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No Such Thing as the News

Obviously as a result of the successful podcast
No Such Thing as a Fish

Haven't watched it yet but just opening it up it looks like the Beeb's cost cutting is already in place.
Production seems like one man and his iPhone level.

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I used to be with it, but then they changed what `it` was.
Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

Just wish with all this cost cutting they could just put in some adverts and remove the TV licence for good.

We had this debate at work recently. Love it or hate it, the way the BBC is funded means it's independant and impartial. Once you open up their funding to companies with an agenda, you lose that impartiality. look at Sky news.

A comparison I used, which happily put the debate to rest. was the coverage of the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics on the BBC vs the Paralympics on Channel 4;

BBC: Pure, unedited coverage, glorious in HD, a shining example of what we can do.

Channel 4: Commercials during a lull in proceedings, where the viewing audience missed out. I hoped against hope that they wouldn't be so crass as to show adverts during the athlete's procession. You know the bit, the section where the athletes come out into the stadium, proudly behind their flag, waving to the audience as they beam with pride at being chosen to represen-

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY SOME COCA-COLA?

I was that disgusted I wrote to Ofcom.



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I will give in to the fact that the BBC comes up with great DRAMA and Doctor Who of course (though the Docs not on this year for some reason).

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A comparison I used, which happily put the debate to rest. was the coverage of the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics on the BBC vs the Paralympics on Channel 4;
A more recent example is the F1 coverage. There is no comparison between the BBC and C4, despite having the same commentary team.


Thanks Snaps, I heard them mention this on the podcast but wasn't sure when it was out.

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Season 2 started last night!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07zcmsx/no-such-thing-as-the-news-series-2-episode-1


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I love QI, but I didn't really liek this very much, however I did like the advert for new QI starting Friday, XL on Sunday :)

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