B-BBC STANDARDS

>> Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Hi All. Can I ask for you to please ensure that your strong and passionate views of BBC bias are expressed in civil terms. There is too much inappropriate language and it only takes away from so many good points. Thank for your understanding and support.

9 comments:

Asuka Langley Soryu 5:58 PM, January 26, 2010  

Up yours! Just kidding.

Grant 6:54 PM, January 26, 2010  

Well, David, we have been here many times before  ! 
I agree with you , in principle,  but wouldn't want to rein in Martin whose use of  "inappropriate language "  is often inspiringly creative and
entertaining !
And , for an englishman, he is surprisingly intelligent.

David vance 7:21 PM, January 26, 2010  

Asuka

LOL!

Grant

There is plenty of intelligence here! But too much sweary language and I would like to see it stopped now.

Jack Bauer 8:03 PM, January 26, 2010  

*#$k me. I blame Kenneth Tynan.

Martin 8:22 PM, January 26, 2010  

From a jock I take that as a compliment 8-) , I try to be on good behaviour but sometimes trolls and beeboids just make it impossible to resist.

Grant 8:48 PM, January 26, 2010  

Martin

Keep on trucking  !!   Your deep-fried mars bar awaits you if you ever venture north.

David

You are beginning to sound like she who must be obeyed !  Of course, I am whiter than white and never swear on this website.

Jack

I don't remember Tynan posting here .  But, personally , I blame the Anglo-Saxon  leftist , revisionist claque.  After all, we have no swear words in Gaelic.

hippiepooter 10:51 PM, January 26, 2010  

Yes, we have to take into account that as an ex-soldier Martin is suffering from shell-shock and sometimes loses all control.  The cure for this is DV sentencing him to peeling spuds.

dave s 12:25 AM, January 27, 2010  

It might be worth the BBC adopting a few standards. Finishing work late I switched on BBC3 - a programme about UFOs. I switched off after 15 minutes. The presenter one Danny Dyer apart from being rude  appears to be functionally illiterate and the possessor of an east end accent like no other , exaggerated beyond belief and impossible to listen to for more than a few micro seconds. And we pay a tax for this rubbish and to this man ?
It is enough to drive any sane man to a torrent of abuse and four letter words. But I think we can safely leave that to the BBC.

Mick 9:32 AM, January 27, 2010  

@dave s.
If you had kept watching he was also using sweary that would have reall upset DV, and even as someone who swears myself, I didn't see the need for all the 'effing in an 'effing lightweight 'documentary'!

Antony Jay

"But we were not just anti-Macmillan; we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."
Antony Jay, Telegraph, July 2007

Andrew Marr

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."
Andrew Marr, The Guardian Feb. 1999

Jeremy Paxman

"But the bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future. Working for it has always been a bit like living in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year-plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another. One BBC, Making it Happen, Creative Futures, they all blur into one great vacuous blur. I can’t even recall what the current one is. Rather like Stalin’s Russia, they express a belief that the system will go on forever."
Jeremy Paxman, The James McTaggart Memorial, 24th August 2007

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