The trouble with boris, heads up ch4 now
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cs02rm0 said:
I've noticed that the congestion zone isn't in danger of being extended out to Wales yet, which at one stage with Red Ken at the helm didn't look unlikely.
Indeed, but on a day to day basis I can't see any difference in the running of the city! its still rubbish!!!! And I really don't care who is in power, Boris is a clown surrounded by good advisors but we all know that! Livingstone is just as bad, whoever comes next will also be as bad, the world will still turn and we will still pay shed loads of tax!!!! Nothing changes!
What a steaming pile of horses
t (from somebody who has never been a massive Boris fan). This wasn't a documentary, it was an agenda. Poorly conceived and with absolutely no substantive evidence except the word of Keith Vaz ( 
) and some tape transcripts from nearly 20 years ago, it almost felt like I was watching an old Soviet propaganda film at some points.
Dispatches, hang your heads in shame.
t (from somebody who has never been a massive Boris fan). This wasn't a documentary, it was an agenda. Poorly conceived and with absolutely no substantive evidence except the word of Keith Vaz ( ) and some tape transcripts from nearly 20 years ago, it almost felt like I was watching an old Soviet propaganda film at some points.Dispatches, hang your heads in shame.
Parrot of Doom said:
...not worth watching.
My old sky box started playing up half way through... I just gave up, it wasn't interesting me, as said above just a carefully poured over slime attack, made safe for the meeja. There was little or no coroboration, every member interviewed as either Liberal or Labour, very very poor journalism in my mind. Reminds me just why I rarely watch T.V. any more. Now, if Louis Theroux had done it.....In all fairness if you remove the expectation of balance, it's just what you would expect from a Guardian journalist doing an investigation into Boris Johnson's first year in office.
That's why I hate the way the broadcasting rules are in the UK. You supposedly aren't allowed to make biased programmes, so people have this expectation that the TV is fair and balanced, then you have programmes like that...
Of course investigative journalism will always be crap if the journalist is a wrong headed goombah to start with.
That's why I hate the way the broadcasting rules are in the UK. You supposedly aren't allowed to make biased programmes, so people have this expectation that the TV is fair and balanced, then you have programmes like that...
Of course investigative journalism will always be crap if the journalist is a wrong headed goombah to start with.
Contact C4 (post up if anyone has a better link):
http://help.channel4.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?N...
http://help.channel4.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?N...
My email to C4 went:
email said:
I found this programme shockingly one sided - it seemed as if you were providing a platform for a Guardian journalist who clearly has rather a large axe to grind with Boris Johnson. It will certainly do the reputation of Dispatches as a serious current affairs programme no good whatsoever. May I suggest that you raise the bar in future and try to present some balance to your current affairs programming?
Randy Winkman said:
Adrian W said:
What happened to balance? I thought it was one of the terms of C4s licence, The bloke obviously doesn't like Boris and C4 have given him the tools to voice his opinion.
The balance is that they did the same sort of thing about Ken this time last year.You might think it relevant that the GLA precept has not risen, for the first time ever (under the previous incumbent it doubled). You might think it notable that Boris has pushed ahead a scheme that looks capable of reducing biker, cyclist and pedestrian injuries, where the previous incumbent tried to cover up the research. You may consider it relevant that tube prices went up in line with the business plan signed off by the previous incumbent (who failed to reconcile this with an election promise not to increase prices - a pledge he had made at previous elections and failed to keep). You might be a member of that group (which includes pretty much the entire population of London, including serving officers) who had lost all faith in Ian Blair. And you might remember the various promises Boris has kept.
But Dispatches is polemic, not documentary. It is not meant to be balanced. Just because you disagree with the content, or believe that it relies on poorly constructed arguments, doesn't mean it shouldn't be made. You need to decide whether the host made valid points, or is just a whiny, tunnel-visioned fool. I did watch it, and I think you can guess my opinion.
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