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  • Has the BBC started hiring tabloid staffers…?
  • bristolbiker
    Free Member

    From here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22908133

    Although Debenham had booked a three-night stay, he was rumbled after two nights by suspicious staff

    (I can’t recall the last time I heard anyone being ‘rumbled’ outside of Guy Ritchie’s celluloid world)

    And also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22907713

    This

    Describing the smash on its Facebook page, Chiswick RNLI said:…..

    Doesn’t really sit with

    There was superficial damage to gilded carvings on one side and a wooden crown on the stern was knocked overboard

    Maybe I just need to back away from the keyboard…. 😆

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    dummin down innit?

    chakaping
    Free Member

    First might well be from a court stringer or the PA, rather than a BBC staff reporter.

    Send them an email about it though, they love getting them.

    wallop
    Full Member

    Radio One newsreaders have been saying “gonna” for years. Boils my piss.

    jamiea
    Free Member

    Radio One newsreaders

    Are you twelve? No? Then what the flip are you doing listening to Radio 1?

    Cheers,
    Jamie

    ohnohesback
    Free Member

    The Beeb has been dumbing-down for the last thirty years.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Radio One newsreaders have been saying “gonna” for years.

    😀 “Radio 1 Newsbeat” is basically “John Craven’s Newsround” for the remedial kids.

    wallop
    Full Member

    Jamie – I don’t, anymore 😆

    jodafett
    Full Member

    Ex News of the World staff had to get a job somewhere!

    ohnohesback
    Free Member

    The trouble is that most BBC news is now ‘remedial’.

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