Posts Tagged “bbc”

“I didn’t avoid paying the TV licence on my second home in the Cotswolds for this type of material! Convert BBC3 to BBCVivaldi, BBCElgar or BBCClassicJimDavidson or abolish the damn thing altogether!”
And do it damn soon! Before my exclamation-mark key wears out!”

Hmmm, well I got that off my chest - Just a little warm-up so I can post a new version of a bad-taste image I first created several years ago and link again to my blue blog, where Blue Blue D’Or will be publishing material which ought never to have been seen (and sometimes hasn’t) on our television screens. This purely in the interests of exposing the depths to which our nation’s broadcasters have sunk (or are about to sink).

We MUST! rise up! We must write to our newspapers! We must campaign to have a ‘complain to OFCOM’ button added to our remote controls. (© Charlie Brooker)
Click here for my blue blog.

The Daily Mail seems to OWN the BBC…

“It’s shocking that Lesley Douglas has been hounded out of her job because Brand and Ross lost the plot.” - Aaron Heath - Blood On The Carpet over at Liberal Conspiracy

…as far as Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross are concerned.

As Chicken Yoghurt says, “Are you really telling me that the Justice Secretary’s ghost writer has nothing better to do than this?”
Link to Jack Straw on Comment is Free
“Tedious and indecent
Jonathan Ross makes me reach for the off switch - and the scotch. But not, perhaps, for much longer”

Meanwhile, dominating the headlines in laughing-stock Britain,
Update - I think I prefer this version and there is a different large version if you click on it…

Click image or here for much larger.

Yes, I’ve done this type of image before and it’s the same message - the demonisation of celebrity for readership and ratings. New visitors may notice that I used the same background picture when I created a Pete Doherty and Kate Moss image which was used to publicise an exhibition at The ICA and was subsequently screenprinted by the artist, Russell Young. At that time, I reckoned any simpleton would understand the meaning of the image without the addition of a newspaper logo - I was wrong and The Daily Mail went to town on it - and stole the original from this website to run on theirs.
JR and RB might have been dickheads but the furore and politicisation of the whole event is beyond all proportion.

BBC Report :

But to date not a single interpreter has been offered resettlement in the UK and reports suggest that over 100 have so far been rejected for not meeting the criteria.

Story on BBC
2 concepts presented :
Apologies to the folk at the BBC who sometimes come visiting…