:bbc: The BBC

ITV is the worst channel in the history of man.

What is the point on pushing news stories about it, when the majority of people aren’t interested? The problem with women’s football isn’t that it’s played with women, it’s that the quality is pretty crap. The same as women’s cricket. So why try to artificially make it more popular?

i’d like to back cherts up cos I’m team sarb, but I use BBC website quite often to get my Football News and Fixtures etc and I can’t recall that I’ve been forced to read about fannyball v.much. Maybe I just scan over it, or maybe, right, BBC has heard about sarb and they’re purposely trolling him by promoting women’s football only to his I.P. address.

I do think they prob do promote stuff they think we should care about, over things we do care about to some extent tho. One of the cbeebies presenters that I watch with my Nephew, she has got a Stump Arm, which is quite Culture. But they also do serve the uncultured dumb masses with i.e. Strictly Cum Dancing and i.e. Top Gear.

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See, I think the stump arm girl, along with the disabled children on ‘Something Special’ really help with youngsters views on what is normal. For instance, due to the two examples above my daughter (nearly 4) has never asked why someone is in a wheelchair, or if they look a bit different etc, as she is used to it, which is great.

However, I’m not sure what the BBC are hoping to get out of pushing women’s football more vigorously than both the quality and popularity deserves. Maybe they’re as sick as I am of hearing the high pitched screams coming from the crowd in the stands everytime the ball goes near the 18 yard box. However, if they want more men to attend and take notice, I really wouldn’t recommend showing clips of the football, as that is what put’s me off…

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Originally posted by @Chertsey-Saint

ITV is the worst channel in the history of man.

What is the point on pushing news stories about it, when the majority of people aren’t interested? The problem with women’s football isn’t that it’s played with women, it’s that the quality is pretty crap. The same as women’s cricket. So why try to artificially make it more popular?

You’ve obviously forgotten L!ve TV.

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Oh, totally. I mean they’ve promoted her prob over people with two arms, who might be better at the job, i.e. holding up paintings of twirlywoos that Olivia, 4, from Stourbridge has done, but I’m all for it.

There was a kid at our school with a Stump Arm, and cos I’d never seen a Stump Arm, I found it Quite Funny. And he was always a bit off balance, so we used to spend Quite A Lot of our school days pushing him over, which is Bad. But now, right, kids today if they saw a stump arm, they would just think, Oh, a Stump Arm, that’s quite normal. This is a normal person, except prob they hold paintings crooked, but that’s ok too. Which is Progress.

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Can I put a vote in for Channel 5 being more shit than ITV? Have to say never felt that they promote more women’s football but then not often in the sports section.

It may just be something that I am more sensitive to, or I may be totally off the mark here, it’s just something I have recognised.

I don’t think I’ve ever watched much Channel 5. I think the only time it is on in our house is during Big Brother, and that is my cue to depart to one of my dens.

High Art of the Low Countries. Just great TV. Gotta love BBC4.

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BBC Radio 4 Today, its flagship “news” programme, has lost over 800k listeners in the past year.

I’m one of them.

https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/08/01/news/radio-4-s-today-programme-sheds-more-than-800-000-listeners-in-a-year-1397365/

I wake up to it every morning as it’s on my radio Alarm clock. I switch it off immediately and have been doing so for years.

So back to where it was in 2016 then.

Dear Pap.

Why?
I’ve seen editorial comments but nobody says why people have tuned out.

I can’t speak for all, but personally, I found it maddening. They have been shit for so long that unproven 2013 speculation is treated as 2018 fact.

They’re lying fuckers. A plague on all their houses.

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I see that Radio 5/ Nicky Campbell has also lost a few hundred thousand. It seems news programmes have lost out to music. There’s a bit in that report saying that the news is slow and that’s a contributory factor… not sure about that at all.

Maybe the news is just too depressing? I don’t listen to radio 4 in the morning as much as I used to because they started to have a feature where listeners set maths challenges and I fucking hated it.

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You’re just putting 2 and 2 together and reaching the wrong conclusion.

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It did always “amaze” me how the msm only ever focus on bad news.
When you add that to fake news no wonder people give up.
Last Thursday, the lead story on Newsbeat was some “geezer” telling everyone how 27.2C was “killing” him.
No, they could not be bothered to resear h or visit true “at risk” people, they just found some geezer on the street innit.
So even my eyebrows were raised.
Next day the news was how to take advantage of the heat. Buy a winter overcoat. Buy a Christmas Tree. Meanwhile hundreds were dead or missing in Lombok and real stuff was happening - like Germany running out of beer