BBC Cuts Costs: It’s Taking The Piss, But Not As We Know It
March 3, 2010
Anton Goryunov writes: The BBC has done what it does best yesterday by taking the piss, at the expense of the long suffering licence payers. As part of its costs cutting exercise the Corporation announced plans to scrap two irrelevant digital radio stations and a couple of websites that no one has ever heard of. BBC Director-General, Mark Thompson, said with a perfectly straight face, that the publicly funded broadcaster was intending to concentrate on making ‘better programmes’. Mr Thompson also let be known that the BBC was planning to continue providing ‘unbiased news’ and make it even better. Imagine for a moment a meeting between the top brass at the BBC where the groundbreaking decision on cutting costs was taken. Director General: People, we’re in serious trouble. We have...
Political Correctness Is Cool And Sexy, BBC Says. Plus It Helps Us Make Better Programmes
February 5, 2010
Anton Goryunov writes: Leaked documents reveal that the British Broadcasting Corporation has been using sophisticated techniques to hire people who hold politically correct views. According to a confidential internal memo, political correctness has been regarded by the top brass at the Corporation as an important component of its success. ‘PC is cool and helps us make better programmes,’ the memo says, pointing out that such jewels as the new look multicultural Eastenders, Gavin and Stacey, Little Britain, the new Doctor Who and Mock The Week would have never been made possible if not for PC. The document goes on to say: ‘Political correctness is soothing and comforting for anyone who likes that sort of thing. It is cuddly, sexy, non-intrusive and it gives us so much artistic freedom...
The Cult Of David Tennant Of The Dr Who Fame Is Weird. He’s Simply No Good
December 28, 2009
What’s this starnge adoration with David Tennant, the actor who has been playing the part of the Doctor in the BBC series Dr Who? Tennant is to acting what a cold sore is to kissing, or impotence to a loving relationship. He is hopeless, just hopeless. Would you like me to prove to you that he is hopeless in one short sentence? OK, here goes: if he had had any talent, he would not have been cast by the BBC to star in Dr Who. How about that? Simple, isn’t it? The BBC does not employ talented actors in the dramas. It’s not their style. Tennant’s main problem is that he overacts all the time. All the bloody time! There’s never a moment when he underacts, if there’s such thing as underacting, or acts in a proper sense of the word. And he does that strange stare...
A Passionate Defence Of The BBC. And Of Its Hard Working Executives
November 14, 2009
Adam Lovejoy writes: I would like to voice my defence of the BBC and the wonderful and talented people who run it, including its Director General, Mark Thompson, and all of his deputies and senior executives. A vicious campaign has been unleashed against these fine people by some sections of the media, accusing them of receiving huge salaries, as if they do not deliver for the money they are getting. So what if the top 37 BBC executives earn more than the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. What has Mr Brown done for the country, compared to the tireless work that these people at the BBC carry out? Just let me give you some examples of what the hard working executives at the BBC, earn so that you will understand better why I am so angry with hacks who are having a go at them for supposedly...
Labour Has Created A Monster. And Is Now Terrified Of It
October 24, 2009
Thomas Mathew writes: On the Richter scale of political correctness, if such a scale would have existed, the shockwave of PC in Britain over this week would have measured somewhere around 11.Scores of people came out against the leader of the far-right British National Party, Nick Griffin, who had appeared on BBC’s Question Time programme on Thursday, to register their revulsion with his racist and homophobic views. All the British newspapers have been running the Griffin story for days, repeating each other and condemning and ridiculing and mocking the BNP. Some people were criticising the BBC itself for allowing Griffin to come to the show at all. As I watched that frenzy of political correctness, I concluded two things: first of all, the real issue was not Griffin and his deeply offensive...
Let’s Be Bold. Let’s Ban Advertising On Terrestrial Television
October 11, 2009
Adam Lovejoy writes: Let us be bold and practical for a change. Let’s ban advertising from the British terrestrial television. Confused and bewildered? Well, let me explain myself. I think that most people have had enough of being forced to watch those stupid TV ads, over and over again, that never really convince anyone to buy anything. Despite what the slimy advertising executives tell company directors, persistent TV advertising annoys most of the people and can even turn them against the brand that is being plugged, or the service that is being offered. Not to mention that the annoying celebs, who are so often used in advertising campaigns, make things even worse. I personally have never met a single person in my life who would have told me: ‘I find TV advertising very helpful...
BBC Edits The Words Of A Brave Major. What The Hell Is Wrong With The BBC?
October 8, 2009
Christopher Lee writes: In a grumpy mood this morning, shirts not back from the laundry, wife not back from the pub, Portsmouth not back from anywhere… Usual Acacia Avenue breakfast time. I stopped to listen to the BBC’s Today programme playing an edited recording of Major Richard Streatfeild’s diary. Who is Major Streatfeild? He commands A company 4 Rifles. Today A company leaves the UK for the upper Sangin Valley in Afghanistan. This morning, on the Today programme they played his diary, or so we thought. We heard him talking about his fears of making mistakes, of risking the lives of his men & hoping he would stay alive to take his son to the first day of the Ashes test at Lord’s. It was morbid, almost defeatist. Totally demoralizing. So I checked the full version,...
Monty Python Flying Circus Hits 40. Stirring Trouble Is Not Impressed
October 5, 2009
Let me say something that will upset a lot of nerdy types out there, who consider themselves to be connoisseurs of humour and comedy: Monty Python Flying Circus, the supposedly ground breaking humorous TV comedy series and it’s cinematographic spin-offs, was never anything special and not even particularly funny. Most of it was simply childish and amateurish and consisted of a bunch of odd looking men talking endlessly in silly voices, coming up with meaningless absurdities and dressing up in women’s clothes. I would even go as far as saying that the Monty Python team, consisting of Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and John Cleese, was one of the most politically correct comedy acts, in a liberal, left-wing sort of way.I have never actually understood myself...
Pictures Of Life In France
September 7, 2009
Thomas Mathew writes: I have just returned from France, where I occasionally listened to the BBC World Service radio. I have to ask: is the World Service so short of money that it had no option during the past two weeks but to keep broadcasting the same boring news report concerning China’s one child per family policy? Or is it that the BBC is now obsessed with matters of keeping birth numbers down generally, and in China in particular? Bizarre, very bizarre. Staying with the BBC World Service. The difference between reports on the French news and reports on the BBC World Service was startling at times. Last week the French news service informed its listeners that large numbers of citizens in Germany were expressing their outrage, because a German officer, who is currently in charge of...
Breaking News. From The Beatles Of Current Affairs
September 6, 2009
As it is Sunday today the Stirring Trouble team, the Beatles of current affairs, as they are known, has been working hard in the morning, compiling a new selection of breaking news items. Most of the members of the team were nurturing a hangover, after two days of drinking, so please, if anyone gets offended by some of the breaking news reports just remember: they have been written by people who are not in control of their senses.Breaking News: The British Broadcasting Corporation, according to the latest poll, is so popular in Britain that most people are prepared just to worship it. Without watching it or listening to it. Breaking News: US presidential hopeful, Sarah Palin, forces herself to deny again that she had had a fling with President Barack Obama. He is not big enough for me, she...
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