Re: BBC bad career move

Malcolm Knight wrote:
"DAB sounds worse than FM" <dab.is@dead> wrote in message
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Malcolm Knight wrote:

The Labour party has been carrying out a personal vendetta against
me (single, no dependants, just about self-supporting and not quite
an OAP) for the past ten years

I'm sure Tony and Gordon weren't singling you out personally. ;-)

I am not an unmarried parent and I'm English. I'm not a criminal and I
am an occasional car driver living in a Tory controlled area. Of
course they were singling me out.. ;-)


Fair enough.


Also notice that the right-wing press failed even to report Ofcom's
comments about switching off FM correctly:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/articles/Ofcom-refuses-to-fix-radio-switchover-date.php

Somehow they managed to turn Ed Richards refusing to set a date for
FM to be switched off into articles along the lines of "all FM
receivers will be switched off tomorrow - go and buy DAB now"
idiotic nonsense. The Guardian was the only one to report it
correctly.

This is nothing new. Newspapers didn't understand the advantages of FM
when it put its head into public view in the 1960s. The Telegraph ran
a campaign about it where journalistic ignorance knew no bounds.


That doesn't surprise me. My issue with the way the papers reported the FM
switchoff issue though was that Ed Richards actually said that he wouldn't
set a date in his speech, and there was a transcript of the speech available
on the Ofcom website. So I just find it staggering that journalists could go
on to report almost the exact opposite of what he actually said. It's a sad
indictment on the state of British journalism more than anything else.


However it is quite clear that the current Telegraph team dislike
BBC management as much as I do and they are constantly knocking
them.

Nice one.

It's probably got something to do with the BBC and the Telegraph being
website rivals. There is BBC knocking practically every day, this
morning's editorial for example. Always well deserved though.


There's never any shortage of things to knock really... Radio 1 banning the
word "***" from a Xmas track that they've happily been playing for about
the last 15 years and then climbing down a few hours later due to a listen
backlash sums up the BBC these days.


And never call me a supporter of the Tory party again, right? :-)

Fair enough. Don't fancy hugging hoodies then? ;-)

To be fair, Cameron never said that. If you listened to Radio 4 as
often as I do you would have heard an interview with the journalist
who wrote that story admitting he made it up and Cameron in a rare
moment of sanity said that when some things are so firmly entrenched
in the public's mind there is no point in arguing.


The image it conjures up is too funny for me to stop using it now. ;-)


Would: "someone of a right-wing persuasion" be okay?

That'll do. :-)

Even the Telegraph has frequently refered to that shower as 'The
not-the-Tory-party'.

The Tories are a PR company these days aren't they?

And the other load of s**t bags are not?? :-)


Yes, but Cameron did actually work as a PR man, whereas Tony and Gordon are
merely amateur PR men.


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Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/incompetent_adoption_of_dab.htm


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