Part of my job is deciding what texts to read out on the BBC. Speaking on behalf of myself and not the BBC, I have to say that if I got a text on a particularly controversial issue from someone anonymous, I would be more than likely to ring them back to check first.
I quote from the BBC's Producer Guidelines, page 276. It's also at http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/producer_guides/text/section5.shtml. The emphasis is mine.
BBC Phone-ins are generally live in order to provide genuine spontaneity. This means that producers must constantly be alert to the...
The transcript of Blair's interview got me thinking while I was having a piss just now.
Say Prescott tuns Falmer down (I don't think he will, but...)
Could we overrule the minister's decision with the use of an Act of Parliament? There was, after all, an Brighton Marina Act that allowed the...
Well done DO. That's pretty good stuff
from Blair. He's a lawyer. He knows that by saying something out of turn he could stuff up our case. Fair play to him, to be honest (and that's the first time I've expressed a pro-Blair sentiment on NSC).
There is a piece in tonight's Manchester Evening News about the stick McManaman is getting from fans... and one of his team mates is defending him. It reads:
"DAVID JAMES leapt to the defence of team-mate Steve McManaman tonight..."
I wouldn't want David James leaping to my defence. He'd go...
The Tories will not win. Even if there was a swing from Labour to the Tories of 10.3 pc (which is what Blair got FROM the Tories in 1997) then Howard would still only have an overall majority of 2.
Wide Open Dykes (map)
4.7 miles
Willy Knot (map)
13.3 miles
Great Cockup (map)
15.4 miles
Little Cockup (map)
15.7 miles
Cock Play (map)
19.0 miles
Twathats (map)
20.4 miles
Cockermouth (map)
22.3 miles
Slag Hill (map)
28.5 miles
Tongue Head (map)
30.6 miles
Shitlington Crags (map)
31.6...
I don't think there's any sort of lasting memorial to David Sheppard at the county ground, is there? If not, I'd like to know why... especially when there is a STAND named after Arthur Gilligan, who was allegedly a Nazi, and a committee room named after Ted Dexter, who was the worst chairman of...
Oh dear. I've never listened to the phone-in, because I live far away and haven't got Seagulls World (cos I don't expecially want to pay for a second time to hear output produced BY MY EMPLOYERS which I've already paid a licence fee to fund anyway!)
But isn't this all a bit childish, really?
Dave Whelan said: "What is this - a police state? I thought we were fighting a war in Iraq trying to establish democracy. Why is it those same principles do not apply to Wigan?"
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