MH
Aaah! Now i see your gripe. The beeb didn't look much further than their own back door for ' ordinary' victims of cancer.
Nick Harvey posted:
Somebody, earlier in this thread, indicated that the people featured later in the week would be "ordinary".
With that in mind, I took the trouble to watch the following day's offering.
The cancer patient the following day was............ wait for it.............. a make-up artist on EastEnders.
I'm sorry, but any very tiny bit of credibility the Beeb might have had left after the Esler family outing, went straight down the plughole when we were treated to fifty seconds in every minute of the next report being pictures of the Queen Victoria and Albert Square, rather than the girl who'd actually had cancer.
No, sorry, BBC, why not be truthful next time and call it "Giant BBC Plug Week", rather than "Cancer Week".
With that in mind, I took the trouble to watch the following day's offering.
The cancer patient the following day was............ wait for it.............. a make-up artist on EastEnders.
I'm sorry, but any very tiny bit of credibility the Beeb might have had left after the Esler family outing, went straight down the plughole when we were treated to fifty seconds in every minute of the next report being pictures of the Queen Victoria and Albert Square, rather than the girl who'd actually had cancer.
No, sorry, BBC, why not be truthful next time and call it "Giant BBC Plug Week", rather than "Cancer Week".
Aaah! Now i see your gripe. The beeb didn't look much further than their own back door for ' ordinary' victims of cancer.
NH
Indeed.
We're getting all the bloomin' plugs for the BBC at the expense of the real story about cancer.
We also, so far, seem to be getting far too many positive outcome stories at the expense of the truth.
I'm sure I could find a few others from Willy Budd Ward in Bath, prepared to talk about being told you're "probably cured" at the end of 2000, then getting the "I'm afraid it's back" story in 2004.
I'll reserve judgement till the end of the week, but they're nowhere near the real truth so far.
Nick Harvey
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miss hellfire posted:
Aaah! Now i see your gripe. The beeb didn't look much further than their own back door for 'ordinary' victims of cancer.
Indeed.
We're getting all the bloomin' plugs for the BBC at the expense of the real story about cancer.
We also, so far, seem to be getting far too many positive outcome stories at the expense of the truth.
I'm sure I could find a few others from Willy Budd Ward in Bath, prepared to talk about being told you're "probably cured" at the end of 2000, then getting the "I'm afraid it's back" story in 2004.
I'll reserve judgement till the end of the week, but they're nowhere near the real truth so far.