BBC contributed to Diana's death

Same here in Italy. More adverts than content. Free to Air channel 8 is basically Sky's offering and where the F1 races are shown (delayed and in standard def) Bizarrely, except for 1 or 2 races -including the Italian GP - there is no commentary so you see the pundits talking in the Pit lane before and after but only hear the background sound (which is great actually) as well as during the race. The big problem is every 4 or 5 minutes you get bombarded with the same incessant adverts mainly for cars ...Alfa Romeo Stelvia and Giulia and , surprise, surprise adverts for SKY. These are in the form of shrinking the live coverage to a small window you can hardly see ( even on a 50" TV ) and then increasing the volume of the advert in the main picture . Alternatively you get a string of full screen adverts and they then return to the race where they left off. The worse thing is that you STILL have to pay a TV licence fee (added to your electricity bill automatically) AND suffer hours of adverts. That said we rarely watch Italian TV - mainly F1 and news national and local) preferring Netflix and Prime content.

 

Expect the Tories to use this 26-year-old incident to pile on to the BBC because it's not Tory or brexity enough.

 

They've already been slowly taking steps to turn it into Pravda over the last 10 years, I doubt any opportunity to accelerate the process will pass them by.

 

Can people against the licence come up with a better solution than just moaning? Advertising is not it! Have you ever watched American telly ? Their Whose line is it anyway, as an example, was ruined by adverts (one set literally before the final credits). Their (shitty attempt at) Taskmaster was reduced considerably to get adverts in, and watching Leverage at times was like watching an advert for Ford when a character got in a car.

 

Not strictly true. When it was TV licencing as opposed to Capitas version they did use "detector vans". No real technology involved. It was a decal van parked in areas where there was a cluster of non paying properties with two blokes sat in the back with a flask and a copy of the sun. They were used to put the **** up people so they went and brought them.

Capita dont even do that, as you say they send out a massive wad of paper then will send a field agent round ( well not while theres Covids) who can once you say you have a TV can question you using PACE guidelines.

As long as you do not let them into your property or engage with them at the doorstep then you are fine.

 

Capita - one of many things that is wrong with the world.

 

I'm sorry you seem to have missed an "R" out of Crapita!

 

No wonder they were trying to get photos if dodi was poking her in the back seat at the time of the crash. Explains no seatbelts.

 

The Queen did it

 

Flabbergasted that a certain Boris Johnson is weighing into this story.

A man who was literally sacked from a journalism job for making up stuff, and the public will nod sagely as he lectures the BBC about journalistic integrity.

The world has gone fuc king mad.

 

.....and lest we forget, during his tenure at the Telegraph, conspired with an old 'chum' to have a reporter beaten up. Yes, those journalistic standards are really slipping, eh Johnson??

What a cuπt.

 

Maybe. But remember he's got 'funny hair.' You can get away with anything if you've funny hair. Or a funny moustache.

 

Recall a sketch from not the nine o'clock news show where the TV stood for transvestite and the vans were rounding up embarrassed men in women's underwear

 

Diana's brother's logic from my reading of it is that the spurious info from the bbc led her to believe her royal bodyguards were spying on her. She dismissed them and wouldn't have any. If she had a bodyguard he might have stopped her getting in a limo with a p!ssed up chauffer. It is not direct, but he thinks it shows causality. A degree of causation is open to debate but perhaps this shouldn't overshadow a journalist trying to make news rather than reporting on it and an organisation more bent on dictating opinion that reporting the news and letting us make our minds up. Probably plays into the governments hands to bash the bbc but they only have themselves to blame tbh

 

They are in my house, they destroy people at the drop of a hat, the most immoral occupation there is...

 

When they conduct themselves properly journalists are one of the most vital elements of any free country/democracy. Take a look at the state of Russia.

 

How many actually conduct themselves properly throughout their career?, any criticism the occupation gets is well and truly justified, you only have to look at the Diana situation, and Caroline flack and Milly dowler, disgraceful, your obviously going to say that not all journos are the same but i,ve never really seen anything to make me think that this is the case, anyones fair game in their quest for a headline and to further their careers...

 

Don’t think that’s the issue tbh .
Imo the issue is they have friends , donors , relatives already and waiting on the sidelines to make a big buck out of its demise and or milk it’s services .

 

The lady of the lake held aloft the sword that is Excalibur. That is why we have a king. However, we really should be an autonomous collective.

 

There's a hell of a lot of bad apples and it's the reader's responsibility to figure out who they are. If you read certain publications there's a pretty reasonable chance you're going to get s***e journalism and you should have the wit to expect nothing better. Stand up The Sun etc.
I'd expect much higher standards of other sources and the BBC is one of them which is why the Bashir thing is both disappointing but also encouraging that he's been brought to book. Again, write off all journalists at your peril because we'll end up like Russia with no press to hold the government to account and total repression and state sponsored murder on a grand scale.