olympic sailing BBC 7.25pm tonite

[AlexL]

Re: BBC Olympics coverage

The BBC sport department has turned into a bit of a self appreciation gossip society of late. Hardly any actual sport coverage, but lots of Sue Barker et al chatting, or pontificating, or having interviews with sportsmens wives (who can forget the time that an entire evening wimbledon slot was taken up by Mrs Henman and Mrs Rudedski going shopping!, or the sports personality of the year debacle this year which didn't have any sport in it!) Personally I thing that 130 quid a year for the BBC (freeview indeed!) is a bit stiff and they should sink or swim in a commercial world like everybody else on the planet has to.
The BBC used to be good at what it does - minority sport coverage, good documentaries (blue planet for instance has sold worldwide), and news/current affairs. But it seems to have decided to try and compete with ITV by trying to dumb everything down and appeal to the Sun Reader / Big Brother viewer demographic.
I also listened to the BBC's reporting recently of a couple of (legal) news stories which my wife happened to know the actual story and the news was at best complete boll***s, at worst blatent lies to try and justify and editorial position. One can only assume that either we happened to listen to the only 2 'lies' ever, or the whole deal is completely rotten.

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[janeK]

Re: Send her home

Totally agree with the dippy brunette comments...its painfull to watch

Totally agree but not as painful as watching the blonde extensions and false nails being waved around 'poolside' as for the boob job well no comment...... never realised it got that cold at midday in Athens............

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[Jeremy_W]

Re: Send her home

Apparently she was going out with the Superbikes Champion and wrote to the BBC saying "why isn't there more Superbikes on TV" and they gave her the job of presenting it. So she knows less than nothing about sailing.

I don't actually mind the "simpleton asking the expert" style of explaining a complex sport to Joe Public (there's a classic sequence from the Sixties, for example, of Bob Fisher teaching Valerie Singleton to sail on Blue Peter: Val lobs easy questions at Bob which gives the whole sequence a coherence it wouldn't otherwise possess). But it takes time, and time's a luxury that the BBC presentation of sailing doesn't have at these Olympics.

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