Another BBC jamboree..bless

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Mojocvh

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16,837 posts

261 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Off on their summer holidays to the Island of Reunion just in case some wore wreckage washes up.

Took then a few days to get there mind....no doubt the expenses were rung up..kershring..

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Eric Mc

121,785 posts

264 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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It'll definitely be "wore" by the time it's recovered.

Corpulent Tosser

5,459 posts

244 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?

Eric Mc

121,785 posts

264 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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No apparently.

In fact, it is obvious that, for radio anyway, they are using more and more local reporters rather than having somebody based there.

Cheese Mechanic

3,157 posts

168 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Corpulent Tosser said:
Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?
I think the likely point is that the BBC have deployed more people than it took to invade Poland. I assume?

rohrl

8,712 posts

144 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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This forum should be renamed N,P&BBC.

truck71

2,328 posts

171 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Cheese Mechanic said:
I think the likely point is that the BBC have deployed more people than it took to invade Poland. I assume?
Indeed, however does the OP actually know that?

GnuBee

1,272 posts

214 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Corpulent Tosser said:
Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?
1) Of course they <should|should not> they're after all a very <right|left> wing organisation with a <clear|unclear> political bias

2) Of course they should but only if paid for by people who wanted them to go their and were asked first - using the license fee is a clear infringement of my human rights, my right to choose, my right to err... post on fora?

3) Of course they should because this will allow them to continue as the central hub of the global warming conspiracy as they cloak their attempts to fulfill their own prophecy of a man made mass extinction event under the guise of reporting

4) Of course they should but only if they ensure there's a deaf, dumb, black lesbian paraplegic used as the main anchor specifically to anger the PH massive

5) This just another example of the self-aggrandising, left wing, lefty, bloated, mandatory taxation, over managed, over inclusive, under inclusive, too youth oriented, too middle class oriented BBC and I'm oot - at least with Sky I know it's unbiased... oh wait

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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rohrl said:
This forum should be renamed N,P&BBC.
Nakedness, porn and big black cocks?

FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Corpulent Tosser said:
Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?
Yes, but what is the point of sending a team there? To look at a beach, in the sun, next to a holiday villa and cocktail bar.............oh.

They could alternatively use the available film and pictures and talk about it in the studio, they do not need a team to go all the way to Reunion Island so they can stand on the beach pointing to a piece of washed up plastic and saying "this could be from the Malaysian jet".

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Cheese Mechanic said:
I think the likely point is that the BBC have deployed more people than it took to invade Poland. I assume?
Always best to assume.

Did the BBC cover the invasion of POland? I wonder how many people they sent? scratchchin

Edited by Countdown on Tuesday 4th August 12:53

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Axionknight said:
rohrl said:
This forum should be renamed N,P&BBC.
Nakedness, porn and big black cocks?
I'm guessing you've been googling and pressed "CTRL-V" by mistake?

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Corpulent Tosser said:
Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?
Do they have to be there for that?

And In today's news some wreckage possibly from flight xxxxxx washed up on a small island in Indian/Pacific Ocean wherever

Here's a picture of a map.

Next David Cameron looking very concerned,


TTwiggy

11,500 posts

203 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
Corpulent Tosser said:
Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?
Yes, but what is the point of sending a team there? To look at a beach, in the sun, next to a holiday villa and cocktail bar.............oh.

They could alternatively use the available film and pictures and talk about it in the studio, they do not need a team to go all the way to Reunion Island so they can stand on the beach pointing to a piece of washed up plastic and saying "this could be from the Malaysian jet".
Why spend good license fee money on actual film when a pencil drawing of an aeroplane would do? smile

Otispunkmeyer

12,558 posts

154 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Cheese Mechanic said:
Corpulent Tosser said:
Not sure what the problem is here, shouldn't BBC cover news like this ?
I think the likely point is that the BBC have deployed more people than it took to invade Poland. I assume?
Plus they're really bothered by CO2 and climate change, so you'd think that going all that way to film a beach where a part washed up would be something they'd probably be averse to on the grounds of saving us all.

unrepentant

21,212 posts

255 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
Yes, but what is the point of sending a team there? To look at a beach, in the sun, next to a holiday villa and cocktail bar.............oh.

They could alternatively use the available film and pictures and talk about it in the studio, they do not need a team to go all the way to Reunion Island so they can stand on the beach pointing to a piece of washed up plastic and saying "this could be from the Malaysian jet".
FFS, of course they should send a team to cover what is a major news story. What they don't need to do is send a team for BBC TV News, a team for Radio News, a team from BBC Online and a team for Newsbeat. But that's not what's happened presumably?

I'm no fan of the BBC or the ludicrously regressive way it's funded but it's ridiculous to say that they shouldn't cover major world events. I should add that as an ex pat Brit who doesn't pay a single cent towards the cost of it and who relies on it for an un jaundiced view of world events I think it offers me great value.

HoHoHo

14,980 posts

249 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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We used to supply the BBC and the amount of wastage was collosul, mind-blowing but fortunately for us revenue and profit generating.

I mean on a grand scale and our products had f-all to do with news.

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Cheese Mechanic said:
I think the likely point is that the BBC have deployed more people than it took to invade Poland. I assume?
I don't like the BBC much, but it's unfair to pin that one on them. I think it was ITN.

FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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unrepentant said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Yes, but what is the point of sending a team there? To look at a beach, in the sun, next to a holiday villa and cocktail bar.............oh.

They could alternatively use the available film and pictures and talk about it in the studio, they do not need a team to go all the way to Reunion Island so they can stand on the beach pointing to a piece of washed up plastic and saying "this could be from the Malaysian jet".
FFS, of course they should send a team to cover what is a major news story. What they don't need to do is send a team for BBC TV News, a team for Radio News, a team from BBC Online and a team for Newsbeat. But that's not what's happened presumably?

I'm no fan of the BBC or the ludicrously regressive way it's funded but it's ridiculous to say that they shouldn't cover major world events. I should add that as an ex pat Brit who doesn't pay a single cent towards the cost of it and who relies on it for an un jaundiced view of world events I think it offers me great value.
The debris found has been taken to France to be identified if it is actually from MH370, that is where the story is.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
The debris found has been taken to France to be identified if it is actually from MH370, that is where the story is.
so how is sending somebody to report from the island after the event necessary?