Romantic Robot » BBC http://romanticrobot.net directionless. Wed, 23 May 2012 09:32:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Griffin2 http://romanticrobot.net/2009/10/23/griffin2/ http://romanticrobot.net/2009/10/23/griffin2/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:14:55 +0000 Mark http://romanticrobot.net/?p=874 Continue reading →]]> There is a stunning number of non-white people being asked about Nick Griffin. Statistically it is twisted. You could even say it is engineered.

Why did he have to give exact answers when no other politician in the history of the BBC (save the Paxman interview) has had that requirement?

Why did the BBC and why do they still keep up the self-promotion. If ITV had done this it would have been a nothing?

Why does one man still dominate the entire news schedule despite the rest of crap going on? Why? Because the BBC are controlled by either the big banks or politicians and they both want people to look the other way.

I’m ashamed that I am forced by law to prop up this bigoted organisation.

]]> http://romanticrobot.net/2009/10/23/griffin2/feed/ 0 Gag the BBC. http://romanticrobot.net/2008/08/08/gag-the-bbc/ http://romanticrobot.net/2008/08/08/gag-the-bbc/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:20:01 +0000 Mark http://69105.net/?p=142 Continue reading →]]> Dear Katy Searle,
Imagine a picture. It’s a picture you’d like to see. You can understand it – it’s not complex – and you just want to appreciate it. Now imagine someone coming over to the picture with a fat marker pen and starting to write all over it what they see, what it means to them, what is should mean to you, what it means to others, the cultural nuances displayed in it, how wonderful it is, how it compares to other pictures, what other pictures you should see. Then they pause and you hope for a moment they will stop and go away. But no, they produce a fresh marker pen and go over what they said. They use a few different words, they change the size of their text. They continue to describe to you what you are seeing despite the fact that what you want to see is being obscured by what they are doing. They haven’t the slightest idea that what they are doing is ruining your experience.
Or maybe they just write “drone-drone-drone” over and over and over again and slowly fill the image with what they want and think, not what you may want or think.
And what you end up with is not the picture you started to see.

The above is a perfect description of most (not all) the online BBC News reporters and today’s Olympic opening was a shining example of unnecessary verbosity.

Paid by the word are they?

Please – tell them to shut up.

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