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Topic History of: Broadcasters controlled by the tabloids
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JK2006 |
The clue is in the words used NCS! |
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NCS |
It is definitely ridiculous: it's just a track and it's selling. A kid's song that's been popular through many generations and played for years by the very same barmy broadcasting corporation.
... violinists in the background who fiddled their taxes Is this conjecture JK or do you know something? |
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Kenneth Mintcake |
JK2006 wrote:
It really is typical BBC - they will play a brief excerpt to "explain to their listeners why it's there".
For God's sake - why?
Don't blame the BBC. We all know certain tabloids have a cynical anti-BBC agenda, but instead of condemning it the rest of the media sits back and enjoys it, leaving a truly invaluable institution to battle one silly campaign after another. The BBC had to respond to this nonsense, because, as you know only too well, it's nonsense peddled by publications that too large a proportion of the public regard as authoritative. |
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JK2006 |
It really is typical BBC - they will play a brief excerpt to "explain to their listeners why it's there".
For God's sake - why?
Are they going to explain that One Direction are at No4 because their teen girl fans like Harry's bum?
Or that some obscure rapper is No9 because they were big in Florida and their label decided to devote a hefty chunk of that week's budget to pushing it?
Or that a young singer songwriter was No4 because the wife of the Chairman of a publishing company fancied him?
Or that the golden oldie at No2 was a TV commercial for Boots so - not a real reason and they would only be playing 5 seconds of it?
I really despair of the sanity of our species. |
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DJones |
This stupid decision is an example of Thatcher's sinister legacy. Thatcher started (or at least intensified) the (politically & commercially motivated) attacks on the BBC in the 80s - and this is the result: A Radio One controller who "thought long and hard about how to respond" to a 70 year old song in the charts.
Ben Cooper: "I’ve therefore decided exceptionally that we should treat the rise of the song, based as it is on a political campaign to denigrate Lady Thatcher’s memory, as a news story. So we will play a brief excerpt of it in a short news report during the show which explains to our audience why a 70-year-old song is at the top of the charts. Most of them are too young to remember Lady Thatcher and many will be baffled by the sound of the Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz."
This "compromise" is the worst decision he could make. The campaign to get the song in the charts is certainly newsworthy. And the media is already full of reports about it. So there is no need for including a "short news report" in the R1 chart show. Just play the music.
Cooper has damaged the BBC much more than Jimmy Saville. |
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