Topic: The BBC

[Titi Camara]

I see the BBC invited Nigel Frottage onto Newsnight to talk about Coronavirus last night...

That's genuinely round the bend. A self appointed dickhead gets to speak on a subject he has no expert knowledge of, on a national broadcaster and on one of their flagship news programs. Just stick the whole fucking rotten thing in the bin!

[eddymunster]

That's genuinely round the bend. A self appointed dickhead gets to speak on a subject he has no expert knowledge of, on a national broadcaster and on one of their flagship news programs. Just stick the whole fucking rotten thing in the bin!

Someone at the BBC fucking should be after that decision.

[lobsterboy]

I see the BBC invited Nigel Frottage onto Newsnight to talk about Coronavirus last night...

I'm guessing he blamed it on the European Union.

[Red-Soldier]

I see the BBC invited Nigel Frottage onto Newsnight to talk about Coronavirus last night...

Where do you start with that??

[CHOPPER]

Where do you start with that??

The Coronavirus requested 14 days of self isolation after meeting him.

[Red-Soldier]

The Coronavirus requested 14 days of self isolation after meeting him.

 

[Mutton Geoff]

at first i was thinking yes but then i was reminded about the amount of sponsorship they provide for the arts and culture in the UK so i am now  thinking keep it, it is good value away from the news and politics bias

[Yorkykopite]

Anyone know what advice about Coronavirus has appeared on Netflix? 

[Elmo!]

Anyone know what advice about Coronavirus has appeared on Netflix?

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-03-12/pandemic-netflix-how-to-prevent-an-outbreak/

[Yorkykopite]

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/on-demand/2020-03-12/pandemic-netflix-how-to-prevent-an-outbreak/

Is coronavirus even mentioned or is it all at the level of generality the blurb suggests it is?

It would take several pages of RAWK to show the amount of expertise and interrogation that the BBC has made available in the last few days. Along with its sister-organisation the NHS, the BBC is in the front line on educating the public right now. Both institutions of course are jewels of social democracy. Kill them at your peril.

 

[Elmo!]

Is coronavirus even mentioned or is it all at the level of generality the blurb suggests it is?

It would take several pages of RAWK to show the amount of expertise and interrogation that the BBC has made available in the last few days. Along with its sister-organisation the NHS, the BBC is in the front line on educating the public right now. Both institutions of course are jewels of social democracy. Kill them at your peril.

I made a not entirely serious answer to what was obviously a bad question. I don't think anyone ever has suggested that Netflix would be a replacement for the BBC's news coverage. There are other services that could do that.

[idontknow]

Got a new one this morning, 10 years and they have picked today to send out loads if you look up the numbers.

Can't get a picture to upload.

Small, A6 size, looks hand written, BY Hand, Read Information Inside, Please Contact us ASAP.

I honestly thought it was the NHS - i honestly wondered who I might have been in contact with.

But check the number, 0300 790 6015, check the return address Darlington DL98 1AT. It's the fucking BBC.
Timing these sweetly, the fucking immoral lowlifes.

After this, I will do everything I can to see the BBC rightfully rot.

[Mutton Geoff]

Got a new one this morning, 10 years and they have picked today to send out loads if you look up the numbers.

Can't get a picture to upload.

Small, A6 size, looks hand written, BY Hand, Read Information Inside, Please Contact us ASAP.

I honestly thought it was the NHS - i honestly wondered who I might have been in contact with.

But check the number, 0300 790 6015, check the return address Darlington DL98 1AT. It's the fucking BBC.
Timing these sweetly, the fucking immoral lowlifes.

After this, I will do everything I can to see the BBC rightfully rot.

But do you have a licence?

[Yorkykopite]

Got a new one this morning, 10 years and they have picked today to send out loads if you look up the numbers.

Can't get a picture to upload.

Small, A6 size, looks hand written, BY Hand, Read Information Inside, Please Contact us ASAP.

I honestly thought it was the NHS - i honestly wondered who I might have been in contact with.

But check the number, 0300 790 6015, check the return address Darlington DL98 1AT. It's the fucking BBC.
Timing these sweetly, the fucking immoral lowlifes.

After this, I will do everything I can to see the BBC rightfully rot.

You are precious.

But this is what the BBC is up against (and the NHS and any other publicly funded body). Me, me, me.

Thatcherism's true victory - the hollowing out of public space.

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

This one will definitely not make the mainstream news

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist. P-Orridge rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band, Throbbing Gristle.

https://twitter.com/theQuietus/status/1238934451931041797?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

Click the link and put in your postcode to see how many cases in your area.

Wonder if Netflix or Amazon are helping out with this kind of stuff?

[Mutton Geoff]

Wonder if Netflix or Amazon are helping out with this kind of stuff?

Netflix have Pandemic in their list of films to watch

[FaitAccompli]

This one will definitely not make the mainstream news

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist. P-Orridge rose to notability as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band, Throbbing Gristle.

https://twitter.com/theQuietus/status/1238934451931041797?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Really good bit in the Guardian by Alexis Petridis today, have you read it?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/15/genesis-p-orridge-troubling-catalyst-who-loathed-rock-yet-changed-it-for-ever

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Got a new one this morning, 10 years and they have picked today to send out loads if you look up the numbers.

Can't get a picture to upload.

Small, A6 size, looks hand written, BY Hand, Read Information Inside, Please Contact us ASAP.

I honestly thought it was the NHS - i honestly wondered who I might have been in contact with.

But check the number, 0300 790 6015, check the return address Darlington DL98 1AT. It's the fucking BBC.
Timing these sweetly, the fucking immoral lowlifes.

After this, I will do everything I can to see the BBC rightfully rot.

Loads of what ?

[Yorkykopite]

Netflix have Pandemic in their list of films to watch

In other words, no.

[TheShanklyGates]

The BBC has got an awful lot wrong in the last few years but it's still a national treasure and we'll miss it greatly when it's gone. Hopefully current events will make a few more people appreciate it but I doubt it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/bbc-keeping-nation-informed-educated-entertained

[Yorkykopite]

The BBC has got an awful lot wrong in the last few years but it's still a national treasure and we'll miss it greatly when it's gone. Hopefully current events will make a few more people appreciate it but I doubt it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/bbc-keeping-nation-informed-educated-entertained

I think a number of things might change (or revert) after this is all over. Respect for central government, for science and for the NHS (already very high) will likely increase. Populists of every stripe will suffer, as will blowhards and conspiracy nuts on social media. Already, we know that France had its highest ever TV audience to hear Macron explain the measures his government was taking against coronavirus. French citizens wanted reliable information and most trust their government to give it, and to do its best.

The same vibe will enhance the feeling that we need the BBC, over here. We're in a crisis and profit-making organisations (often requiring advertising revenue) aren't the best equipped to deal with the consequences.

[PaulF]

Loads of what ?

I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering.

[S]

Adam Schlesinger from the band Fountains of Wayne has died at 52 from the coronavirus.

Stacy's Mom was a classic for me growing up, really puts me back to a certain time and place.

[Shepnois]

Very sad, he was a brilliant pop song writer. He did a lot of song writing for TV & Film he wrote the That thing you do song from the film, another pop gem. Terrible news.

[Sheer Magnetism]

Was just about to post in here, terrible news. Schlesinger was best known for Fountains of Wayne, who of couse got big with Stacy's Mom, though I was always much more partial to their first album, the one with Radiation Vibe (#32 with a bullet):

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/rmqswLKKYyU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/rmqswLKKYyU</a>


He also produced a bunch of stuff, including one of my favourite pop albums of the last five years - the first Fever High album - and wrote and co-wrote some terrific pop songs in other media, notably for the Josie and the Pussycats movie, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the second best award show opening ever:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/3BHyfYiBt5o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/3BHyfYiBt5o</a>

[Trada]

Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday.

He was 85.

[markedasred]

Ellis Marsalis Jr., jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical clan that includes famed performer sons Wynton and Branford, has died after battling pneumonia brought by the new coronavirus, one of his sons said late Wednesday.

He was 85.

Just in the jazz world, we lost Wallace Roney, Manu Dibango, Mike Longo, Bucky Pizzarelli and the family have chosen not to disclose the status of McCoy Tyner in relation to the bastard virus, but he died in March, so another possible.

[Hedley Lamarr]

Bill Withers has passed away aged 81.  One of my Mother's favourite artists, his songs were always playing in our house growing up.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Bill Withers has passed away aged 81.  One of my Mother's favourite artists, his songs were always playing in our house growing up.

  Love Bill Withers

[reddebs]

Bill Withers has passed away aged 81.  One of my Mother's favourite artists, his songs were always playing in our house growing up.

Just send this [emoji26]

One from my teenage years but also my clubbing days with some fantastic dance remixes of his classics.

Lovely Day springs to mind.

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[Ray K]

Bill Withers Live at the BBC 1973.   He was just a perfect vocalist.  You won't spend a better 30 minutes today.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/DP_40ZdEKlM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/DP_40ZdEKlM</a>

[Daniel Cabbaggio]

He was so good man. Wish he had created more music but can understand why he quit

RIP Bill

[howes hound]

Not a huge output, but of very high quality. Live at Carnegie Hall is a great album, for the spiel as much as the music. One of those artists whose music is a kind of soundtrack to your life, if you're of a certain age. Mind you, I just mentioned his death to my son and found he's been a huge fan since early school days. Timeless songs, and a fine person.
Also, inspiration for one of the classic corny jokes of all time.

[OOS]

BBC World Service is excellent. Some of the reporting of UK and Global issues have been fantastic.

[rebel23]

BBC World Service is excellent. Some of the reporting of UK and Global issues have been fantastic.

Channel4News (https://www.channel4.com/news/) are also very good , award winning investigative journalism . No license fee money for them.

So what ?

[lobsterboy]

Yes, even more s

[Red_Mist]

The only people (not on about Rawk here) I see the BBC getting stick from seem to be Tories getting precious about BBC journalists asking difficult questions at the daily briefing. I think they see it as some kind of affront to their own decision making ability (voting Tory). Anyone else in power and they’d be cheering them on. I guess it’s the same for all of us to some hopefully lesser extent, but I do fear for the BBC whilst this lot are in power. The last thing they want is impartial, well trained, fact-based, investigative journalists looking at every aspect of the way they govern.

[sinnermichael]

RIP Little Richard.

[TepidT2O]

Without him....

No rock and roll as we know it. No Bowie, Prince, the Beatles, Queen.....

He broke racial barriers, stylistic barriers, he created an era