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I’m still a bit perplexed by this BBC article. I picked up on it earlier when researching personal finance stories, and ended up writing about it for a client.
The thing is, the BBC seems quite sure that the FSA “is to examine the rules governing websites that compare insurance products”. And, at the time of [...]

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OK, I made a new year’s resolution to leave the BBC alone, but I can’t resist it.

Sorry.

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Charlie and I normally agree on a remarkably high proportion of things, so much so, in fact, that people are beginning to see us as a happily married couple. Just to scotch that particular rumour, then, here’s something we don’t agree on.
Or should that be, “here’s something that we don’t agree on”?
In the context of [...]

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A while back, the BBC caused a ripple of excitement (at least for this blogger) when it started to furnish stories with social bookmarking links.
Far more significantly, perhaps, BBC News has just embedded a YouTube video directly into an article.
I’m not a regular reader of the BBC’s entertainment stories, but this is the first time [...]

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I love the BBC’s most emailed and most read lists, partly because they help you spot interesting stories you might have missed, but largely because they show you where its readers’ collective mind is at: in the gutter.
Every now and then, particularly prurient and snigger-worthy stories resurface as a new wave of people dig them [...]

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A moment, if you will, to mark a milestone dear to our hearts. Some time this week, BBC News Online marks its tenth year.
Though I frequently knock it, there’s a lot to love about the site and what it represents - the availability of almost its entire archive, for example.
Charmingly, unlike most other sites out [...]

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I seem to remember reading that every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off your life. If all you’re going to do in the extra seven minutes is invent equally smug statistics you might as well carry on smoking.
Another way to chisel away at your life expectancy is to watch 24-hour television news. I can’t [...]

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Ok, I promised that my next post wouldn’t be about the Beeb. Sorry.
Just wondering if anyone else finds it annoying to be told to ‘log on’ to a website. The BBC do it all the time. Earlier this summer there was a particularly grating little segment they kept playing on South East Today (be thankful, [...]

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Writing online gives you the welcome opportunity to fix the kind of clangers that, were you in print, you’d be stuck with. On the other hand, changing stories that are already live can leave your readers with an insight into the editorial process that you might not have intended.
Spending a lot of time looking at [...]

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