BBC Inaccuracies

[jonty]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21049125

Journalism has been getting worse over the years, just through sheer laziness.

yet another case in point - The MI6 building is referred to as the M16 building in the graphic. Doesn no-one at the BBC have an ounce of common sense or awareness? Does no-one check content or understand the context?

Its the kind of crap i'd expect from a red-top but the BBC? (yes, the irony, the top of the bbc website is red :greengrin)


Rant over.

[Beefster]

Is it really that big a deal? Given the monumental output that the BBC produces, I'd expect a few typing errors here and there.

[Scouse Hibee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21049125

Journalism has been getting worse over the years, just through sheer laziness.

yet another case in point - The MI6 building is referred to as the M16 building in the graphic. Doesn no-one at the BBC have an ounce of common sense or awareness? Does no-one check content or understand the context?

Its the kind of crap i'd expect from a red-top but the BBC? (yes, the irony, the top of the bbc website is red :greengrin)


Rant over.

Read your own post and realise everyone can make mistakes :greengrin

[jonty]

Is it really that big a deal? Given the monumental output that the BBC produces, I'd expect a few typing errors here and there.
Yes. They're the largest, most popular, heaviest used website in the UK (if not further afield). Given that most will be spell checked, there shouldnt be any spelling errors.
Its lazyness. The spell checker does its work, makes them into proper 'words' yet the grammer and context is nonsense.

yes, i expect better given how many millions get spent on the BBC every year.

Next we'll be getting told its Buckingham Place, or Edinburghs Princeses Street.

No one appears to take pride in their work any more.



Read your own post and realise everyone can make mistakes :greengrin

Sadly my posts arent edited, re-edited and funded by licence-fee payers.

I also should not be seen as a news reported, or the font of all knowledge. sadly. :greengrin


Even i have my limitations. speeling and gramma being one of them. :wink:
I know i'm just ***** :greengrin

[lapsedhibee]

Its lazyness.

:hmmm:

[jonty]

:hmmm:
Self improvement! :greengrin

clearly i set my standards too high.


i learneded all my stuff on hibs.net and was hoping that reading the BBC would improve me.
After watching James Bond even I know its MI6 and not the M16 - it runs/ran through Potters Bar.

[jonty]

And its getting worse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21070945


:greengrin

[lapsedhibee]

And its getting worse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21070945


:greengrin

At first I thought the "worser" was going to be the start of some sort of spoof coverage, but no.

That appears to be a real error and is, genuinely, shocking. :bitchy:

[jonty]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/scotland/21067118
*sigh*


Possibly oungest Hearts team ever - John McGlynn

Not even spell checked.

Is it not possible to get correct grammer, speeling and punctuation from a news source? No wonder the kids nowadays are what they are.

(OMG I've turned into my grandad:greengrin)

[RyeSloan]

At first I thought the "worser" was going to be the start of some sort of spoof coverage, but no.

That appears to be a real error and is, genuinely, shocking. :bitchy:

I must be missing your irony as it was clearly a deliberate 'mistake'

[lapsedhibee]

I must be missing your irony as it was clearly a deliberate 'mistake'

I hope you are right, but there's nothing in the whole of the rest of that clip to suggest that it was. The whole report seemed to me to be completely straight.

[Sir David Gray]

I hope you are right, but there's nothing in the whole of the rest of that clip to suggest that it was. The whole report seemed to me to be completely straight.

Definitely a deliberate mistake.

[lapsedhibee]

Definitely a deliberate mistake.

Yeah, agree on reflection. I guess I must of been spending to much time on the interweb, where so much grammar and spelling is optional. Are optional. Where so many grammar and spelling are optional. So many grammars and spellings are optional. **, **** **