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[b]Denise wrote:[/b]
[quote]Well this has opened up a bigger debate than I thought.

On the overall scale of universal disasters it was not &quot;awful&quot;, but to me as a viewer I thought the BBC should have done better. It was sloppy and easily correctable. I knew what she meant, but I use he word awful as my personal opinion. Some people think curry is &quot;awful&quot;. It's a word which, like many, is used in various ways to various degrees to describe a low opinion of something.

It is a widely known fact that Mr Pickwick was not in Oliver Twist, and I can't believe that nobody at the BBC noticed this error. They filmed their own version of Oliver Twist only last year. The book is covered in English Literature courses in schools nationwide. It's not as though she was referring to some obscure novel by an unknown writer.

Should we never pull up the BBC for making a mistake? 
Am I not permitted to voice an opinion?

On my media studies course I would have been marked down for such a careless error, and rightly so.

If an apology was in order, it would be to the viewers who help finance the BBC, but I wouldn't personally pursue or expect an apolgy - just more of an effort in future.

BTW, going back to a workhouse in England wouldn't be greatly expensive, and it would demonstrate that the BBC cared about the standard of their output.[/quote]

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Topic History of: Awful BBC gaff !
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Author	Message
JK2006	Agreed and correct Denise. Thread closed!
Denise	Al, I would not bother continuing this debate. The pattern of responses suggest a single mind behind several names, and it becomes more pointless. It's mere pedanticism. Time to move on.
Liam	Yes. The 'judge' says it was a mistake. That's what I thought.
Liam	Pease keep your views constant M8. Wrong or right. Al...and watch .........
Al	Elgar wrote: Al, I think you'll just have to be the judge - and please keep to the point. I did keep to the point. Elgar wrote:If in a serious context, in a TV show, an actor/presenter called Superman's mate 'Robin' - would that be an 'awful gaff' ? If in a serious context, yes it would Elgar wrote:Or just - in your view - an irelevancy, concerning fictitious people who had appeared in numerous books and movies. In a private casual conversation it would be no big deal, but we are not talking about a private casual conversation. We are talking about professional broadcasters who, viewers would hope, would have done some proper research and be in posession of a certain level of knowledge about their subject.