Ever listen to the BBC?

[vito]

Sometimes late at night I wake up and can't easily fall back to sleep. I keep a small radio with headphones next to the bed so I can listen to the radio without disturbing my sleeping wife. AM radio is endless griping about Biden. I can't stand the buffoon President but even I get tired of the endless political prattle and it sure doesn't help me fall asleep. Sometimes I then switch to the classical music station, but lately I get impatient with what they are playing. So my last resort is the local PBS station that has the BBC from midnight to 5 AM. Sometimes the BBC is pretty interesting, even with their Leftist slant. But the other night made me realize that the worldview of those running the BBC is just incompatible with my sanity and sense of right and wrong. They were doing a segment on what they called something like "men who are pregnant". I couldn't even listen to how they would try to explain that stupidity, but I guess it was about so-called "transgender" men who are really women but delude themselves into thinking that they "really" are men, and thus when pregnant consider themselves "men who are pregnant". Its a free country and if mentally ill people want to think that they are of the opposite gender of what they are biologically that's their right to do so, but I'll be damned if I am willing to go along with their delusions, and even less interested in the BBC treating this issue as something of real importance. I guess my late night choices now will be AM ranting or classical music, or maybe a sleeping pill.

 

[Biggfoot44]

At first glance , BBC has greater plausibility than NPR , and they actually have more warm bodies on duty in various areas around the world .

Listen/ watch for a while , and they are MSM with at least the usual quota of insanity and alternative reality .

 

[WAYNO]

No, not ever. I get my ration of Queen's English watching ads for food choppers, vacuums and cleaning products on TV, as well as the English talking heads that have wrangled their way into American TV news.

There must be classes in England on how to get on American television. :wink:








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[graygun]

Those cute accents will make many dullards believe.

Most everything is polluted now.

 

[trebor44]

Used to be my goto for world news, not sure about it today. But in many ways it is more informative than some of the so-called "news" fed to the majority of the US.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I'm reminded of a movie (Rex Harrison) where one of the prime musical elements
was "WHEN will the English learn to speak?"

You want some r e a l l y bad english, listen to many of the Aussies. :wink:

But then again, WE have many groups that have significant problems with English. :shock:

 

[Fox Mike]

"WHEN will the English learn to speak?"

You want some r e a l l y bad english, listen to many of the Aussies. :wink:

Keep in mind that what we call English is actually bastardized English from the original English...as is the Aussie 'speak'. The British speak English, we speak an American version of English

 

[RSIno1]

.gov propaganda since day one. The mother country has no free speech laws so no need for an independent or rational media. Similar to our .gov and NEA lap dog - PBS,

The BBC is a public service broadcaster established by Royal Charter. It's funded by the licence fee paid by UK households. It provides ten national TV channels, regional TV programmes, an internet TV service (BBC Three), 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website.

 

[Jeepnik]

When I was stationed in Spain the BBC was the go to for news. Armed Forces Radio was, if not censored, certainly filtered. Spanish media was government censored. But the BBC still had its reputation for broadcasting truth.

Not sure how it is today but 50 years ago they could be counted on telling the truth.

 

[Colonialgirl]

For those complaining about the "ENGLISH" english; You MIGHT be interested to know that England has as many variations and accents as does the USA, including a very SOUTHERN accent. Some of them can actually talk SO FAST that you cant understand what they are saying. I learned and ran into this on the several trips I made to the UK to visit my friends.

 

[Johnnu2]

Nope

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[LDM]

The CBC is also a woke leftist propaganda organization. Any relationship between their reporting and true journalism is purely coincidental.

 

[Watchman]

You were listening to the BBC on NPR?!?

That should have been your first clue, and all you needed to know.

 

[blackhawknj]

A friend who works at night says he used to listen to it. He told me some years ago in the run up to World AIDS Day it seemed 75% of each hour was about AIDS, the Big Day came, they started reading the listeners' messages. He said the first one went "You have said nothing about how AIDS is transmitted and listening to your programs one would never know that AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease." The announcer said that almost all the other messages read the same. Next year he said they had almost no coverage.
The BBC, like the CBC, is a good argument against government control of broadcasting.

 

[Selena]

Save for the TV program "Sharpe" the BBC has nothing worth watching or listening to.

 

[hittman]

I’m just totally lost on what the fascination is with listening to or caring about what these foreigners and their news outlets say.

 

[ProfessorWes]

I remember listening to BBC on an old shortwave radio when I was a kid, although back then in the '70s it was a lot less leftist than it is today. Or maybe 10-year-old me wasn't politically aware enough to recognize the leftism, I don't know. Whichever way, I enjoyed listening to broadcasts on the Beeb and other foreign stations.

Back then there was a lot less clutter on the airwaves, too. After sundown I could pick up assorted out-of-state radio stations on the AM bands. WLS out of Chicago was a favorite; they were at the time a rock station, although at some point in the 80s they went to a news/talk format. On FM I could occasionally get KY102 or "Super Q" Q104 out of Kansas City, both at the time also rock stations.

Can't do that any more, of course; the EM spectrum is a lot more crowded and chaotic nowadays with broadband and cell phones and digital TV and whatnot. All of that started in the 80s, too.

 

[dannyd]

In the early 80's when the Navy was basically living off the cost of Lebanon we would listen to the BBC from the RAF base on Cypress; it wasn't bad and at least we knew the world was still out there.

 

[Jeepnik]

For those complaining about the "ENGLISH" english; You MIGHT be interested to know that England has as many variations and accents as does the USA, including a very SOUTHERN accent. Some of them can actually talk SO FAST that you cant understand what they are saying. I learned and ran into this on the several trips I made to the UK to visit my friends.

Yep, met a woman in Germany that was from up around the English Scottish border. She started speaking in her "native" tongue and no one in the place could understand her.

 

[dweis]

In the morning I occasionally listen to the BBC World Report on NPR. They do some good reporting on world affairs. I also have the BBC app in my iPad. I check that out daily because I like to the Brits point of view compared to the competing news providers in the US. I find both refreshing because BBC does not have a dog in the liberal/conservative fight that taints our news every day.

 

[akbluz]

I read the BBC news headlines in the morning just to see what's on there - and I take it with a grain of salt.