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[STEMO]

Sophie Rayworth ( ) started a report tonight by saying (something like) "The killing of George Floyd by a white policeman in the USA has brought into focus the awful treatment of black people over the last 50 years". Please don't shoot me if those words are not correct, but you get the idea.
Now, being a news programme, that sentence should have been followed by "Mr X said today". But it wasn't. So it wasn't a report, it was a statement. Since when did public broadcasters get to make statements on their news programmes?
Just a little thing, maybe, but ten years ago there'd have been hell to pay for something like that, and the board would have had to remind the news editors to keep their opinions to themselves.

[TheBoy]

Its modern media news. Laziness and a belief that their audience is ultra pro positive discrimination.

Media today is about soundbites for broadcast media, and clickbait headlines for online news.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Write in Uncle STEMO! 

[STEMO]

Write in Uncle STEMO! 

If only I had the energy or the inclination, Tigger, but I gave up long ago.

Roll on death 

[TheBoy]

Write in Uncle STEMO! 

I went through a phase of writing weekly to BBC South, asking why they were too scared to go inland more than 4 miles, and how irrelevant Southampton was to me, 110 miles away.


Never even an acknowledgement.

[TheBoy]

In fairness to the Beeb, they did give me one of the bluntest piss-off pills ever, following a job application back in the 80s

[Doctor Gollum]

Self important Onanists the lot of them

[Sir Tigger KC]

What gets my goat is that they never report anything that's happening on the all important continent. 

If all you watched or read was the BBC, you'd never know that for the last few days heavily armed Algerian and Chechen gangs have been having a turf war on the streets of Dijon.  From the video clips I've seen it's complete mayhem! 

Not a word from the BBC though.... 

[STEMO]

On the BBC paper review last night, it was mentioned by one of the reviewers....a FRENCH journalist.
I saw a bit about it on Euronews, local drug dealers (probably the Algerians), beat up a Chechen lad and it all kicked off. He probably owed them money.

[Doctor Gollum]

That's because all the journos with a passport are flying to Glasgow to complain about the lack of social distancing on flights... There would have been 15 people on the plane including crew if the press hadn't tagged along.

That's it... Not paying any more attention, it's only going to annoy me really grip my piss

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Sophie Rayworth ( ) started a report tonight by saying (something like) "The killing of George Floyd by a white policeman in the USA has brought into focus the awful treatment of black people over the last 50 years". Please don't shoot me if those words are not correct, but you get the idea.
Now, being a news programme, that sentence should have been followed by "Mr X said today". But it wasn't. So it wasn't a report, it was a statement. Since when did public broadcasters get to make statements on their news programmes?
Just a little thing, maybe, but ten years ago there'd have been hell to pay for something like that, and the board would have had to remind the news editors to keep their opinions to themselves.

Sophie is clearly part of the white liberal elite. She knows that black lives matter.

I find it odd that in all the black on black killings both here and in the USA black lives don't seem to matter so much. No protests or demonstrations.  Very strange.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The BBC is very fond of 'black saviours' at the moment. Contrast the news about the white man pissing near a memorial and the white cop shooting a black man when compared to the black guy saving the white guy, and the black Manchester United player saving all the poor people.

Done by design.

[STEMO]

The BBC is very fond of 'black saviours' at the moment. Contrast the news about the white man pissing near a memorial and the white cop shooting a black man when compared to the black guy saving the white guy, and the Manchester United player saving all the poor people.

Done by design.

It will pass, it always does. I'm watching the Man City match soon. Kick off is 8:15 and that's when I'm turning over. I have no intention of watching the pathetic, whining build up, when they'll all 'take the knee' and harp on about racial equality. This will be before several multi-millionaire black men start kicking a football about.

[Sir Tigger KC]

On the BBC paper review last night, it was mentioned by one of the reviewers....a FRENCH journalist.
I saw a bit about it on Euronews, local drug dealers (probably the Algerians), beat up a Chechen lad and it all kicked off. He probably owed them money.

Mentioned... 

I'd have thought that a gang of armed men firing shots into the air on the streets of Western Europe would be screaming headlines! 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I really do bleive that freedom of speech and thought is now under serious threat in the UK. BBC, SKY C4 ,ITN are all the same, pushing the same agenda, with little or no airtime for people giving a serious opposite view to the mainstream Liberal left.
It matters not who occupies No. 10. Almost all of the levers of power and influence in the country are firmly in the grip the left.
Which is why, when you listen to any current Govt. minister speaking, they sound like someone from Blairs Govt. instead of a Tory Govt. with a very solid majority.
I despair to the point that I now actively avoid watching news and current affairs programmes. It seems to have got a hell of a lot worse in the last two or three years.