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Martin Phillp · Thu 03 Jul, 2014 01.56

robschneider wrote:
What's Carl Beeboid Waring doing on TV Forum?!

He's been doing the rounds over on Media UK as well.

robschneider · Thu 03 Jul, 2014 02.14

He's known to me. Spends his time defending the BBC to death in-between claiming benefits. It's almost a perfect storm, really.

Martin Phillp · Thu 03 Jul, 2014 18.12

robschneider wrote:He's known to me. Spends his time defending the BBC to death in-between claiming benefits. It's almost a perfect storm, really.

I know of him from DS, he has an answer for everything.

DTV · Thu 03 Jul, 2014 18.18

Martin Phillp wrote:
robschneider wrote:He's known to me. Spends his time defending the BBC to death in-between claiming benefits. It's almost a perfect storm, really.
I know of him from DS, he has an answer for everything.

What? Are you on about TopCat - he was arguing against the BBC.

Alexia · Sun 06 Jul, 2014 02.54

The opposite to "kudos" should be "punch."

As in, Michael wants to punch Declan.

Pete · Mon 07 Jul, 2014 10.19

This thread about BBC News being stale compared to sky. I wonder how long it'll be before someone suggests a revamp. Or more standing up. Or "why don't they send the presenters out into the newsroom".

yawn.

ASO · Tue 08 Jul, 2014 21.06

Quote of the day:

Mouseboy33 wrote:I guess those that think its stale are hesitant to comment as they will get flamed and trawled by the usual suspects.

In the BBC News is stale thread.

DTV · Wed 09 Jul, 2014 08.05

ASO wrote:Quote of the day:
Mouseboy33 wrote:I guess those that think its stale are hesitant to comment as they will get flamed and trawled by the usual suspects.
In the BBC News is stale thread.

But to be fair, if Mouseboy33 started telling us how to improve BBC News it would only be in comparison to US Local News Stations.

ASO · Wed 09 Jul, 2014 16.11

And then I would tell mouseboy that the American presentation he showed us was crap, cheesy, stupid, pointless, over the top and tacky. And then we'd all realise how lucky we are to have the stale BBC News.

harshy · Sat 12 Jul, 2014 14.06

maybe i am showing my age here, but I dont think BBC News is stale at all, its a perfectly adequate 24 hr news service, if people wants gimmicks, then BBC World News is the place to go where they can see presenters roaming around the BBC newsroom.

DTV · Sat 12 Jul, 2014 17.45

harshy wrote:maybe i am showing my age here, but I dont think BBC News is stale at all, its a perfectly adequate 24 hr news service, if people wants gimmicks, then BBC World News is the place to go where they can see presenters roaming around the BBC newsroom.

I quite agree, News should be more based on content than on presentation. I know TVF is a Presentation discussion forum but some members forget that BBC News/Sky News is simply a rolling news channel compared to ITV News/C4 News which are standalone bulletins or BBC World News which isn't really a rolling news channel, more of just a News Channel with different programmes and strands.

One thing with TV Forum is the 'every so-often' threads that come around every 6 months. Whether BBC News is worse than its competitors is one of them. Others include things like 'Has the license fee had its time', 'Would you axe BBC Three or Four or both' and basically any discussion thread started by the Anti-BBC Cabal.