The Newsroom

Spoof Newsflash causes complaints

(June 2006)

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NB
NerdBoy
Charlie Wells posted:

2) As mentioned the newsroom backdrop was the night time backing, despite it still being daylight.


err... did the BBC not use the nine o'clock news backdrop for Diana in the morning? (I don't actually know for sure, it's a genuine question!)
M
M@ Founding member
While I tend to side with the broadcaster in cases such as these, ou have to note one quote from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5118690.stm :

"We had a daughter caught up in the London bombings and a granddaughter at the palace, and I was terrified when I saw this."

If this person was genuinally terrified, seems the complaitants have a point.
NB
NerdBoy
Quote:
We had a daughter caught up in the London bombings and a granddaughter at the palace, and I was terrified when I saw this


lol!! Laughing What's their problem?!
NE
Newsreader
NerdBoy posted:
Charlie Wells posted:

2) As mentioned the newsroom backdrop was the night time backing, despite it still being daylight.


err... did the BBC not use the nine o'clock news backdrop for Diana in the morning? (I don't actually know for sure, it's a genuine question!)


Yes and I assume they would now with the death of a senior member of the royal family/government etc.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
NerdBoy posted:
Quote:
We had a daughter caught up in the London bombings and a granddaughter at the palace, and I was terrified when I saw this


lol!! Laughing What's their problem?!


you really need this explaining?
ED
edward
seamus21514 posted:
Jonathan posted:
Hymagumba posted:
seamus21514 posted:
It was a joke! The complainers need to get a life. Or they could at least put a ticker saying that it was a joke.


being in america and being only 12 as you are, do you even know what this is about or are you just posting randomly to up your postcount.

Because if it's the latter that means you're the new spiringunhacked and not the new ryan pannell Sad


The ones on those BBC2 things were always done with the "tv lines" over them and the camera zoomed in and out and stuff. They also have graphics which look slightly wrong to help highlight it's fake.

My God, he's twelve and American?!
I think this is ridiculous, I bet it was people like Seamus who complained anyway - people who have way too much time, boring and were never taught humour.


I AM NOT AMERICAN. I AM IRISH. I LIVE IN AMERICA. DON"T YOU DARE CALL ME AMERICAN.


...AND YOU'RE 12 AND HAVING A TANTRUM, AMERICAN.
SE
seamus
I am not american, and will not be called one. That is an insult.
SE
Seb
seamus21514 posted:
I am not american, and will not be called one. That is an insult.


Will you be quiet you insufferable 12 year old American Exclamation
SE
seamus
I AM IRISH.
SO
Steven O
Where is a train when you need one? Rolling Eyes

C'mon, guys, let's stop the fighting and get back on topic.

Steven
MN
MarkN Founding member
Charlie Wells posted:
Still I think the complainers need to get a grip, there were notable clues that it was a spoof...

...if you're a presentation anorak who can spot the clues from a mile away.

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seamus21514 posted:
I AM IRISH.

seamus21514 posted:
...I have an american accent...

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck." Wink
JA
james2001 Founding member
I bet he's Irish in the sense his great great grandfather was an Irish immigrant or something. There's a lot of Americans who claim to be the nationality of their ancestors (in that way, I should class myself as Australian. But I don't).

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