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Question for BH expat regulars - do you use BBC online news?
If so do you see adverts? What sort of adverts? Question prompted by
this
Not particularly a 'Brexit' issue more an interest in what sort of ad campaigns, if any, the BeeB runs on its 'overseas' website
Green Sand
Further to the story about photo-shopping students throwing mortar boards in the air at a UEA graduaiton (Daily Mail and WUWT), Radio 4's Today had Nick Robinson at UEA for a breakfast meeting with students to discuss their voting plans in the EU referendum. The level of education was astoundingly brought out when listening to the students (one from the Students' Union), when one chap claimed that many students didn't have the facts, especially lower class and working class students: "We weren't learned that", he said. Yet another said, predictably, seeing where we were, that only by leaving the EU could the UK lead the world in controlling Climate Change.
<going to lie down now>
Harry Passfield
One of the things it's doing is moving the recipies to its commecial branch. It's been going on for a while, that license paid stuff has been transferred to the commercial side (for free or a legitimate market price?), to be sold to us again at a later date.
TinyCO2
Here is why the BBC has made the recipe scare. BBC recipes: to defend its empire, the Corporation misleads the public.
There is, as yet, no evidence that the BBC contrived this entire row for its own ends. But its effect is that people have now been misled about the Government’s wholly justified attempts to refocus the BBC on its original mission of public sector broadcasting and reduce its unwarranted incursions into markets where businesses meet public demand perfectly well.
Doubtless this misinformation serves the BBC’s purposes. Despite claiming to be willing to work constructively with ministers on reforms that would justify its continued existence in a multi-platform on-demand media industry, the Corporation has been deeply reluctant to reduce its vast scope. The BBC is an empire and like all empires it defends its territory - in this case using shameful tactics.
Yet again the BBC shows itself to be totally untrustworthy.
Phillip Bratby
stewgreen
That's an interesting catch.
It does make you wonder if it's right to use the Licence Fee to put non-broadcasting (not TV or Radio) companies out of business.
SandyS
Bio crops to clean contaminated land
- Dirty land cleaning * There'll be a SUBSIDY for that
- Bio Energy ........ * There'll be a SUBSIDY for that
- Recovering metals for catalysis - But if that stage is not done properly the bio energy plant ends up dispersing contaminants into the environment.
"Use of energy crops for phytoremediation purposes" - Eleni G. Papazogloufrom a recent presentation at Cranfield
- PDF of her her old presentation
I wonder about "case studies" : actual REAL WORLD (not laboratory) "case studies"
stewgreen
That "BBC recipe" scapping maybe as a result of an interaction on last weeks Radio 4 Media Show
The BBC manager was on vs a MP/print media representative
That guy said something like 'of course the BBC is crowding out old print media, recipe pages used to a mainstay of print newspapers, but now the ever growing BBC website has a huge recipe section.. Why is the BBC online the largest provider of recipes ?'
stewgreen
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can fake it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo
clipe
mikeh - very funny. Gotta watch those pesky butterflies.
TinyCO2
"What's the recipe today, Jim?"
Yesterday it was Angelina Jolie lecturing us all about refugees etc. and publicity for Christian Aid's biblical flood polemic (which Paul Homewood pointed out seemed to take little account of local sea level trends). Google suggested that the Christian Aid thingy was covered mainly by the specialist Green publications, with only the Daily Mail of the rest picking up on it (most visibly via a Katie Hopkins piece about the BBC using the recipes saga as distraction tactics while they pour out the propaganda elsewhere, not picked by the search).