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Anyone would think the gentlemen of the press wanted Northern Rock to go tits-up. At the very least there’s been some incautious language going around these last few days.
You can understand a bit of hysteria from people whose life-savings might be on the line, but isn’t it our job as journalists to get a grip [...]

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Now I wasn’t going to go on about the BBC again for a while, but this is interesting so bear with me. Last week I happened upon this BBC story, which informed this piece for Living.
You’ll notice that in the Living story I refer to “the BBC’s enthusiasm” which, to put it mildly, was gushing. [...]

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“Fact me till I fart,” Chris Morris once commanded. That man was way ahead of the curve.
In this little beauty, the BBC has bravely dispensed with those troublesome linking ideas that pull a story together, in preference for the stark-bollock-naked facts. It’s all rather conventional up until the crosshead, but then the journo lets rip.
‘Thousands [...]

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Alright, it’s not just about the BBC, but are all the sub-editors on holiday?
Apparently, eight out of ten people feel safe. What about now? Do you feel safe now?
And now?
Still, at least you haven’t got global warming to worry about, as a Scottish bus builder hopes to invent a bus with zero emissions. Apart from [...]

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Right blogging powerhouse I’m turning out to be. What’s this, five posts in a month? Anyway, I’ve opened this up to my colleague Charlie, aka the Bird Man of Firle. I hope he’ll offer something more insightful than my usual carping about BBC News.
I’d invite other journalists I’ve worked with, but they all work for [...]

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Anyone looked at BBC News today? Stupid question really. You don’t need to see the site’s off-the-scale Social Meter score to know it’s one of the most authoritative on the internet, even if its writers still don’t know where to put an apostrophe.

The site’s lovable semi-literate fucknuttery remains intact, then, but the Beeb has finally [...]

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