Let’s talk about BBC

[Pblakeney]

I suspect you've all seen footage from the catastrophe in Nepal. The first bits I saw I thought were bad AI, then I saw the other clips.

Well, you'd have thought that the BBC might have given a bit more context than 'flash flooding'. What TF are they so afraid of? This is the kind of avoidance of the bleedin' obvious context that could well be the work of Reform. "Don't mention global warming!!"

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I have seen it, and I was completely taken away by the scale.
I can’t be the only one who pictured a 6-8 foot wave

 

[Rusty Nails]

Perhaps the BBC should get someone like this to read the news:

 

[Pblakeney]

Perhaps the BBC should get someone like this to read the news:

I hear that the pay and benefits are quite good. Count me in! 😂

 

[Pross]

Did the inspiration for BBC’s Saturday night game show Picture Slam come from Mitchell & Webb’s Numberwang?

 

[Beebo]

Very interesting picture that the BBC have chosen to illustrate the story of migrants being returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

It must have been a very deliberate editorial decision.

A blonde blue eyed girl. Not what many people would consider the usual type. She’s being sent back to a very uncertain future.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e074nn8eko

 

[secretsqirrel]

Very interesting picture that the BBC have chosen to illustrate the story of migrants being returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

It must have been a very deliberate editorial decision.

A blonde blue eyed girl. Not what many people would consider the usual type. She’s being sent back to a very uncertain future.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e074nn8eko

Reminds me of this from 1984 National Geographic. There was another picture in the same BBC article of a fair skinned little girl bright eyes. Definitely deliberate.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Hard to believe she was only 12 yrs old in that photograph.

 

[matticus]

Very interesting picture that the BBC have chosen to illustrate the story of migrants being returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan.

It must have been a very deliberate editorial decision.

A blonde blue eyed girl. Not what many people would consider the usual type. She’s being sent back to a very uncertain future.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e074nn8eko

Do you think it was a good decision?

 

[Beebo]

Do you think it was a good decision?

Yes. If it makes people a little less judgmental

 

[Psamathe]

I happened to watch BBC 18:00 news yesterday (not by choice) and the item about the Met Office releasing that this year was the "Hottest summer Ever" (in the UK) yet the newsreader was calling it "warmest" - despite the graphic in the background saying "hottest". Struck me as using "warm" was underplaying the impact somewhat.

 

[Rusty Nails]

 

[Rusty Nails]

I happened to watch BBC 18:00 news yesterday (not by choice) and the item about the Met Office releasing that this year was the "Hottest summer Ever" (in the UK) yet the newsreader was calling it "warmest" - despite the graphic in the background saying "hottest". Struck me as using "warm" was underplaying the impact somewhat.

You've clearly never seen their reporter Justin Rowlatt telling us we're doomed.

 

[Ian H]

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Only three? Lightweight!

 

[Ian H]

A subtle commentary.
https://kmflett.blog/2026/09/02/reform-conference-bbc-chris-mason/

 

[briantrumpet]

It's just stenography from Mason, again, just reporting verbatim what Farage says in response to the various investigations. That's not a political editor's job: it *should* be to ask "Why is this b'stard lying to me?", whatever party they are from, especially the ones who lie so frequently and easily.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6857j2v1qo