Is the BBC Avoiding Critical Topics Like U.K Bankruptcy?

mewbie_2

chrisweb wrote: »

Lot of sensible stuff...

But you do realise that in the main the news is watched by people who want a quick flavour of events, nothing too heavy, preferably a personal or funny angle to it. Top stuff is people stuck in snow, or flooded out, especially air travellers affected (lucky holidaying bleeders), or politicians embarassed by expenses. If the BBC covered half what you suggest I'd be watching ITV.

Cleaver

mewbie wrote: »

But you do realise that in the main the news is watched by people who want a quick flavour of events, nothing too heavy, preferably a personal or funny angle to it. Top stuff is people stuck in snow, or flooded out, especially air travellers affected (lucky holidaying bleeders), or politicians embarassed by expenses. If the BBC covered half what you suggest I'd be watching ITV.

At the risk of us being confused for one body with two heads (better than being accussed of being !!!!!!? I guess, which is pretty much what everyone else being addressed as), I would completely agree. In fact, the rise of the internet means that you can get pretty much infinate information on any subject you like, at any time of the day. You're correct: the general public want a quick, light show that gives them a snapsnot of what's happening.

ITV news is just plain odd though. Full of holograms, floating graphics and weird camera shots zooming in on the next presenter who is 30 foot away from the last. I feel like I'm watching the news on the starship enterprise. And I keep expecting that alien who reads the news on the Simpsons to do an update.

purch

If the BBC covered half what you suggest I'd be watching ITV.

If the BBC covered half of it, they'd have to broadcast News, 24 hours a day

chrisweb..........yes we know that the BBC are not covering this in a particularly in-depth way, but there is no use getting all aerated about it.

The fact that you have managed to find out all this information on these subjects proves that accessing factual and non factual information is perfectly possible.

Expecting the BBC news or any other News organisation to include the sort of comment and opinion that you link too, is asking too much IMO

chrisweb

mewbie wrote: »

But you do realise that in the main the news is watched by people who want a quick flavour of events, nothing too heavy, preferably a personal or funny angle to it. Top stuff is people stuck in snow, or flooded out, especially air travellers affected (lucky holidaying bleeders), or politicians embarassed by expenses. If the BBC covered half what you suggest I'd be watching ITV.

I agree to an extent, but the BBC still covers the 'boring' economy stuff every day and none of the above gets mentioned, whereas some (but not all) does get discussed on Channel 4 news (I don't watch sky or ITV news so couldn't comment).

lostinrates

purch wrote: »

If the BBC covered half of it, they'd have to broadcast News, 24 hours a day

.....

Isn't that BBC News 24

Cleaver

I think the 'most read' list on the BBC website is often quite revealing as to what the public want to read about:

Most Popular Stories Right Now:
1 Davina McCall breaks decibel record
2 Man is forced to marry goat
3 Boy band Blue to reform
4 In Pictures: snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, snow, sn..
5 IMF runs out of money, we're all f*cked

Number 5 is probably only on the list as it's the main headline.

Rochdale_Pioneers

chriswebb - still sailing on the seas of Bankruptsea. Clinging onto the liferaft of a list of "certain poor and risky aspects of the UK economy" which he's now posted repeatedly, ignoring everything else thats been posted.

Funny thing this global economy. Each national economy works in conjunction with all the other economies. That means that if yours slows down quickly, but is outstripped by other countries slowing even quicker, your position actually strengthens. Not sure how that works in chris's world where he has the UK economy contained inside a snow globe, uninfluenced or untouched by anyone else.

setmefree2

chrisweb wrote: »

I posted this earlier:


- Niall Fergusen
- Robert Pretcher (January 2009, Elliot Wave forecast),
- Nadeem Walayat
- Jim Rogers
- Dan Atkinson
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Philip Delves Broughton
- Mike Shedlock
- Adrian Ash
- John Stepek
- Grant Thornton

Sorry I missed this post on MSE. However, I did see the same post on HPC.co.uk.

The links you make are the usual bunch of Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Money Week, articles with the same old authors that are flagged everyday on HPC.co.uk

They all support the same unrelenting script - "we're all doomed" "Buy gold" "Britain is finished" "House Prices will fall forever" "Britain is Bankrupt" "America is Bankrupt" "We hate everyone" "We care for noone but ourselves" "Everyone is an idiot"

Which only begs the question why have you brought this rubbish here? If we wanted to read it we'd just go to HPC ourselves?

StevieJ

setmefree2 wrote: »

Sorry I missed this post on MSE. However, I did see the same post on HPC.co.uk.

The links you make are the usual bunch of Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Money Week, articles with the same old authors that are flagged everyday on HPC.co.uk

They all support the same unrelenting script - "we're all doomed" "Buy gold" "Britain is finished" "House Prices will fall forever" "Britain is Bankrupt" "America is Bankrupt" "We hate everyone" "We care for noone but ourselves" "Everyone is an idiot"

Which only begs the question why have you brought this rubbish here? If we wanted to read it we'd just go to HPC ourselves?

I can only think that the HPC thingy is not quite going to plan so they have sent the
muggsies on the road trying to get a few converts a bit like the JW's and Mormons

chrisweb

I'm not ignoring whats been posted, I said bankruptcy is a possibility, just like it is possible it will not happen. I wouldn't want to bet eitherway, but I certainly don't see bankruptcy being ruled out.

That means that if yours slows down quickly, but is outstripped by other countries slowing even quicker, your position actually strengthens. Not sure how that works in chris's world where he has the UK economy contained inside a snow globe, uninfluenced or untouched by anyone else.

If a country is doing worse than the UK, it doesn't mean that the UK is not among the worst or doing badly, and that it still can't go bankrupt. Iceland was considered a rapidly growing economy not long before it went bankrupt.

The cost to insure UK government debt against bankruptcy has gone up by 63% recently (and possibly more since):
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=459038&in_page_id=2

Thee are the sort of facts not being mentioned on the BBC. The facts that can only really point to an increased risk (but not certainty) of UK bankruptcy.

When the U.K faced bankruptcy in 1975 and needed a bailout by the IMF to get through it, I'm sure 1 year before it was not the worst economy in the world.

Maybe you are insulting my intelligence and saying I live in a different world to everyone else because you think I'm predicting certain economic ruin with images or riots, looting, a barter economy, and people taking money around in a wheel barrel? While UK bankruptcy is not good it is not necessarily the end of the UK economy.