The BBC News thread: where a harmless entertainment story on the website is enough to encourage a rant about how BBC News has lost all credibility

To be fair, hyperbole aside, you'd have to be the most ardent BBC bootlicker not to believe the BBC News website has gone substantially downhill. I ...

Also, certainly within the TVF/TVLF community, it's the case that anybody with anything useful to say simply got bored of The Gallery and it gaining a bit of a reputation for crapness - over time, poor quality PowerPoint (often GMB graphics) mocks proliferated, putting more serious minded people off ...

9. [NEW] Requests for material (such as video/audio clips of presentation elements, programmes, theme tunes) is not permitted.

This feels like one of those laws that is written too vaguely and ends up accidentally banning cats.

Thank fuck the News channel presenter issues are over, though sure some members will still find a way to bring it up every few days.

Martin Phillp wrote: Thu 07 Dec, 2023 14.31 Maryam's blooper has sent the usual suspects into overdrive.

Now onto the fourth page of analysis of what would have been literally just 0.001% of the channel's output yesterday. Also willing to bet that none of the people whinging about it saw it live.

Egg, like a bird's egg.

The GMB thread isn't one I frequent, but happened to click today and, my God, I didn't realise that was another for the 'never visit' list.

Is there any way to mute the names of the five 'News channel presenters' so that I don't have to constantly see the same speculation about a situation that nobody on the forum knows anything about?

I’ve long since made peace with the fact that the majority over there dislike any form of change

Not sure this is wholly fair, after all, any branding that is more than 18 months old is automatically 'tired' and needs to change. Though, of course, whether the changes are accepted when they ...

What is it about Sky News that makes people very insistent on making consistently specifically wrong 'spellings'? There is at least one member who always types it as SKY News, and another who I notice is now writing it as SkyNews.

Obviously, a very minor point, but, with two members doing it, I ...

Regardless of people's thoughts on individual members, I can't say I particularly understand the rationale or care for the execution of this posting subject to approval. Surely, if somebody has broken the rules or their posts are so repeatedly contentious that they need to be pre-moderated, they ...