All posts by Andy Duncan
Below are all of Andy Duncan's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.This unwarranted and unjustified attack on the BBC has come about simply because the we now have a Tory government for the first time in 18 years, and they're feeling over confident and full of macho bravado. Where has the public clamour for an inquiry into the BBC been, where are the street protests over the "outrageous" size of the licence fee? None of it exists, it is the Tories stoking up a debate and putting seeds of doubt into minds simply because they have a ludicrous paranoia about perceived left wing bias at the BBC. In fact the bias is the other way round in the 95% of the media that is owned by the right wing, and when the BBC simply tries to correct that bias by giving a neutral unbiased view point, it is accused of being left wing. Don't believe the hype, as a famous rapper once said, you don't know what you've got till it's gone, in the word of another famous singer.
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Howard: Totally agree, in fact nearly all documentaries these days suffer from absurdly loud and melodramatic background music - no idea why producers appear to think they must make sure the audience understands what a really exciting programme they're watching - if it's good, interesting and maybe exciting (not compulsory) then if it's well made, that will be apparent, music needs to be there only as a subtle way of enhancing the viewing experience, not a sledgehammer drowning out the commentary!
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I would really like to know how and why the BBC acquired this reputation for being so left wing. If you want to know what biased TV reporting looks like watch Fox News, which is unashamedly and openly right wing (it's also extremely low quality, advert dominated, mass market rubbish, but that's another matter). Where is the actual evidence of this left wing bias, which programmes, which reporters, and what is broadcast that leads to this conclusion? It is one of those popular myths, the more it is stated the more it is believed, yet the hard evidence does not stack up - to defend the BBC, as Jonathan Dimbleby does, is not evidence of anything other than he likes it as a broadcasting network, you cannot take one person's individual views on any subject as evidence of anything at all, to do so is just wish fulfilment, a flawed thought process which goes Dimbleby is left wing, he likes the BBC, ergo the BBC is left wing, I'm afraid any case based on such simplistic logic is necessarily thrown out.
If the BBC consistently made programmes associated with known left wing causes, if it made a programme that supported or could be construed as supporting the scrapping of the nuclear deterrent for example , that would be evidence of a left wing bias. However to merely state that a view exists that scrapping the nuclear deterrent is favoured by some faction, is not bias, it is the reporting of a view held by another. If that view happens not to coincide with your own view, that is nothing to do with the BBC. I fear too may people confuse the reporting of a fact or idea with the notion that medium doing the reporting agrees with whatever is being reported, remember the old adage - don't shoot the messenger!
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"Of the three big companies providing streaming TV services Netflix is with 64 billion pounds," -
you should really check for typos before publishing, apart from looking so unprofessional, I had to read it three time before I guessed what on earth you were talking about.
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I have a friend in his early 70's who does not even know what channel numbers relate to what stations on his EPG, without bringing up his Guide, so it is not surprising lots of people don't watch in HD, they're simply too tech phobic to get to grips with learning the channel numbers. It's not difficult but they were basically happy when there were just 4 channels, and haven't really moved on from those days. The same people struggle with mobile phone menus, and just tech in general, it's all wasted on them.
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Thursday 29 March 2012 8:42AM
London
My daughter lives at postcode W11 1PH in London, and has never been able to receive Freeview channels 3,4,5,6,13,14,& 28, which are ITV & Channel 4 stations. The screen says either channel unavailable or no signal. Could this be a transmitter problem, or to do with her aerial or the TV itself? All other channels seem fine.