BBC : Fraudsters’ website shut in swoop
A website used by criminals to buy and sell credit card details and bank log-ins has been shut down after a police operation, the BBC has learned.
The Register : DarkMarket carder forum revealed as FBI sting
Leaked documents have confirmed that carder forum DarkMarket was actually an FBI sting operation.
The BBC just gets worse and worse. Police PR now – this to distract attention from something else maybe?
This is how BBC News deals with an unexpected event:
Normal news chatter
- event starts to break
Normal new chatter
Then the presenter tell you something is breaking
Yes, they are sure it is breaking
There may be pictures in a moment
Confirmation of the thing that is breaking
They will take you there in a moment
- the picture switches to the breaking news. You can see things happening
The presenter starts saying things like “There you are, and he is .. and he is talking about .. and we reported this then .. and as you can see .. and this is all about something we reported earlier .. and I do like the sound of my own voice .. and if the presenter who looks like a schoolboy is on he will have interrupted his colleague by now to make himself look more important .. and here we go straight to the event”
- event takes the screen
Presenter says “I do apologise, we seem to have missed the first part of that” or “We missed that but we hope to get a report soon”
And THEN they wheel in some person who has just as much of an idea as any random person across the globe and they sit and spout lots of “if, maybe, possibly, think, what could” and any other words that are there simply to fill space and keep this “expert” (remember the taxi driver?” from going to Sky or some other new network. (Actually, could I have a job like that? Have laptop, know where wikipedia is, can nod knowingly, sigh deeply, blame the left / the right / the unions / modern technology / the failure of the nuclear family…)
Just.switch.to.the.event.
We can cope, honestly. Thrown a caption or scrolling message up (make it fast though, not quite Network 7 speeds but faster than you go currently) but please just let us see it. Just because you are in a studio does not mean you have more a clue about a breaking event and lots of events are self-contained. So just switch.
Whenever you get the chance, do not tell me the news.
Show me the news.
http://bbc.co.uk
Is there anywhere that lists what programmes can be watched online? No.
Why? The main listings are atrocious, the navigation terrible, the design is dire and you cannot find, in a convenient list, what can be watched in full online. Why? Don’t they think people want to? Or should be stick to just what we know? I’d complain to them but it’s waste of time – I complained once about a reported Digging stuff and he got really annoyed. Didn’t change anything either – who the hell is going to Digg a TV show?
Time to find somewhere else to watch while working.
Who arrived, what they arrived in, who spoke, the music that was heard, who left, when they left, what message was on the Order of Service. And toward the end of the article:
The McRae family had asked that their privacy be respected with regard to the funeral.
What extra detail would the BBC have provided if that request had not been there? They could argue about where they define ‘funeral’ but for most I’d say it’s from when they leave their home to when they return.