probably be a few feet lower!

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(An eejit passing by in a purple satin skirt with sparkly bits, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 22:46, 6 replies)

Not forgetting
the guy standing outside the site of a murder or arrest for something high profile who actually has less idea what's going on then the guy in the studio.

Most of the time it goes something like this:
Studio: A man has been arrested for the murder of Some Woman. We understand from his neighbours that he is Bob Bloke who kept himself to himself. Jim Journalist is at the scene. Jim.
Jim: Yes earlier today a man who locals say was Bob Bloke has been driven away in a police car. We believe it has something to do with the murder of Some Woman. Neighbours say he was quiet.
Studio: So what can you tell us about Bob Bloke Jim?
Jim: Well fuck all to be honest. It's ten at night and I'm standing in the middle of a residential street in the rain. If I had been at the police station or the back office on the new studio I might have a better idea.

Well, maybe not that last bit, but I bet it's what they are thinking.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 2 Apr 2011, 23:13, closed)

If we privatised the BBC and all the other unelected commie quangos, this kind of thing would never happen again.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 2 Apr 2011, 23:28, closed)

Nope
Sky do it even more than the BBC
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 13:58, closed)

Yes, but Sky sponsor the Party so it's OK for them to do it.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 23:51, closed)

Even more irritating
The guy standing outside a petrol station to tell us prices have gone up. And the one who has to stand by the M25 to tell us there are traffic jams.
(lolwhites, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 9:20, closed)

Clicked
Just for "If all the reporters got out the water, it would probably be a few feet lower". Made me giggle!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 12:33, closed)