The bbc, again.

[McAhuna]

BBC blows £18m in just three years on trains, taxis and hotels

Kemi Badenoch reacted in disbelief to the eyewatering figure spent on staff and contributors as the Tory leader said: 'I'm not sure how they've managed to spend so much.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

So when they jack the licence fee up again remember this.

No doubt the BBC will insist that they have to take care of their guests.

Guess what, most of these celebs and politicians are desperate to get on air, somehow I think they will do it for free.

Besides if they love the BBC so much and are willing to tell us it's great value for money then they should take one for the team and not claim expenses.

As for the staff, take the tube in London.

Weirdly I misread the headline as 'BBC blows £18 million on Trans'

Bloody fuming I was.

 

[McAhuna]

Do they still have that programme? I can't remember what it was called - it was that Ann from the Weakest Link for a while or something? They would make fun of the letters of complaint - although I seem to remember they did act on the odd one. Obviously not at all on others.
Presumably, it was just creative licence anyway - judging by how they work. The letters were just in the general tone or written by Ronnie Barker, or a guest writer or something. Oh yes, "Points of View". Trump should write into them.

I wonder if they all had a jolly good chortle at the letter of complaints they received about Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, etc.

The counts.

 

[McAhuna]

If there's a Trump lawsuit who's going to pay for that?

Not me, I cancelled my licence long ago.

I hope the Counts licence fee gets doubled to pay Orange Man. Poetic justice at its finest.

 

[ASCPFC]

Weirdly I misread the headline as 'BBC blows £18 million on Trans'

Bloody fuming I was.

I remember seeing them having black cabs waiting for them at Heathrow. And I'd say with the meter running for the whole time. Even a minicab would be expensive but I'd say that a black cab into the city would be hundreds. No way could they just use the tube. You'd see that with the minor celebrities, journalists, executives, DJs and presenters, plus any guests.

 

[McAhuna]

I remember seeing them having black cabs waiting for them at Heathrow. And I'd say with the meter running for the whole time. Even a minicab would be expensive but I'd say that a black cab into the city would be hundreds. No way could they just use the tube. You'd see that with the minor celebrities, journalists, executives, DJs and presenters, plus any guests.

Not great, but it's well down their list of crimes for me.

The simplest thing is to cancel the licence. Provided you are sensible (cancel Iplayer accounts, etc) there is not much they can do.

 

[McAhuna]

Does anyone watch Black Belt Barrister?

The BBC are very unscrupulous (that's being generous) in chasing and threatening people for licences, often breaking the law themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAiXj07oIic

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Do they still have that programme? I can't remember what it was called - it was that Ann from the Weakest Link for a while or something? They would make fun of the letters of complaint - although I seem to remember they did act on the odd one. Obviously not at all on others.
Presumably, it was just creative licence anyway - judging by how they work. The letters were just in the general tone or written by Ronnie Barker, or a guest writer or something. Oh yes, "Points of View". Trump should write into them.

Not the Nine O'clock News had a sketch about Points of View - "I would willingly sell my house and all it's contents to help the BBC".

 

[ASCPFC]

Does anyone watch Black Belt Barrister?

The BBC are very unscrupulous (that's being generous) in chasing and threatening people for licences, often breaking the law themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAiXj07oIic

They use a mail official here. First time I answered I said "Me Ukrainian me love Ireland." Clever huh? Second time I said "me just visiting". Third time I said, "why don't you just f*** off". Haven't seen them since.

 

[eaglesdare]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986135482191827127

He does have a point. If GB news did what the BBC did then they would be shut down.

 

[Common Sense Club]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986135482191827127

He does have a point. If GB news did what the BBC did then they would be shut down.

Wisbech would personally do it.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986135482191827127

He does have a point. If GB news did what the BBC did then they would be shut down.

If GB News did that it would rightly be shut down because the resulting story would clearly be untrue.

Edits are often made to ensure the truth can be told clearly. There simply isn’t time in the time slot allocated to any documentary to play every quote verbatim. When a rambling, incoherent Trump is involved you must ensure your audience remains engaged. So the question with those that the Panorama programme made is, did they tell the truth?

When such divided opinions on that exist the answer is always likely to be a matter of opinion.

 

[Common Sense Club]

If GB News did that it would rightly be shut down because the resulting story would clearly be untrue.

Edits are often made to ensure the truth can be told clearly. There simply isn’t time in the time slot allocated to any documentary to play every quote verbatim. When a rambling, incoherent Trump is involved you must ensure your audience remains engaged. So the question with those that the Panorama programme made is, did they tell the truth?

When such divided opinions on that exist the answer is always likely to be a matter of opinion.

What?!

 

[Teddy Eagle]

If GB News did that it would rightly be shut down because the resulting story would clearly be untrue.

Edits are often made to ensure the truth can be told clearly. There simply isn’t time in the time slot allocated to any documentary to play every quote verbatim. When a rambling, incoherent Trump is involved you must ensure your audience remains engaged. So the question with those that the Panorama programme made is, did they tell the truth?

When such divided opinions on that exist the answer is always likely to be a matter of opinion.

If they'd told the truth there wouldn't be any problem. But they didn't; they changed the meaning of what he said.
The issue is bigger than this though - if the BBC falsified this story how do we know they don't do it all the time?

 

[ASCPFC]

What?!

You really need to get used to it.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

If they'd told the truth there wouldn't be any problem. But they didn't; they changed the meaning of what he said.
The issue is bigger than this though - if the BBC falsified this story how do we know they don't do it all the time?

Did they?

That’s the yet unanswered question, despite you, and others, thinking it has been.

It depends on when “what he said” is counted from. During the whole of the speech? In any individual passage? In the previous few days? Ever since he declared the election was “stolen”?

This will always be disputed, whatever the official decision turns out to be.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Did they?

That’s the yet unanswered question, despite you, and others, thinking it has been.

It depends on when “what he said” is counted from. During the whole of the speech? In any individual passage? In the previous few days? Ever since he declared the election was “stolen”?

This will always be disputed, whatever the official decision turns out to be.

Yes they did.

BBC accused of selectively editing Trump clip from day of Capitol attack

Panorama spliced together clips to make it appear clearer president encouraged attack, former external adviser says

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rudi Hedman]

I wonder if Guntri knows who the most 'ignored' poster is?

Hrolf is right, ignored people shouldn’t be able to reply to your posts.