Archive for August 8th, 2006

The BBC ‘have your say’ pull quotes comes under fire – biased BBC

Sigh – Now mostly I find B-BBC and such a bunch of nutters, but they’re allowed their opinion all the same. Though it’s hard to take seriously the thoughts of someone who uses words like ‘raghead’ Anyway this blog post… bangs on about the repeated use of a quote from ‘Nikki’ of Warwickshire. Here’s how (I think) this happened. Often news journalists ‘clone’ a story, as in adapt an all ready published one as new information comes in. Now the first journo picked the quote out, no doubt, and then subsequent additions and revisions have happened, and they’ve just not updated the quote.. It’s not like a journo has searched through every post and STILL come up with that one as the best one. They (should) have no other agenda other than to report the facts. Should they have refreshed the quote…. probably.

News sometimes do the same for images, as in advance the story on, but use images from the pervious version. Hence this. The information coming from the ground might update 10-15 times in 24 hours. The news wires might get a dribble of jpegs in that time. The BBC must be clear on its image attribution, so we don’t end up with one crying old lady symbolising destruction many different towns.

And ‘Rottypup’, wtf is that all about? It’s laughable that someone so pro Israel would align themselves with the most Germanic of hounds, a.k.a the butcher’s dog. And as it’s war, Churchill crops up.. What’s not to like, American Mother, defeated Hitler, coined ‘Iron Curtain’, admired by Dubya, on record as pro-Israel. Off record as a lot of other things.

Crystal Palace on Fire

News item on the Crystal Palace fire in 1936 – complete with Mr Chumley-Warner commentary.

Great British Beer Festival Bog Queue

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Must have been around 150m long… unbelievable. Cue a coupel of girls shreeking with laughter and shouting at me ‘take a photo, take a photo, this never happens to guys! Now you know how we feel!’

Earls Court being more of a gig venue, has something like 66% female toilets. A beer festival by it’s very nature has something like 80% guys attending…

In the end folks were going in the sinks (when you gotta go, you gotta go) and they had to ‘convert’ some of the ladies into gents. All of the ladies had a steward on the door as apprently the day before there’d been an ‘incident’ as a load of lads gate crashed the ladies loos.

To be honest I much prefer it when it’s at Olympia, the ceiling’s higher and it feels cooler, lighter and most….. well. British.


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