Seriously, when you listen to the BBC do you really feel you are listening to the best news source that the media has to offer?I mean be honest. Are you listening because,it keeps your reputation of having good taste in check?
CNN offers news from around the world that ā¦
(A) You can actually listen and,not have to drink buckets of coffee to maintain conscieness.
(B) Every last broadcaster doesnāt just change by name he or,she actually sounds different.
[quote=āDarkchildā]Seriously, when you listen to the BBC do you really feel you are listening to the best news source that the media has to offer?I mean be honest. Are you listening because,it keeps your reputation of having good taste in check?
CNN offers news from around the world that ā¦
(A) You can actually listen and,not have to drink buckets of coffee to maintain conscieness.
(B) Every last broadcaster doesnāt just change by name he or,she actually sounds different.
Itās the 21rst century for Gods sake.Winston Churchill was incredible in his day but,itās no longer necessary to be that seriousā¦
Good grief,the āGrim reaperā is more entertaining.Are you kidding me?[/quote]
CNN offers news? I must have missed that bit. But then I only had it on for an hour or so, before I got sick to death of the constant self-congratulation, trailers of trailers, and endless commercials. Or maybe that WAS what passes for the news in the minds of the people who run their unedifying mission!
[quote=āDarkchildā]Seriously, when you listen to the BBC do you really feel you are listening to the best news source that the media has to offer?I mean be honest. Are you listening because,it keeps your reputation of having good taste in check?
CNN offers news from around the world that ā¦
(A) You can actually listen and,not have to drink buckets of coffee to maintain [color=red]conscieness[/color].[/quote]
Because it attracts the more intelligent listener who can spell?
While I donāt claim partiality in this argument, by any means, having listened to both over the years. I canāt stand the sheer volume of repeition now available on CNN.
For Godās sake, in a half hour bulletin, you get the same story told three or even four times. And everything has the same story.
E.g. World News: Iraq
Asian News: Iraq
Business News: Iraq.
While I am uptodate on general current affairs, my memory skills are still at 37 fairly intact. I donāt need reminding every five minutes.
Iāve pretty much given up on CNN. Their Asian News programs are just offcuts of the US news anyway, with a couple of local stories thrown in for good measure.
I donāt even want to mention weather or anything else.
I expect to be well-informed about a lot of things, not brainwashed by a few.
By no means a qualified authority on this subject, I offer this as my personal viewpoint only.
As I said on the other thread, BBC domestic news, of which I mainly listened to that on BBC Radio 4, is a bit too provincial and politics-obsessed for me. On the humour front, it is in there, albeit of a rather dry, understated British variety.
I much prefer the BBC World Service news as being more international and, purely from a personal point of view, more interesting.
BBC TV news (the domestic variety; I havenāt seen BBC World but Iāve heard itās pretty dire) is not too bad but as with all TV news doesnāt have enough time to go into issues in sufficient depth.
In my mind, I tend to separate news and entertainment, which is why I find most TV news, and CNN in particular, a bit disturbing sometimes. CNN seems to draw its visual style from Hollywood action movies and we are given endless action replays of whatever is the current disaster or human tragedy. Of course we need to be told about things, but there are ways and means.
Darkchild, Iām curious to know what BBC news youāve listened to and watched, and how much. I fear that you may have been put off by the accents and hence missed what humour there is in there.
That may be it.It just seems so so so formal that itās almost deafening.CNN may get a lttle "Hollyweird but,at least you arenāt left feeling doomed during and,after every castā¦
if you ever get nearer to america (like PI), watch FOX news. this is CNNās domestic rival. in-freaking-creduhble. compared to these in-duh-viduals, CNN is heaven. CNN didnāt use to be as bad as it is now. They have had to glam things up to stave off Ruppert Murdochās FOX.
where in taiwan can i access BBC? nantaoyuan cable TV sure doesnāt carry it (or much of anything else).
Whatās more, my parents, who are in the US, also prefer the BBC news. Itās aired on TV against the local version of the national news, and they tune to the BBC broadcast every time.
The shameless self-promotion and general smugness of CNN anchors leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Give me BBC any day.
And where does CNN get those freaks who do the weather? Last CNN weather report I saw featured a bungling obese black woman who seemed to have only the most rudimentary command of English. Hasnāt political correctness and ādiversityā gone just a little bit too far?
Last CNN weather report I saw featured a bungling obese black woman who seemed to have only the most rudimentary command of English. Hasnāt political correctness and ādiversityā gone just a little bit too far?[/quote]
I would categorize your remarks as racist, sexist and fattist, monkeyā¦ :?
Last CNN weather report I saw featured a bungling obese black woman who seemed to have only the most rudimentary command of English. Hasnāt political correctness and ādiversityā gone just a little bit too far?[/quote]
I would categorize your remarks as racist, sexist and fattist, monkeyā¦ :?[/quote]
Now who is it who labels others (Fred Smith, Jeffu) of being gay? Sure itās incidental that sheās black; but her blackness is a fact.
Sure itās incidental that sheās black; but her blackness is a fact.[/quote]