Radio Bloody Four
I am an unashamed R4 addict. I have radios strategically placed throughout the house so that the Today programme is clearly audible during all aspects of dragging my sorry carcass out of bed, making it marginally less smelly, and fucking off to work.

One day I will murder in cold blood the Mrs for turning off Today when I am still listening. One day...

However, today on Today (didja see what I did there?) they obviously were using the reserve team. New boy Evan Davies.

Former BBC Economics Chap.

Interviewing the CEO of a fairly hefty bank.

Used the word 'dosh'.

'Dosh'.

Dumbing down? Now I know that I am (just)old and grumpy enough to be part of their key demographic, but what the zarking fardwarks is going on? Are they trying to appeal to da yoof? Is Today descending into sub-Newsround language to appease those who say that everything should descend to the level of the hard of thinking? Or is he just an annoying pus-filled buboe lurking within Satan's unwashed buttock crevice?

Growl.

With added Grrrr.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:37, 6 replies)

Yeah...
heard it and was suitably outraged. I hope John Humphries took him out the back of the building and gave him a good old fashioned slap.
( Ramsay Tupper, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:40, closed)

Well Quite
I hope it was a severe slapping which he recorded on his mobile phone so we could all enjoy!
(scowners shagged his mum on, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:44, closed)

FFS!
Dosh?!

Were I not in deepest darkest foreign I'd have been tempted to become "apoplectic of Greenwich"!
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Tue 6 May 2008, 12:56, closed)

Not just language
The other day, on the main top o' the hour news, was an item on two Aussies caught by a cop car while base-lining or something - jumping off an office block with a parachute.

Excuse me, but WHAT THE FUCK was that doing on a proper news bulletin?????

Same with the bloody McCartney/Mills soap opera, this is not news, it is gossip. And while I'm here, why the flip do we have to have every single blow-by-blow account of the race to become the Democrat nomination for an election still SIX MONTHS away????

I bet there are elections in other countries, like, say, Brazil, that we never hear about. Why can't R4 do the World Service headlines at least three times a day, say, 7am, 6pm and 10pm?

I'd write in if I thought.....
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 6 May 2008, 13:26, closed)

I sympathise. I even wrote to complain...
...after a newsreader on News 24 referred to alcohol and tobacco as "Fags and Booze." If he'd done it once I'd have given him the benefit of the doubt; we all make mistakes. But he kept saying it. Just because these colloquialisms are widely used, it doesn't mean they're proper English words. They are still colloquialisms. They are still slang. Please keep them out a news report which is potentially going out to the entire country.

I was only 21 when this happened. I despair for my state of mind in later life.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 6 May 2008, 13:57, closed)

@scowner
Humphreys owning a camera phone? Doubt it...
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:20, closed)