Heathcliff, you're a God Damn Motherfucker.
Nope, doesn't make it better for me.
A contemporary adaptation of Emily Bronte's 1847 classic Wuthering Heights is to air on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday - complete with swear words.
Playwright Jonathan Holloway said he had introduced expletives into the tempestuous tale of romance "to shift the production to left field".
He said he wanted to "capture the shock" of the book's original release.
These people need to get out more.
The article is fuzzily written, and it's hard to tell if the words come from the original novel.
Maybe I need to get out more.
Read more here.
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Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
PHYSICIST PROFESSOR BRIAN COX THINKS SHOUTING MAKES SCIENCE EASIER TO UNDERSTAND
THE GREAT DUMBING...sorry, The Great Dumbing Down continues.
Physicist Professor Brian Cox has said the BBC made a mistake by agreeing to turn down the music volume for his scientific series Wonders of the Universe.
The BBC agreed to lower the sound after receiving 118 complaints about the background music on the first episode being too loud and/or intrusive.
Speaking on Radio 4's Start the Week, Cox said he thought it was an error.
"We can sometimes be too responsive to the minority of people that complain."
He added: "It should be a cinematic experience - it's a piece of film on television, not a lecture."
Translation: it was made for idiots, turn the sound back UP.
Read more here.
Physicist Professor Brian Cox has said the BBC made a mistake by agreeing to turn down the music volume for his scientific series Wonders of the Universe.
The BBC agreed to lower the sound after receiving 118 complaints about the background music on the first episode being too loud and/or intrusive.
Speaking on Radio 4's Start the Week, Cox said he thought it was an error.
"We can sometimes be too responsive to the minority of people that complain."
He added: "It should be a cinematic experience - it's a piece of film on television, not a lecture."
Translation: it was made for idiots, turn the sound back UP.
Read more here.
Friday, December 18, 2009
BBC: F*ck you and your "debate"
Peter Horrocks at the BBC tries to apologize for the cold and callous "debate" they tried to open over Uganda and its barbaric new law.
You might have read some of the coverage about a World Service Africa Have Your Say debate yesterday, or my colleague David Stead's blog post about it last night.
The original headline on our website was, in hindsight, too stark. We apologise for any offence it caused. But it's important that this does not detract from what is a crucial debate for Africans and the international community.
The programme was a legitimate and responsible attempt to support a challenging discussion about proposed legislation that advocates the death penalty for those who undertake certain homosexual activities in Uganda - an important issue where the BBC can provide a platform for debate that otherwise would not exist across the continent and beyond.
The man is an idiot, a cold hearted soulless bastard. Debate that.
You might have read some of the coverage about a World Service Africa Have Your Say debate yesterday, or my colleague David Stead's blog post about it last night.
The original headline on our website was, in hindsight, too stark. We apologise for any offence it caused. But it's important that this does not detract from what is a crucial debate for Africans and the international community.
The programme was a legitimate and responsible attempt to support a challenging discussion about proposed legislation that advocates the death penalty for those who undertake certain homosexual activities in Uganda - an important issue where the BBC can provide a platform for debate that otherwise would not exist across the continent and beyond.
The man is an idiot, a cold hearted soulless bastard. Debate that.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
CNN: Iraqi shoe thrower is "unrepentant"...BBC: "tortured"
Friday, January 16, 2009
Monday, August 18, 2008
CNN moralizes
The BBC reports a story this way:
US talk show host Ellen Degeneres marries her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, her publicist confirms.
Fine, a reporting of the facts.
CNN on the other hand:
Ellen DeGeneres 'marries' Portia Rossi
Note the use of quote marks. Have to make sure we know they don't approve.
UPDATE: CNN has changed it to:
Ellen DeGeneres reportedly weds Portia Rossi
Yeah, that is *so* much better.
Read more here.
US talk show host Ellen Degeneres marries her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, her publicist confirms.
Fine, a reporting of the facts.
CNN on the other hand:
Ellen DeGeneres 'marries' Portia Rossi
Note the use of quote marks. Have to make sure we know they don't approve.
UPDATE: CNN has changed it to:
Ellen DeGeneres reportedly weds Portia Rossi
Yeah, that is *so* much better.
Read more here.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
The Face of Idiocy
The BBC is to broadcast an apology after admitting a subsidiary company kept £106,000 from premium-rate phone- ins that should have gone to charity.
A further £6,000 will be donated after viewers were accidentally told to ring in to vote in last year's UK Eurovision final when lines were closed.
Read more here.
A further £6,000 will be donated after viewers were accidentally told to ring in to vote in last year's UK Eurovision final when lines were closed.
Read more here.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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