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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 18:46:45, 27-08-2007 »
Has anyone else been offered one of those "Can you spare 5 minutes to answer some questions about the BBC Website" questionnaires when looking at the BBC Site today?

Once past the "soft" questions at the start, the question of "trust in the BBC" seemed to run through the questionnaire....
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« Reply #1 on: 19:41:01, 27-08-2007 »
Yes. I don't generally pay much attention to them though. Blithering nuisance.
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« Reply #2 on: 11:56:13, 28-08-2007 »
Isn't 'Can you trust the BBC?' something of a rhetorical question.

The answer - especially after recent events - has to be a resounding 'NO'!
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« Reply #3 on: 08:49:41, 29-08-2007 »
Whenenver I hear this question,whuch seems to come up every 2 years or so,I think of the 9 o'clock TV news item on Jaqueline du Pre's death.

It said her recording of the Elgar Concerto was the most authentic ever.Well,  It was certainly an overwhelmingliy intense and passionate peofrmnace, but it can be demonstrated by reference to the score as quite wayward and over-stated.

Worse,they said that by the time she had to stop playing she had recorded 'nearly every piece of music written for the instrument'.

On another occasion,a Radio 4 programme claimed that the only music that has survived from Delibes' 'Lakme' is one aria and one duet.  The many people who have the cpmplete sciore or one of the several complete recordings on their shelves,or who have attended a staging,must have wondered what they had been listening to.

Trivial instances,maybe,but it does make one wonder how accurate the rest of the BBC news is. 

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« Reply #4 on: 09:31:13, 29-08-2007 »
Auntie's current man in Moscow, Rupert Wingfield Hayes, recently filmed a tv report about a "secret street" in suburban Moscow called Rublevskoe Chaussee, where Moscow's nouveaux russes live hedonistic lives in concealed splendour.  "No one knows about this privileged street in Moscow!" claimed RWH.

No-one, that is, except for the viewers of the blockbuster tv mini-series "Rublevskoe Wives", whose social backdrop was the lifestyles of its residents, which went out at primetime on CTC,  the most watched entertainment channel nationwide.

And readers of THE ROUGH GUIDE TO MOSCOW, who have had a rundown on the whole area since two editions (five years) ago... when yours truly added it Wink
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« Reply #5 on: 11:08:07, 29-08-2007 »
Quote from: smittims on 08:49:41, 29-08-2007
Trivial instances,maybe,but it does make one wonder how accurate the rest of the BBC news is. 

The BBC's science reporting has been truely shocking in recent years, at least in the areas I know something about. Sloppy fact checking, wholesale swallowing of loony PR stories and reporting them as proven science, and a blatant editorial dishonesty when confronted with errors.

Like you, I have to wonder how accurate the rest of the news is Sad
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« Reply #6 on: 11:35:34, 29-08-2007 »
I'm sure I recall an R3 reference to 'The Queen Of Spades' as 'Tchaikovsky's only opera.'
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