Got cross with the Blathersphere and its madness again on Friday to the extent that I bothered to complain to the BBC's 'Feeedback' programme yesterday...
Dear BBC Feedback,
Re reporting of Ed Miliband and the deaths in the
Mediterranean...
Yesterday the Today programme spent some time reporting on
something that a politician was apparently going to say later in the day. It then went on to report on the reaction
from the other parties to the thing that the politician was apparently going to
say later in the day. Later in the day
other BBC news programmes reported what the politician had said and the various
reactions to it. Apparently the politician
didn’t say exactly what he was expected to say (and that we’d been told he
would say) and there were therefore further reports about the fact that the
politician had said something slightly different later in the day to what it
was said he was going to say when reported earlier in the day.
Might I suggest that news should perhaps be about things
that have actually been said or have actually happened? Or would that be a bit stuffy and old
fashioned?
Yours sincerely
John Parkes
2 comments:
"its"
Corrected!
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