MG
MikeG
BBC News, on the whole is unbiased. And what do you mean about Prescott etc? Were the BBC biased with these? I can't remember - remind me!
DA
Was that comment called for? No it wasn't.
Are you saying my comments have no foundation? Whether you are or are not, you are once again demonstrating how patronising you are.
Just because we have someone with a post count ten times as high as the next person, we don't have to agree with everything they say. I am really fed up with this attitude that you are always correct, and that anything anybody says which may disagree is completely and utterly wrong.
The fact is I prefer News 24 to Sky. That is a point of view. That is my opinion. I have done my absolute best to say why. And all I get is some patronising and arrogant remarks from someone telling me to go and buy vocabulary from the BBC Shop. Maybe a joke, but I think not. At least I have the ability to sense a light-hearted remark when I see one - I even included a smilie to show I was having a joke. Obviously too childish for Chesh.
What makes this forum a playgroup is the presence of stupid, ill-judged comments from certain members. And then we ultimately progress a sensible conversation into a slanging match - usually BBC vs. Sky News.
I have said all I want to say. And now, once I've bought a book of vocabulary from the BBC Shop, I will sit down in front of BBC News 24 while sipping tea from a china teacup.
Happy new year - I'm sure Sky News will be celebrating it with a spinning Euro coin next to the presenter. Not tacky at all...
DAS
Founding member
Quote:
cheshirec on 11:31 pm on Dec. 30, 2001
Well excuse me for having a vocabulary.
Perhaps you should get one, I'm sure they sell them at the BBC Shop.
Do you not think that I am little bit tired of hearing people make comments with no foundation whatsoever? That's what makes this place sound like a playgroup - people blurting out stupid comments that a) no-one gives a toss about and b) are a load of bull****
anyway.
How I wish some people in here were better informed and actually knew what they were talking about.
Well excuse me for having a vocabulary.
Perhaps you should get one, I'm sure they sell them at the BBC Shop.
Do you not think that I am little bit tired of hearing people make comments with no foundation whatsoever? That's what makes this place sound like a playgroup - people blurting out stupid comments that a) no-one gives a toss about and b) are a load of bull****
anyway.
How I wish some people in here were better informed and actually knew what they were talking about.
Was that comment called for? No it wasn't.
Are you saying my comments have no foundation? Whether you are or are not, you are once again demonstrating how patronising you are.
Just because we have someone with a post count ten times as high as the next person, we don't have to agree with everything they say. I am really fed up with this attitude that you are always correct, and that anything anybody says which may disagree is completely and utterly wrong.
The fact is I prefer News 24 to Sky. That is a point of view. That is my opinion. I have done my absolute best to say why. And all I get is some patronising and arrogant remarks from someone telling me to go and buy vocabulary from the BBC Shop. Maybe a joke, but I think not. At least I have the ability to sense a light-hearted remark when I see one - I even included a smilie to show I was having a joke. Obviously too childish for Chesh.
What makes this forum a playgroup is the presence of stupid, ill-judged comments from certain members. And then we ultimately progress a sensible conversation into a slanging match - usually BBC vs. Sky News.
I have said all I want to say. And now, once I've bought a book of vocabulary from the BBC Shop, I will sit down in front of BBC News 24 while sipping tea from a china teacup.
Happy new year - I'm sure Sky News will be celebrating it with a spinning Euro coin next to the presenter. Not tacky at all...
MA
Marcus
Founding member
[quote] Ste on 4:22 pm on Dec. 31, 2001
BBC unbias??? I can think of numerous examples to prove this statement isnt true- prescot punch reporting, sept 11th question time to name just a two!
Ste
The point is the Question Time was unbiased, That's what people didn't like. They wanted a programme biased in favour of the americans.
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BBC unbias??? I can think of numerous examples to prove this statement isnt true- prescot punch reporting, sept 11th question time to name just a two!
Ste
The point is the Question Time was unbiased, That's what people didn't like. They wanted a programme biased in favour of the americans.
MM
Mr Me
In terms of presenters, the fact is that both News 24 and Sky have some good, some bad - always has been, always will be.
News 24 best = Joanna Gosling, Val Sanderson, Jane Hill, Gavin Esler, Maxinne Mawhinney, John Nicolson (and I've said it so many times on this forum, they really should give Jon Sopel a slot, he was great earlier this week on Breakfast).
News 24 worst = Philip Hayton, (he just doesnt look like he knows what he's doing half the time), Matthew Amroliwala (too smug), Peter Dobbie, Deborah Mackenzie, Susan Osman, Chris Lowe & Peter Coe (too bland), Heather McCarthy & Martine Croxall (WAY out of their depth), Mike Embley (remember NRSE?).
Sky best = Natasha Kaplinsky, Anna Botting, Kay Burley, Jeremy Thompson, Juliet Foster, Mark Longhurst, Viv Creegor, Frank Partridge, Paula Middlehurst.
Sky worst = Alan King (VERY bland), Martin Stanford (bland), Fiona McDiarmid, Simon McCoy (smug), Joann Malin, Chris Rogers, Steve Dixon.
See. Told you so.
News 24 best = Joanna Gosling, Val Sanderson, Jane Hill, Gavin Esler, Maxinne Mawhinney, John Nicolson (and I've said it so many times on this forum, they really should give Jon Sopel a slot, he was great earlier this week on Breakfast).
News 24 worst = Philip Hayton, (he just doesnt look like he knows what he's doing half the time), Matthew Amroliwala (too smug), Peter Dobbie, Deborah Mackenzie, Susan Osman, Chris Lowe & Peter Coe (too bland), Heather McCarthy & Martine Croxall (WAY out of their depth), Mike Embley (remember NRSE?).
Sky best = Natasha Kaplinsky, Anna Botting, Kay Burley, Jeremy Thompson, Juliet Foster, Mark Longhurst, Viv Creegor, Frank Partridge, Paula Middlehurst.
Sky worst = Alan King (VERY bland), Martin Stanford (bland), Fiona McDiarmid, Simon McCoy (smug), Joann Malin, Chris Rogers, Steve Dixon.
See. Told you so.
IA
Kept brief, I don't agree with some of your choices.
Not keen on Gosling, but agree with the rest and particularly the Jon Sopel comment.
N24 best - Phil Hayton, Jane Hill (only a matter of time before she does the Six on ONE), Esler
N24 worst - Gosling, Osman, Peter Coe (but I think he works well on World?)
Sky best - JT and Mark Longhurst (vastly underrated IMHO - 'easy' to watch)
Sky worst - no particular opinion
Not keen on Gosling, but agree with the rest and particularly the Jon Sopel comment.
N24 best - Phil Hayton, Jane Hill (only a matter of time before she does the Six on ONE), Esler
N24 worst - Gosling, Osman, Peter Coe (but I think he works well on World?)
Sky best - JT and Mark Longhurst (vastly underrated IMHO - 'easy' to watch)
Sky worst - no particular opinion
MM
Mr Me
It would be funny but Peter Sissons would never do it - he's way too important, and is now so close to retirement there is practically no point in moving him now. He's a bloody amazing guy - he went to school with Jimmy Tarbuck and the Beatles!
NE
newsjunkie
Founding member
How can you miss out cris eakin. He is great. Also Louise Minchen was brillient