magazine we learn that:
Number crunching:
200 – Number of staff the BBC is sending to Germany to cover the world cup;
20 – Number of senior BBC executives who also find it necessary to go.
Nice work if you can get it!
From the latest dead-tree edition of the ever entertaining Private Eye
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i heard about this interweb thingie that allows you to report on stuff remotely. saves you having to travel, apparently.
Poor dears.
Have you ever eaten out at a restaurant in Germany? The food is soooooo bland. Can’t get a good, hot curry for love or money.
German kebabs are fine though. Splendid things.
Must be the unique way the BBC is funded.
Well, you do need extensive supervision to maintain the Party Line.
A 10-1 ratio of watchers and the watched people is quite conservative by the standards of East Germany.
Zwei pommes ohne ketchup bitte!
Well SOMEONE has to go out to get Gary’s chips at night!
Useless Socialist Bastards.
Watch your language!
Some of my best friends are bastards 😉
200 staff plus 20 executives (supervising?) in Germany for the World Cup. Sounds good to me.
Just for comparison I wonder how many BBC staff are sent to unimportant places like Africa and South America. Does anyone know?
Don’t worry – none of the BBC types will be seen near an England flag
Zwei pommes ohne ketchup bitte!
You are joking ! You just asked for just two chips……………
Try “Zweimal Pommes ohne Ketchup, bitte”
Have you ever eaten out at a restaurant in Germany? The food is soooooo bland. Can’t get a good, hot curry for love or money.
You really must get out more – I have had excellent meals in Germany, superb even………….but then again you have to keep away from the plastic mile
If you want to know why so many BBC excecutives want to go Germany. Its because most will be staying near Hamburg.
I have been to Hamberg so I know why they want to go on an all expenses paid trip there. The ladies take credit cards.
I won’t ask how you found that one out. 😛
I like the Eye, but it’s started taking many of the BBC’s own talking points of late, especially on the war. It’s soft left in its outlook half the time. I suppose that comes from a diversity of columnists… it grates, though. It’s almost schizophrenic, and for all the Eye’s digging and revealing of stories, it still falls in to the lazy journalism trap on certain issues. The military, for instance…
I might be forced to cancel my subscription in disgust. ;D
Socialism is necrotizing
“Useless socialist bastards”
I like that, it sums up just about everything there is to say about politics in just 3 words. The name is good as well.
soft left in its outlook half the time. I suppose that comes from a diversity of columnists…
I always assumed that in recent years it all came from the RESPECT takeover of the “In the Back” team, trying desperately to mimic their late beloved spartacist-in-chief Paul Foot, whose articles were often unashamedly blatent political attacking pieces you’d normally find in regular SWP literature.
The Eye eventually disgraced itself as it frequently ignored the antics of “gorgeous” George Galloway during the last elections, he was always a long-time object of attention from the Eye, but instead it set its sights more on his erstwhile opponent Oona King.
Paul Foot should have never rubbished himself on the Eye after emerging from Maxwell’s bottom, I think the rot set in back then.
Yes Ian spot on about the Respect take over at the Eye. The personal attacks on Oona King were obviously there to help Galloway which along with the anti-MMR and anti-mast garbage which they were trying to pass as news persuaded me not to renew my subscription. Its all very sad as the Eye used to run the stories the mainstream press wouldn’t but now we have blogs for that but the Eye has never adapted.
BBC journalist Gavin Essler, BBC2s host of Newsnight on Friday night (9 June) towards the end of the show, arbitrarily decided that a look at the next morning headlines in the newspapers wasn’t worth it, and they were simply passed over. He used the phrase “they were out of date”, or astonishing words to that effect!
This morning I noticed in W. H. Smiths that all the newspapers were full of support for England’s football team in the World Cup on their front pages and the COSG was everywhere to be seen. I find it astonishing that a BBC journalist or editor, can think that because that was the case they should ignore showing us, the public, what the newspapers actually contain! Especially reading about how many BBC staff are attending this. What does this tell us about the anti-English sentiment entrenched in the BBC and the cheap form of censorship that they practice? I have often thought that the BBC2 Newsnight editors choose to show which newspapers they think reflect their own editorial standards and newsworthy items (mostly Guardian & Independent), rather than what is actually on sale and is being read by the masses. This disgusting form of censorship and bias, bordering on ethnic snobbery, only confirms my opinion. How dare they decide what we should see in the newspaper headlines and what we should not! How dare they decide that the topic of the world cup and support for England is not newsworthy when they are sending hundreds of their own people (at our expense) to cover the event! What utter hypocrisy!
John,
Too true. In the main, BBC staff are not journalists, they are propagandists. They only play at even-handedness.
john | 10.06.06 – 1:15 pm
Newsnight always shows tha grauniad front page (and usually misses out the Daily Telegraph). A possible explanation for missing out the papers last night is this post by Ritter on another thread.
OT – but interesting in the context of reporting on police dealing with threat from Islamists. This is one Guardian story I don’t see the BBC leading with. Funny that.
Secret report brands Muslim police corrupt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,,1794445,00.html
“The document, which has been seen by the Guardian, has caused outrage among ethnic minorities within the force, who have labelled it racist and proof that there is a gulf in understanding between the police force and the wider Muslim community. The document was written as an attempt to investigate why complaints of misconduct and corruption against Asian officers are 10 times higher than against their white colleagues.
Superintendent Dal Babu, chairman of the Association of Muslim Officers, said the report had racist undertones.”
Ritter | 10.06.06 – 9:07 am
Rick:
Zwei pommes ohne ketchup bitte!
You are joking ! You just asked for just two chips……………
Well we used to ask for “Zwei Pommes” and get two bags when on exercise on Sennelager Training Area! Dear old Wolfgang and his little blue van which we had to pull out of the mud almost daily…!
Mind you the Aussies on attachment to our Highland Regiment had a bit of bother when they asked for “Two Pommies mate” and got blank looks from all the Scottish lads standing around them…..
Well done Engerland by the way – good first half, scrappy second and boy it looked hot!
I can assure you we have plenty of England flags all over our BBC office!