The BBC Reaches A New Level Of Dumbed Down News

[Hammer]

Watching Newsnight just now.

Paxman is interviewing some bint off Strictly Come Dancing and a fucking Minister of State (Hazel Blears) about John Sargent quitting Strictly Come Dancing.

What the actual fuck? Is this what passes for investigative journalism these days? A ten minute advertisement for a BBC light entertainment show?

[hotblonde]

The day a BBC new reporter described E coli as a virus, I knew the dream was over.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by hotblonde

The day a BBC new reporter described E coli as a virus, I knew the dream was over.

They've described MRSA as a virus loads of times.
And CJD/BSE (although that's slightly more forgivable).

[¡Punk!]

I was reading through some old Charlie Brooker stuff and he was laughing at the idiots who text in during I'm A Celeb, etc. for their crap to go along the bottom of the screen and he said, jokingly, it wont be long before you can do that on the news.

I despair sometimes.

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by ¡Punk!

I was reading through some old Charlie Brooker stuff and he was laughing at the idiots who text in during I'm A Celeb, etc. for their crap to go along the bottom of the screen and he said, jokingly, it wont be long before you can do that on the news.

I despair sometimes.

I'm pretty sure Sky News already have that.

[hotblonde]

Originally Posted by LesMTS

And CJD/BSE (although that's slightly more forgivable).

Indeed it is not, good sir! Prions are NOT viruses.

[¡Punk!]

Originally Posted by Hammer

I'm pretty sure Sky News already have that.

that was the point. BBC and C5 have it too

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by hotblonde

Indeed it is not, good sir! Prions are NOT viruses.

No, they're not, but they're a pretty unusual kind of pathogen that not many people know about. So I'd still say it's slightly more forgivable in that they're not confusing two very well known pathogens, both of which are covered in high school biology.