Phew - well, hope all who took part in it enjoyed last night's "Question Time Live!" adventure. Have to say the time went in very quickly at this end and your comments were both witty and perceptive! Half ways through, something happened to my control screen which meant that I moderated blind for the second part of the show. You may not have noticed anything odd at your end but it was tricky for me. Next week, I am planning to have a fellow moderator to help take the strain and have accepted B-BBC Geoff's kind offer. It may be that as this grows we will need more moderators - I have found that doing it all by myself means I can rarely comment and it's hard to follow the actual show!! So thanks again to all who popped along and hope even more come along next week! And now.... General BBC-related comment thread. Please use this thread for comments about the BBC's current programming and activities. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog - scroll down for new topic-specific posts. N.B. This is not an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Thoughtful comments are encouraged. Comments may also be moderated. Any suggestions for stories that you might like covered would be appreciated! It's your space, use it wisely. Labels: open thread David Vance # Ok, so we may be "officially" in recession but hey, surely things can only get better under The Great Leader! Anyone catch him on "Today" this morning? I see B-BBC regular Notasheep is prominently quoted by the BBC in the link. So what did you think of the Brown interview? I was unable to hear it but for my sins, I did hear a curious interview conducted just after 7am with Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University. This guru gave a surprisingly upbeat assessment of our economic prospects - I presume his role was that of John the Baptist to Brown's appearance at 8.10am? I know that the great Roubini is a man whose opinions are much in demand these days and I also know that he is a big supporter of Obama's economic team, so I suppose no better man to prepare the way for Mr Broon? The BBC select their guests with great care. Labels: Economy Natalie # Steve T in comments pointed out this post by TonyN of "Harmless Sky". TonyN links to an audio clip of Obama apparently saying, "We will restore science to its rightful place, [and] roll back the spectre of a warming planet. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories." But, as TonyN writes: When the program [i.e. Newsnight - NS] was over, I went back to the text and this is what I found. It would seem that someone at the BBC had taken the trouble to splice the tape so that half a sentence from paragraph 16 of the inauguration speech was joined on to half a sentence from paragraph 22, and this apparently continuous sound bite was completed by returning to paragraph 16 again to lift another complete sentence. (Added later.) To make one sentence out of two widely separated half-sentences would be shabby and manipulative enough for a broadcaster. To then interfere with the order in which things were said, so that the sentence fragment about "a warming planet" has been falsely interposed between other phrases to which it had no real link, is yet worse. The BBC has gone beyond "dowdification" into something else. "Beebification", perhaps. (Another update.) You can hear the spliced audio clip directly from the BBC in the "video essay" at the base of this blog post by Susan Watts,Newsnight's science editor. Quite apart from the splicing, the Susan Watts post itself would provide material enough for another B-BBC post("Scientists have grown used to attempts to silence them") - but I have to be gone. Labels: global warming, obama, scienceBiased BBC Friday, January 23, 2009
David Vance #I didn’t seem to remember him saying that at all.
Read the rest of his detailed analysis. Incidentally, I couldn't hear an "and" at the first splice-point of the audio clip, just an unidentifiable noise.
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