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BBC News WTF?

It’s been confirmed today, by people responsible for confirming things, that the BBC News website, often cited by Americans as being the place for responsible and accurate news reporting (stop laughing at the back), is the single most boring website in the history of Planet Fucking Earth.

Seriously, switch it off and go home, the lot of you!

Sep 23, 2009

“But the White House doesn’t have quite the same clout when it comes to new media. The gossip site TMZ has broadcast the comments in all their vernacular glory. When Obama realised his comment might cause offence to an often prudish American public he pleaded with the journalist to “cut the president some slack”. If nothing else, the exchange reveals a pally relationship with the media that may now be unravelling.” —

This is a classic example of a journalist leading a story in a patently false direction. The use of the words “pleading” and “pally” builds a picture in the readers mind a picture that simply does not exist.

If you listen to the recording President Obama is not “pleading” with anyone. He is clearly joking around with the reporters.

Furthermore, the idea of journalists repeating information that was stated as being “off the record” is an unforgivable breach of ethics.

Listen to Obama call Kanye West a ‘jackass’ | World news | guardian.co.uk

Sep 16, 2009

“Papalexis, who had held a fundraiser at his Florida home for Hillary Clinton, had Christodoulides killed as he would not leave the £2m warehouse building he was trying to sell, the court heard.” —

Why is that little piece of information relevant to the story of a property developer whom, being devoid of sanity, had a poor man murdered for financial gain? Is the BBC trying to paint Democrats or Hilary Clinton as the type of folks that associate with murderers?

The fact that BBC stories rarely come with a journalist’s name or news agency sourcing makes the inclusion of the snippet all the more idiotic.

BBC NEWS | England | London | Developer guilty of tenant murder

Sep 7, 2009

Isn’t there an outside chance that thin or fat thighs was going to come out the winner here? If the majority of folks, of the 3000 tested, had thin thighs wouldn’t the opposite then be true?

Sep 4, 2009

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