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Crap or Not Crap?

Crap?
Total votes: 1 (4%)
Not Crap?
Total votes: 23 (96%)
Total votes: 24

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31 by Adam CR
simmo wrote:Oh, and I trawled for a long time to find this. Please do watch it. It's one of the most amazing pieces of journalism I've ever seen in my life.


I'm offering a large, tasty bun to anybody who can watch that clip in it's entirety.

I lasted as far as 'fool of himself'.

[ready to explode into violence face]

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33 by Nico Adie_Archive
Rodabod wrote:
simmo wrote:Oh, and I trawled for a long time to find this. Please do watch it. It's one of the most amazing pieces of journalism I've ever seen in my life.


What a fucking arse-piece.


I was going to go for "cunt-flap", but they're both means to an end.

Fox is a spoof. I'm sure of it.
"Why stop now, just when I'm hating it?" - Marvin

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35 by YO31_Archive
Fox News wrote: David Kelly comitted suicide over the story.


WTF?

The beeb may not be perfect, but if gardening shows and Eastenders are the price we have to pay for not hearing complex chains of events in a foreign country presented as a self righteous xenophobic tirade, then so be it.

Also 'In our time' = totaly not crap. Not Crap.

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36 by sparky_Archive
Whilst I'd still vote Not Crap, here's a WF for you, reported on the BBC website itself:
Cracker writer Jimmy McGovern has accused the BBC of being "one of the most racist institutions in England" during an interview on BBC Five Live.

The award-winning writer said while there were "lots of black faces in the BBC", they were working in the canteen.

...

In March, Jonathan Ross said during his live Radio 2 show that too many black people at the BBC were in low-paid jobs.

"How many black people have they got working on proper shows there?," he said at the time.

"You know the BBC still haven't really come up to speed. I mean they are trying, God bless them.

"Most of the guys you see there are either working on the door, carrying a cloth in there and cleaning up. We haven't really made the effort yet."

In 2001, after being appointed director general of the BBC, Greg Dyke accused the corporation of being "hideously white".


From the little I've had contact with the BBC (friends in it, friends of friends, etc), I suspect that this is more due to the chumminess of the organisation, which is common to most British (well, London at least) media industries. A dash of Oxbridge, a pinch of Trust fund to make up for the low starting pay, in some cases... I know this awfully nice fella from back in...

In other words, the racism that the BBC is accused of is not personal, or deliberate, but very institutionalised.

Needs work. But still Not Crap.
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