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Post by JohnV on Jan 27, 2021 11:19:46 GMT
I have just been listening to the BBC gloating about a statement admitting mistakes in the decisions made about Covid.
They really love blowing things out of proportion don't they.
20:20 hindsight is easy
I think every single decision made, had "experts" arguing both for and against ...... a lot have proved to be wrong and a lot have proved to be right. as was said in that statement ....."there is no guide book"
A lot of the things they were saying should have been done, are based on things that weren't known when the decisions were made.
Journalists just piss me off ....... they have to attack and try and find fault (and it really does seem that the BBC loves to attack conservatives)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 11:36:31 GMT
I was slightly irritated in last night's Downing Street briefing where successive questions ranged from '100,000 deaths and it's all your fault' to 'when can we reopen schools and businesses'.
Even the individual reporters questions appeared contradictory.
But it's all about 'making good tv' ... truth and openess aren't a goal.
Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 27, 2021 12:20:36 GMT
It's understandable that some people are feeling down just now. I've been feeling a bit down myself recently, non-covid reasons. I do have a tendency to get down about things, probably more than I should. I guess I'm lucky though, feeling down rarely lasts too long. I find that going on a long walk helps. In the course of this I often find a positive thought to displace the negative feelings.
Let's try to do this with the current situation:
Ok, lots of people are dying. Young people are losing their education and missing out on irreplaceable life experiences. Millions of peoples jobs are either lost, or are hanging by a thread. People can't hug or kiss any more, some can no longer alleviate their desperate loneliness by going for a pint down the pub. On top of all these things, the weather is shite. Not good at all.
However: Other than the fact that more non white people are dying from covid than whites and some woke lemmings desperately attempt to present this as proof of further institutional racism, we're hearing less from the woke crowd at the moment than would otherwise be the case. And so, we can live relatively free for now from woke fascists and their attempts, utilising psychological ransom, to convince the broader population that those who fuck their lives up through their lifestyle choices should attain 'equality' with everyone else.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
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Post by patty on Jan 27, 2021 12:40:00 GMT
The knives are out..the blame culture flourishes ... Jeepers its awful.. Its a Pandemic..none of us have ever experienced or had knowledge of this ever so how can anyone know the right way
To-day seems particularly virulent....Ive just culled my FB 'friends' over the awful accusations posts towards Boris etc.. We just need to get thru this and keep going..
As for school..let all the little darlings regardless of much they have done re do the whole year..that way the privileged who have paid tutors etc don't benefit and with the unemployment as it is it'll keep them all in the education system an extra year.... We cannot turn back the clock so we must just move on.
Cannot change the weather..but my dog loves all the flooded fields.. Ive just been to the off licence and I'll be just fine for a couple of months....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 13:07:37 GMT
I was slightly irritated in last night's Downing Street briefing where successive questions ranged from '100,000 deaths and it's all your fault' to 'when can we reopen schools and businesses'. Even the individual reporters questions appeared contradictory. But it's all about 'making good tv' ... truth and openess aren't a goal. Rog I didn't enjoy watching the news before covid, I certainly enjoy it less now days, try to sometimes but it just gets me angry. I don't get why someone cant start up a neutral news outlet, only reports and deals in the truth with facts and research to back it up.
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Post by quaysider on Jan 27, 2021 14:00:46 GMT
I've given in on the BBC news now - every "report" contains emotive language expressing THEIR (well someone's opinion)using expressions designed to perpetuate hysteria and dismay.
I like the 'statements' simply made by Aljazeera news and read more on there than the beeb now. It's a shame... my "day" used to be Radio 2 from wake up to bed time... now I turn that idiot Vine off between 12 and 2 and after Sarah Cox has finished, put the telly on to netflix to avoid any "so called" news programs. HOW Boris (or any of them) manage to resist telling the questioning so called reported to sod off and ask a sensible question is a miracle. I'd have told them to bugger off by now - in fact, I actually hope one of these days Boris tells them off... could you imagine Maggie taking the shit of them without fighting back?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 16:15:00 GMT
"One of the few good things to have emerged from this folderol, is the refulgent ‘unmasking’ of how lo-fi an overwhelmingly high proportion of the GB population truly are. Quite aside from the unquestioning compliance, if you were to have gone to a supermarket every day since the start, you’d have by now pretty much overheard the exact same conversation 365 times, with sufficiently interjecting ‘oohs’ ‘aahs’ and ‘oh well there’s nothing we can do about it’s. It had long struck me before, from passive ‘eavesdropping’ whilst out and about conducting daily life, exactly what asinine level of intellect, perception and evaluation the vast majority of people function at. All discourse pitched around precisely nothing higher than TV programmes, popular culture, and the MSM headlines of the day. Most conversation based around ‘so she said, and I said’. It really does leave me to wonder what exactly did wives find to talk about to each other over the back fences in the days before TV and phones. I’m a misanthrope because most people truly do possess the cerebral capacity of a walnut." Yes we don't have your high intellect, wisdom, and cut n paste abilities. The tripe you post here, I don't know how you dare write the above ! Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 16:16:54 GMT
Is it more copy and paste tripe from somewhere else though, hard to tell with him.
Be nice if this forum hides all the posts of blocked people when they are quoted, ah well.
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Post by JohnV on Jan 27, 2021 16:35:25 GMT
I've given in on the BBC news now - every "report" contains emotive language expressing THEIR (well someone's opinion)using expressions designed to perpetuate hysteria and dismay. I like the 'statements' simply made by Aljazeera news and read more on there than the beeb now. It's a shame... my "day" used to be Radio 2 from wake up to bed time... now I turn that idiot Vine off between 12 and 2 and after Sarah Cox has finished, put the telly on to netflix to avoid any "so called" news programs. HOW Boris (or any of them) manage to resist telling the questioning so called reported to sod off and ask a sensible question is a miracle. I'd have told them to bugger off by now - in fact, I actually hope one of these days Boris tells them off... could you imagine Maggie taking the shit of them without fighting back? I must admit I agree with you re Al Jazeera news ..... at least they seem to make a proper attempt at impartiality.
They also cover a hell of a lot of things that you would never hear about from the Beeb
It's such a shame, in their glory days you could rely on them to be pretty factual, if boring .... but now
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Post by Clinton Cool on Jan 27, 2021 17:54:09 GMT
RT is worth a watch as well. Ok their news may have a right wing slant and from time to time have a bias towards Russia but some of their documentaries are excellent. Unlike BBC documentaries they tend to major on the subject of the documentary rather than promoting the celebrity status and/ or the political view of the presenter.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 27, 2021 18:03:39 GMT
I've given in on the BBC news now - every "report" contains emotive language expressing THEIR (well someone's opinion)using expressions designed to perpetuate hysteria and dismay. I like the 'statements' simply made by Aljazeera news and read more on there than the beeb now. It's a shame... my "day" used to be Radio 2 from wake up to bed time... now I turn that idiot Vine off between 12 and 2 and after Sarah Cox has finished, put the telly on to netflix to avoid any "so called" news programs. HOW Boris (or any of them) manage to resist telling the questioning so called reported to sod off and ask a sensible question is a miracle. I'd have told them to bugger off by now - in fact, I actually hope one of these days Boris tells them off... could you imagine Maggie taking the shit of them without fighting back? I must admit I agree with you re Al Jazeera news ..... at least they seem to make a proper attempt at impartiality.
They also cover a hell of a lot of things that you would never hear about from the Beeb
It's such a shame, in their glory days you could rely on them to be pretty factual, if boring .... but now
The BBC has always been the Government's propaganda channel, it has never been more factual or impartial than Radio Moscow. Go back eighty years and they were hugely exaggerating the success of British attacks on Germany while omitting to even mention the results of Luftwaffe attacks on the UK. Perhaps one might take the view that a broadcaster has to do that for reasons of morale, but that is exactly what propaganda is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 18:10:31 GMT
Wouldn't want to read/see RT if that is the case...
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Post by peterboat on Jan 27, 2021 18:12:19 GMT
I've given in on the BBC news now - every "report" contains emotive language expressing THEIR (well someone's opinion)using expressions designed to perpetuate hysteria and dismay. I like the 'statements' simply made by Aljazeera news and read more on there than the beeb now. It's a shame... my "day" used to be Radio 2 from wake up to bed time... now I turn that idiot Vine off between 12 and 2 and after Sarah Cox has finished, put the telly on to netflix to avoid any "so called" news programs. HOW Boris (or any of them) manage to resist telling the questioning so called reported to sod off and ask a sensible question is a miracle. I'd have told them to bugger off by now - in fact, I actually hope one of these days Boris tells them off... could you imagine Maggie taking the shit of them without fighting back? Love Sara Cox she is bonkers! I am sure she says the first thing she thinks of? Her Biography is well worth a read very enjoyable and a good laugh, she is a top chick in my books
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 18:29:42 GMT
Aljazeera is owned and funded by the Qatari government.
Foxy in owned and funded by the Daily Mail
Both purport to provide a public service.........
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 27, 2021 18:38:14 GMT
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