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The Biggest If Of All, Part II
Scott Rafer riffs on my recent post, The Biggest If Of All, where I suggest that this time it might be different, this time we may have moved into a new era, a new economy: the postnormal. Rafer says it's just the same old same old:
@stoweboyd This purely academic question gets asked every business cycle. It was being asked on the upside in the late 90s if you recall. In this (not very) regulated financial environment, investment managers figure out how to play new conditions which makes the answer to your question "No" +/- 20%.
Well, logically, just because someone said X would happen 15 years ago and it didn't doesn't mean that someone saying X now is wrong. Those are independent events, at least in principle.
My point is something else entirely. We are living in a time where uncertainty is so great that businesses and investors are finding it increasingly impossible to make judgments about where things are headed. Andrew Ross Sorkin recently wrote about this:
The Election Won't Solve All Puzzles - Andrew Ross Sorkin via NYTimes.com
"Uncertainty" has become the watchword over the last several years for many chief executives, politicians and economists as an explanation — or perhaps an excuse — for the economy's slow growth, for the lack of hiring by business and for the volatility in the stock market.
"The claim is that businesses and households are uncertain about future taxes, spending levels, regulations, health care reform and interest rates. In turn, this uncertainty leads them to postpone spending on investment and consumption goods and to slow hiring, impeding the recovery," a group of professors from Stanford University and the University of Chicago wrote in a study that found "current levels of economic policy uncertainty are at extremely elevated levels compared to recent history." (The professors have created a Web site, policyuncertainty.com, where you can track the "uncertainty" levels.)
If you go look at the other charts — like the European Policy Uncertainty Index — economic uncertainty has been steadily rising since 2007.
We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty. - Denise CaronSo my point is different. Investors and other business people will find it harder to reason about possible futures because we have moved onto shifting ground. It's a VUCA world, characterized as increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
As I wrote in July, regarding our blindness regarding the postnormal climate we've made for ourselves,
The biggest problem is that people's thinking patterns are stuck in the old days, and I don't just mean their expectations about 'normal' weather. No, even worse is that people can't accept the reality that in the post-normal we will never have the luxury of time to assess and then adapt. Linear problem-solving approaches will simply not work anymore.
But this is not a call for more old world leadership, characterized by moving fast, and looking for permanent 'solutions' to well-defined and researched 'problems'. Instead, we need leaders demonstrating the 'VUCA Prime' characteristics, as Bob Johansen has styled it.
Denise Caron makes the break between the old world and the new one very clear:
We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty.
So, in this context, there is no 'solution' to infrastructure stress and failure based on more violent weather. We are stuck in a problem space which is fundamentally unsolvable, but we have to try to make sense of this in the context of the larger world.
For example: the financial constraints of our weakened economy mean that we may not be able to repair the interstate highway system, but we might extend and maintain the train system for people moving. Do we have the foresight to disinvest in the highway system? Can we shift from a truck-based logistics system to boats, trains, and airships for long-distance hauling?
We are just as trapped in our thinking as we are in a rapidly changing global weather system, and without leaders with the mindset and skillset geared for the post-normal world, we will never find our way out.
The analysis about weather is paralleled by our inability to logically untangle the financial mess the world is in. And it's not that we need to get smarter, do more analysis, put more brilliant minds on it: the system is so large, interconnected, and complex that it cannot be understood. It is a complex non-linear system, barreling along as fast as we can fuel it, and it cannot be neatly reduced to a set of smaller, more easily understood parts, unless we actually start disconnecting the parts.
But are we taking steps to disconnect the world's financial markets? To raise trade barriers, and diminish global supply chains? To require companies to only do business in one country, and to only compete in a single marketplace? To break up vertically integrated multinationals? No. And leaving aside whether this would be a 'good' thing in some moral or ideological sense, we aren't doing it. If anything, the world is growing more interconnected and complex.
At the macroeconomic level, this poses astonishing policy issues, the first of which is seeing the forest for the trees: that we've moved into new territory and we have no map. At the microeconomic level, the investor or business leader has a set of tools that used to work, a map that used to show the way, a compass that found north. But they don't work anymore. They no longer point the way, or suggest that all ways forward are equally uncertain of success.
Specifically with regard to investments in tech, David Lee at SV Angel recently said 'It has never been easier to start a company, and never harder to build one', regarding the structural issues in the tech funding world. VC's don't see a clear path for a real return on investments in commerce 2.0, games, or apps that rely on Facebook, Twitter, or other platforms. And the result of that uncertainty is being reflected in a decreased amount of later stage investments. This is an echo of the international fund managers I wrote about in the first installment of The Biggest If Of All, many of whom state that uncertainty has never been greater, or of more import in the investment world. So they, like tech VC's, are holding back, and waiting for a return to normalcy.
But what if it never comes?
We know that the changes we've already made to our ecological world will take at least hundreds of years to reverse. Perhaps we've turned a similar curve in the economic and policy world. And we don't know what the world will look like in a hundred years or so, and perhaps there is simply no way to figure out what is going to happen in the next five years, either.Blog comments powered by Disqus
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While Brock Lesnar is not defending the WWE Heavyweight Championship for the time being, that does not mean that he is simply just sitting around the house. In addition to working out on a daily basis, the former UFC Heavyweight Champion has been doing a lot of hunting up in Canada recently. No word yet on when his official return to WWE is, but many are expecting it to be in time for Royal Rumble 2015.
October 16, 2014
It has been several years since the two of them worked together, but Chris Jericho still harbors a good amount of resentment towards Goldberg. During a one night show in London, Jericho expressed his feelings about the former WCW champion to the audience. He stated that Golberg had a bad attitude, no sense of humor and was an idiot. Jericho also noted that a pay per view match between the two of them never took place because Goldberg opted to go hunting that day instead.
June 14, 2014
Now that he has received his release from WWE, Brodus Clay has already planned out the next phase of his life. Rather than jumping back into the wrestling ring immediately, the former bodyguard has opted to book himself on a trip to Japan, so that he can help protest against those that are hunting dolphins. Clay left open the possibility of working some matches in Japan if that option were to become available to him.
June 13, 2014
Former WWE star Ted DiBiase recently mentioned that he wanted to hunt with Shawn Michaels, which has led to speculations that he could be setting up a guest appearance on Michaels' television show.
November 28, 2013
During a recent interview with Alternative Nation, Hornswoggle was asked about his backstage heat with the Rock. The WWE star revealed some details about an incident that took place when the Rock was revealed as the special guest host of Wrestlemania 27. Hornswoggle stated that the Rock confused him for a Make a Wish kid. Rock apparently tapped him on the shoulders and asked if he had a good time at the show.
August 29, 2014
During a recent interview, Jinder Mahal revealed that he was surprised by his WWE release. He stated that he and Drew McIntyre had no signs from management that they were on the bubble. Mahal noted that 3MB, which currently only consists of Heath Slater and Hornswoggle, was booked on a lot of events, so they felt that their job security was not a concern at the time. WWE, however, needed to cut cost.
June 26, 2014
For those that are wondering about the fate of 3MB after Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre received their release from WWE earlier in the week, it appears that the company will keep Heath Slater and Hornswoggle together. The two of them worked a tag team match over the weekend at a WWE live event in Canada. The faced Diego and El Torito in a losing effort.
June 15, 2014
During a recent interview with the Post Crescent, Hornswoggle revealed something rather interesting. It appears that a good amount of fans have turned on him, with many openly wondering why he still has a job with WWE. Hornswoggle has been taking it well, however. He states that he simply laughs it off. The widespread belief is that his job security is pretty high thanks to the upcoming release of the Leprechaun movie, which he stars in.
June 11, 2014
During a recent interview while in Wisconsin for a live event, Hornswoggle revealed the person that helped him get hired with WWE. It was actually Mr Anderson, who now works for TNA. The company was look at about a dozen midget wrestlers at the time, and Anderson convinced management to sign Hornswoggle. Finlay was also revealed as another person that pushed for WWE to sign Hornswoggle.
June 8, 2014
A status update on Twitter from Drew McIntyre, where the WWE star mocked Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns for breaking up while he, Jinder Mahal, Hornswoggle and Heath Slater still remain a team.
June 4, 2014
A picture of WWE star Hornswoggle now that he has been shaved bald after a loss to El Torito at the Payback 2014 pay per view.
June 2, 2014
For those of you that did not watch the Payback 2014 kickoff match, El Torito defeated Hornswoggle with a flying top rope moonsault. Hornswoggle had gotten distracted by thinking that he won after pulling off the mask. Afterwards, Hornswoggle was forced to sit in a barber chair while El Torito shaved his head. Hornswoggle is now bald, and expect WWE to promote that on Monday Night Raw this week.
June 1, 2014
A video from Monday Night Raw of El Torito celebrating Cinco de Mayo with Diego and Fernando before being attacked by Hornswoggle, Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre.
May 6, 2014
A picture of the mini announce team used by WWE at Extreme Rules 2014 during the WeeLC match between Hornswoggle and El Torito. The trio basically was a mock version of JBL, Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler, where they were respectively named JB Elf, Micro Cole and Jerry Smaller.
May 5, 2014
During the Extreme Rules 2014 kickoff match, El Torito defeated Hornswoggle. He picked up the pin fall victory after jumping off the top rope and driving Hornswoggle through the table. Miniature tables and ladders were utilized during the WeeLC match. Diego, Fernando, Heath Slater, Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre were all involved in the match.
May 4, 2014
Over the last decade, it has been repeatedly stated that the creative department likes to do segments that amuse Vince McMahon, and it appears that they have done that once again by pairing Hornswoggle and El Torito together in a WeeLC match at Extreme Rules 2014, where the performers will most likely work with small ladders, tables and chairs.
April 29, 2014
A post from Twitter, where WWE star William Regal expresses some remorse for attacking Hornswoggle on Monday Night Raw once.
April 24, 2014
A video of the match between El Torito and Hornswoggle on WWE Main Event this week. The company wants to have these two performers working a series of matches, so expect to see more interaction between the two of them on Monday Night Raw and Smackdown in the coming weeks.
April 24, 2014
A video of the match between Hornswoggle, who rarely gets to wrestle in WWE nowadays, and El Torito on Smackdown.
April 21, 2014
One of the ideas being tossed around right now backstage in WWE is to have Hornswoggle and El Torito wrestling one another on a pretty frequent basis. The two of them will be featured on Smackdown this week, and there could be more matches coming up. WWE had the two of them training together for a couple of weeks to ensure that the match quality is decent.
April 17, 2014
On WWE Main Event, Hornswoggle teamed up with Jinder Mahal and Drew McIntyre, which has caused some speculations to arise. Rumors over the past several weeks have stated that Heath Slater was unhappy backstage because he was not receiving a push. However, his absence on this show was unrelated, as Slater missed the show because he is heading to Saudi Arabia for a tour with WWE.
April 17, 2014
Every year, a couple of people within WWE are forced to miss the hall of fame induction ceremony because the company needs to keep the Axxess shows going. This year, Hornswoggle is going to be one of those people. He will be manning a booth while Jake Roberts, Ultimate Warrior, Scott Hall, Lita, Carlos Colon, Paul Bearer and Mr T are inducted.
April 5, 2014
A picture of Hornswoggle on a movie set with Tina Fey. The long time WWE performer has a brief role as a convict in a Russian prison in the new Muppets movie.
March 17, 2014
While he rarely gets television time on Monday Night Raw as is, Hornswoggle will certainly not be there this week, as the WWE star will be in Los Angeles, representing the company at the world premier of the Muppets Most Wanted movie. Aside from being a huge fan, he also has a cameo appearance in the film as well.
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BBC hacks – tweet the crap out of the news, cries tech-dazzled Trust
BBC News reporters should tweet more and use bigger and shinier infographics to bridge the gulf between the corporation and its audience, a W1A-ish report from the BBC Trust recommends. The report, titled "Getting the best out of the BBC for licence fee payers: BBC Trust Review, BBC Network News and Current Affairs", reveals a …
I used to watch the BBC news as I felt it was a proper news channel. But clearly that wasn't working for them, and in my eyes they seem to be now verging on as much sensationalism as your average tabloid, just to get their numbers up. So I stopped watching. I blame Ron Burgandy and the introduction of 24 hour news.
Strangely I now think that The Daily Show is the only proper news show out there.
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Fucking Greg Dyke is to blame for dumbing the news down in order to try and get more audience. And hasn't that worked well?
Good journalism will always find an audience.™
Re: Tabloid
I make a point of not watching TV news, as I almost always end up angry about something when I do, so prefer to get mine from the radio (probably due to the style of reporting, I dunno). This preference for radio is probably why, if I do choose to watch TV news, I'd much rather have a sensible presenter/reporter, talking about the subject, rather than a whizzy infographic. If BBC News goes infographic-heavy, it's basically losing its USP, at least in my eyes.
Not what it used to be
Can't comment on the television news as I don't watch it. However, it seems to me that the interweb outlet has gone from being a useful provider of news to some vacuous lifestyle magazine. Radio 4 news continues its long-term dumbing down too, and is now as likely to annoy as it is to inform.
Rant over.
Re: Not what it used to be
Dumbing down is a hallmark of the BBC these days. Why a public-service broadcaster needs to chase ratings is beyond me. Whilst there are occasional gems (I hate to say it, but I like the format of the blind auditions in "The Voice" - though once the selections have been made, it becomes just another talent show), I almost never watch BBC 1. BBC2 gets the occasional viewing (University Challenge, mainly, with recent time spent on W1A). The BBC station I view most (and that ain't a lot), is BBC4, with its programming about music in the mid-C20th. I don't watch any TV news channel regularly - too monotonous, making headlines out of total trivia (I think the most irritating was recently when some footballer was sacked from being manager (or captain) of some team (Manchester?), and that was the headline - was there really nothing more important than that in the country/world?). I do use the BBC News website most days - learning how to use it as a tool to find actual information is worth the time (except for technology - don't get me started on the utter shite spouted by those clowns!), and it leans I can avoid the AGW propaganda quite neatly.
Odd - I'm a supporter of the BBC, and would hate to see it lose its funding model, but you wouldn't be able to tell from my comments ...
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Amen. I was a keen Radio 3 fan, but then Classic FM panicked it and now it dumbs down to the point where i check to see if my radio dial has moved. No, this really is Radio 3.So now I put the headphones on and listen to various European classical-music stations and don't miss anything, as he really informative R3 discussion progammes are long gone
"Little wonder then that the middle class find the BBC a bargain - their prejudices and tastes are "super-served" by the corporation today, while their consumption is subsidised by the poorer socio-economic groups who get their news elsewhere" - and the explanation for this is bang on. I used to admire the BBC, then iit started to go sour, around about the time of the launch of iPlayer. I think it was the MS only platform (remember - iPhone started then, folks) and the cost to deliver that which suck in my gullet. I started to notice the online news become a little shallower in depth, which has become more apparent in the last few years. This 'New Media', which now is 'Digital Media' seems to be license to spout endless shallow content that you expect from Fox, but you would hope that Aunty would deride along the rest of us and stick to a well developed relay of the facts and decent analysis of the same.
What really saddens me, though, is the BBC Radio news. At one stage the Today program I admired, It seems that it also is starting to follow the trend of BBC News online. The obligatory 'find one person to interview about the subject and someone else who will just argue regardless if they can argue the point effectively' style of interviewing The regurgitating of news stories and pimping of non-news that seems to be Press releases half the time.
This will only get worse with the "BBC Twitter Push of '14". Oh Joy. Who, really, gives a crap if they twitter more? Just because a large proportion of the younger populace Tweet doesn't make it mandatory. They also do a lot of other things so what next? Live nights out and morning afters to engage with the yoof?
I'm sad.
None news aside, some still great content on the Radio. Though a little bit of danger of New Luvvies only in some cases mentioning no names oh go on then David Mitchell but not as bad as the news quiz. At least DM is rather funny. And factually accurate most of the time.
Plus the world service is still a great service.
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Yes, I agree, forget about twitter etc, and stop dumbing down what you have. People are not all stupid so why treat them so?
Also, a hint to the beeb, particularly the PM news team - I don't need a sound effect to accompany every other line of the news you are reading to me. I know what a police siren sounds like, so I don't need you to read the news over the sound of one, so I struggle to hear what you are actually saying, and I don't need a song to be played that "cleverly" contains one line that vaguely matches the story being discussed to keep being faded in over the story either.
Agree wholeheartedly with the interview/argue point, and in another hint to auntie - constant interruption and haranguing alternated with sounding incredulous is not being edgy, it is just rude. I'd rather listen to a dickhead make a dickhead of himself than have some vacuous presenter interrupting constantly to prevent the true extent of dickheadedness from being seen.
And while we are about it, let's have more saying things like "Last week Fred Bloggs died suddenly and..." instead of playing of a snippet of last weeks news when the announcer reads "Fred Bloggs has died suddenly today", fading it out, and then continuing. It is just plain annoying.
Sorry, rant over!
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I rarely listen to the radio these days - since Wogan quit the morning show I've really not had much interest (which says plenty about me, I suppose) but sometimes, just sometimes, I end up listening to the Jeremy Vine show and I always regret it. You can usually work out what the BBC's editorial line is on a subject by which of his guests he decides to argue with.
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The old Form over Content issue !!
Plagues lots of TV and Radio output
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"Plus the world service is still a great service"
Perhaps not universally known BBC WS is/was a window out to the world (funnily enough...) and used to be funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
It is/was remarkably high quality - e.g., IMHO, best election coverage in 2010, thoughtful and without ranty point scoring politicians shouting over each other.
Now it's funded out of the licence fee - I hope but don't hold out much hope that it will stay as good. Already there is increased programme sharing with R4
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Totally agree! Radio news, while better than TV, is going downhill. the PM programme has become a sort of really bad comedy show, and Today just doesn't go into any depth any more. I recently found a complete edition of Today from 1986 online, and the difference is like black and white - in-depth, serious reporting, authoritative without being condescending.
But if you think BBC radio news is bad, listen to NPR here in the US for any length of time and you'll be logging onto iPlayer faster than you can say knife: everything seems to be promped by a new book or article in the new York times or the Washington Post, nothing on its own merit. I think I'd take John Humphies' gruff handling of a useless politician any day!
Why do they call it a "trust"...
...when the people it is comprised of inspire the opposite emotion?
They should do the opposite.
Less video, smaller graphics, more real content on their own web site. Stop pimping the proprietary, privacy slurping, ad serving, 3rd party walled gardens of Twitter and Facebook, which are at best I suppose of some value if you don't have a major web site of your own.
Companies and Organisations promoting Twitter & Facebook are not bring traffic to themselves as much as simply helping Facebook and Twitter to make money.
Reith of course would have embraced every technology to promote the BBC, but Facebook and Twitter are neither promotional tools or technology, but Advertisement hoardings that are parasites on the Web. They add no value.
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I agree.
I just wanted to mention that the BBC aren't the only organisation to think that just introducing new technology will solve all their problems. I suspect that most of the companies we work for are making the same mistake..... if only we had Big Data all our problems would be solved....... if only we used the cloud........ out sourcing will hit the nail on the head (nail in the coffin more like).......
There seems to be a general unwillingness to actually look at what's causing the company's problem(s).
Obviously, as someone who works in IT, I'm not against new technology I'm just a little bored of all these "emperor's new clothes" attitudes.
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Was encouraging "answers on a postcard" part of a sinister plot to put money in the pocket of the Royal Mail?
Not challenging
The bbc has been regurgitating government statements and corporate PR releases both on TV and online, without challenge for years.
Unless they actually investigate and challenge these releases there is no point in the news. They should be challenging these organisations on this stuff.
They might also want to follow up on some of the corporate releases. For example BBC news stories (especially online) concerning Microsoft are simply PR statements straight from MS. They never challenge MS' assertions that the latest OS is the bees knees regardless of feedback from users or sales.
Because of this the bcc is a sort of government & corporate billboard. You only really get the news if you can read between the lines or follow up the story at some proper journalistic outlet.
Radio 4 at least attempts to dig behind some of the news stories & challenge some of the statements, however they need a few more presenters. Listening to John Humphries trying to challenge some tech story is painful indeed.
How to make news popular?
You're asking for news that's still basically about politics, just a bit different. But the other news outlets that aim to be popular don't do that. They go for celebrities, sport, bashing whatever group is out of favour and dissimilar from their audience, and inaccurate sensational stories about health and the weather. That seems to work pretty well. There doesn't seem to be much evidence that any sort of hard news can be very popular.
I don't think hard news has ever been popular with young people, apart from a few politics geeks. They're usually preoccupied with sorting out their own lives. That's just one of the reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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Have you seen the BBC News page recently? I can't believe you have. Most of the space is "Features", "Magazine", "Most Popular", and other dumbed-down stuff. What's "Most Popular" right now? The Return of the Dimpled Pint Glass.
One good thing - they block people in the UK from looking at bbc.com, because that's even more dumbed down.
Re: people in the UK from looking at bbc.com
Outside UK it's been impossible to see full UK or N.I. news any more. bbc.co.uk automatically loads bbc.com
I gave up on BBC videos ages ago as all are prefixed by un-skipable adverts. Except many links that are really video are not "flagged" with the icon they use for video content.
What is the difficulty with letting people choose? Also surely only some video and audio need to be geoblocked. It's an insult to anyone resident in UK on a business trip or holiday and a bit naff for British Citizens who for whatever reason can't be living in the UK.
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"Outside UK it's been impossible to see full UK or N.I. news any more. bbc.co.uk automatically loads bbc.com"
Try it with Javascript switched off. I can see bbc.co.uk fine here in Europe.
WTF they demand Flash for listening to the radio is a complete mystery. NO I am not going to buy an Internet aware radio just for that, as they suggest.
And I haven't yet seen an "infographic" that couldn't be better expressed as a paragraph.
News for those who are allowed to play with fonts and crayons but are yet to move beyond the picture book and animal sounds.
Good infographics can be really good additions to a story and I'm a fan of them in general. http://gapminder.org has some great examples.
Of course, like the currency cat, they can also be completely crap.
As far as I know most mobile devices do not easily support Flash content.
However thr BBC seems determined to ignore this.
Could this be one reason the under 25s largely ignore the BBC?
As for dumbing down, most news media these days seem to have realised that it is cheaper to surf Facebook and Twitter for trivia than employ investigative journalists.
Have you noticed how much news at online sites for newspapers and in print is a rehash of another newspaper's story, with a credit?
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Yeah, I keep getting 'you do not have the most up to date version of flash installed' message coming up (on the admittely rare occassion I try to watch a news excerpt, I prefer to read). I check only to find I have the exact version installed (Archlinux), but it thinks I don't.
Seriously, Yahoo have more detail in their news than bbc.co.uk (and unfortunately three times as much mindless nonsense).
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>>As far as I know most mobile devices do not easily support Flash content.
>>However thr BBC seems determined to ignore this.
Their live sport doesn't require Flash, and this is a welcome improvement. I think it's the same for coverage of music stuff e.g. festivals - I hadn't realised news wasn't the same,
Disappointed by the BBC recently
I don't watch much of the BBC news on the telly, but I've been really disappointed and frustrated by the BBC website recently.
A poster above mentioned that it was reading more like a sensationalist magazine and I think that really is the case. It's starting to look more like a cross between Buzzfeed and the Daily Mail. As I look at the top ten stories now - here are some of them
* The man with 42 hours to get home
* The return of the dimpled pint glass
* We are all monkeys
* Has wealth made Qatar happy?
Just lots and lots of puff pieces really. Plus the BBC's inability to mention a news story without padding half of it with what someone or other said on Twitter is just frustrating.
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Re: Disappointed by the BBC recently
Isn't the popular now piece auto-generated by what people click on? Which in itself is targeted by twitter campaigns to push random items up the list?
If you look at the BBC front page there is;
Sacking over poor elderly home care
Stop and search powers to be reviewed
Farage will not stand in by-election
Oklahoma inmate dies after 'botched' lethal injection
You pick you choose, its not all fluffy stuff.
Personally I watch Ch4 news as its more indepth.
Re: Disappointed by the BBC recently
>As I look at the top ten stories now
You've missed the point. Those are the stories that people want to read (most). There's plenty more to choose from.
personal data leaks
Every time a BBC presenter encourages/extols the use of "social media" by its listeners/viewers, there should be an accompanying data health warning. The Beeb is constantly "advertising" Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. alongside reports of identity fraud, cyber-bullying, and so forth. Its like promoting "sports drinks" alongside healthy living and obesity/diabetes warning programmes.
All style no substance
The BBC used to be a place where the researched things thoroughly. The great shows like the Burke Special, Horizon (before it was dumbed down), tomorrows world (I know it could be crap at times)...etc
Now what they put out on horizon would have taken up 5 minutes 20 years ago, the amount of recaps, pre-caps...etc
The news is based on reading an article on wikipedia half the time and when they are not doing that they are placing articles in the news to subconsciously suggest things about the next article, while sweeping their own dirty laundry under the carpet :(
In the past I've had to complain numerous times about blatant inaccuracies and it is only after you complain about the initial reply that they take it seriously. They should rename it the ministry of misinformation :(
My kids don't watch it because they have brains and 90% of the current output is either written for the in-crowd by the in-crowd or to brainwash the masses with Eastenders :(
Mr Grade (the one who cancelled Dr Who...etc) has a lot to answer for.
The BBC used to be great for its output, whereas now it is pretty on the eyes but doesn't make your brain do any work, that's why they don't attract the young I only watch out of habit, but when my brain engages i change channel or put on some music (If you have cable or satellite go and watch PBS some great documentaries).
ignored because the preoccupations of the BBC
Yes as well as the excellent examples they are also obsessed with DAB, Facebook, Twitter and especially promotion of LBGT in as many programs as possible.
I actually support Reith's idea of giving people what they should get and not just what they think they want (there is ITV for that) but BBC today has a very very narrow viewpoint. The replies to criticism that does make to air on Feedback (the web site is strangely limited despite comments enabled on some articles) are extremely self serving and patronising.
Still have you watched / listened / read :
Irish State Broadcaster RTE
Italian Media
US TV/Radio
German TV
Russia Today
Even with the terrible short comings of BBC they are still better.
Re: ignored because the preoccupations of the BBC
News on German public TV isn't too bad to be honest and it get's very local: from 19:00 to 20:15 I have regional, local and national news. I know my mum would love the 30 minutes given over to local news.
Channel 4 News is still a good attempt and informing and educating. Yes, the presenters still have obligatory Twitter handles but the fluff stops there.
No, NO, NO!
I'm sick to death of going to the "News" sites to see crap like.
#Breaking news in @London, Today #InLondon a #tubestrike has occurred. @TFL say #theywanttoreach an agreement.
Al-Jazeera is the place to go if you still want proper news.
W1A is a documentary
I listen to the World Service by preference as I find Radio 4 too London-focused; it used to be news bulletins with selections from BBC Radio features, but the features have been cut and the extra 'news' is full of opinions/feelings.
No news is good news
When something momentous happens: some fool starts a war, the Martians land, a plane flies into a building then the whole country thinks "Hmmm, I should find out more about that" and accesses a news service - for big events and the BBC still seems to be the source of choice.
However, we live in an era where there aren't any wars (at least, wars in any timezone that are likely to cause us to flee our homes), the Martians have seen our TV programming and decided to stay away and there aren't that many crazies in control of aircraft. Under those circumstances, where most of the events that will actually have a material affect on most people are either political (new laws) or economic (no money) - both of which are abstract, complicated and out of our control, is it any surprise that most people don't actually care? It's not like the (good old) cold-war days, when the news programmes could dangle the threat of nuclear annihilation as a carrot to watch, and "big up" the fact that some foreign leader hadn't been seen in public and the new guy might press the button.
So what do the news people fill all these empty hours, on channels too numerous to mention, with? Stories about minor celebrities and who they snog, marry or avoid. Lurid, voyeuristic footage of suffering in far away countries and the random doings of sports "personalities" who can't string together a coherent sentence to explain themselves - if you know what I mean (harry).
In short, we have news broadcasts coming out of our ears, 24 hour rolling news channels that have 15 minutes of stories on a loop (and that hardly ever change at weekends as the news staff aren't working - but when most people would have the time to watch) for most of the day - and most of the night, too. Channels that are so desperate to cheaply fill their air-time and website space that they have descended into trivia and celebrity instead of going for depth and analysis. And using the televised, in-your-face, suffering of genuine victims, used merely to attract viewers: sitting on their couches shoving crisps down their necks, as people watch their houses being destroyed.
It is any wonder that most right-thinking people reject this form of "news" and only care about whether it will rain today, or if there are traffic jams on their way in to work? Having bigger or flashier graphics and tweets won't make any difference here, guys. The basic problem is one of quality and relevance.
Re: No news is good news
Quite so. I call this "the curse of bandwidth".
employee benefits
Since I left they dumbed down the pension and redundancy terms, I didn't realise that they gave out benefits like private health and dentist, I thought it was only through approved tax dodging salary sacrifice, SSSI the employee is paying just gets it tax free.
Re: employee benefits
"* Perhaps because for a lucky few, they can buy their way out of such a fate. The BBC's generic recruitment page - here - includes dental insurance, critical illness insurance and private medical insurance amongst the perks. Just sayin'."
Hidden agenda maybe?? If you read the page it states under *VOLUNTARY BENEFITS*;
We also offer other optional benefits that can be paid through *net pay deductions.*
So its opt-in and paid for by the employee after tax and the employee is then additionally taxed benefit in kind by the government. (1) Hardly a free lunch but what I would expect from any large corporation (like FTSE 100 companies) that can cut deals with big health providers. You know the bit about trying to be nice to your employees, investors in people, all that stuff.
1) It's more annoying that the tax man feels everything in life is a perk and should be taxed, hot food the peasant class should eat food cold, Energy saving materials pah freeze you filth....
Reform or die
Microsoft seems to have learned its lessons, and is changing. When will the Beeb?
I used to support the TV licence, now I resent it.
Re: Reform or die
"I used to support the TV licence, now I resent it."
Me too.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson, 1779
BBC Stop just Stop!
Stop regurgitating other people news stories and make your own
Stop taking the side of a particular party and report the news as is
Stop pretending all your audience are upper to middle class
Stop being so polite during interviews we want the hard truth not some tribal whimpering pandering
Stop pretending its your money your spending and not the license payers
Stop having an upper class Eton/Cambridge attitude to everyone else
Populism and the Licence
My Dad worked for the BBC. He would from time to time tell us that the BBC felt it had to keep a respectable audience share - 30% to 40% - because it was paid for by the universal licence. So it would not, for example, tailor itself to the 5% who are worthy of a university education.
However, they are failing in their intended aims. Their liberal metropolitan attitudes are alien to about 95% of people.Change that, and you then ask why not leave the resulting type of programmes to commercial TV.
Indeed, in today's world, why have a BBC?
Re: Populism and the Licence
Why have public service broadcasting? Because it is the only place you can really try hard to have something that is independent of both government and commercial interests.
Their liberal metropolitan attitudes are alien to about 95% of people.
I doubt that very much. It's probably true to say that not all of their attitudes are shared by a majority of the population. But that is actually fine if there is space for other reasonably held views - it's a mistake to think that giving equal time to everyone's point of view is balanced. Focussing more on professional journalism and less on fluff would automatically redress the balance.
Re: Populism and the Licence
> audience share - 30% to 40% - because it was paid for by the universal licence
The logic is inescapable: what right does an organisation have to require a payment, if it provides nothing in return?
However, the idea that the BBC should cater for the masses falls into the "give a man a fish ... " category. If all it does is make itself accessible by adhering to the same standards of taste, intelligence and popular, faddish programme content as the commercial channels (and scheduling them head-to-head, then calling it "choice") then it's valid to ask: why have it at all, if it doesn't provide anything different or apply pressure to raise the overall standard?
For most people (well, most people here at least) the BBC has two unique properties: Dr. Who and no advertisements. Oh: and the silly notion that it's "free", just like the health service isn't. Given that the vast majority don't watch the programmes that have otherwise been tagged as "upper class" and "elitist", maybe the time has come to dump the licence fee and the ITV-esque (matron! he's using complicated words again) channels and simply have BBC2 & Radio 4 paid for by and only accessible to, the 40% tax-payers or those with a masters degree?
Or is it a case of: you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
Re: Populism and the Licence
The main problem with the BBC news output is that it is basically The Guardian TV. When I worked there a large proportion of their external recruitment was done using adverts in the Guardian media section on Mondays, so it is hardly surprising that if you recruit using a certain newspaper that you end up with a disproportionate number of their readers among your workforce.
Re: Populism and the Licence
Is that what you think a university education is - a reward for being 'clever'?
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It is time to ask some questions about why journalists in Burma continue to face arbitrary arrests for attempting to do their jobs.
The cancellation of by-elections slated for later this year is an ominous sign from an election commission chairman whose independence was already suspect.
By pursuing national causes ranging from land rights to ethnic reconciliation, Burma's university student unions have lost sight of their primary purpose: ensuring students' rights.
Well into the fourth year of Myanmar's reforms, a major question remains: Can the country develop its economy on an egalitarian basis?
After decades of armed conflict, government and ethnic Karenni medics team up to provide health care to impoverished communities in eastern Burma.
Universities seem to be systematically discouraging women from pursuing many leadership roles, and it's a great loss for our country's overall development.
The real lessons from the census were the blithe indifference by UNFPA and the Burmese government to the potential for violence the census could spark.
Myanmar will need the cooperation of its cronies if the country is to overcome the so-called "resource curse" and reduce economic inequality.
The government and Myanmar's ethnic armed rebel groups will both need to make sacrifices if the country is to achieve a lasting peace.
An electoral system of proportional representation for Myanmar is being wrongly vilified by some political stakeholders who would benefit from its implementation.
For more than 50 years, Myanmar's generals have mistakenly believed that only with the military in charge could the country be stable.
Myanmar is a market where opportunity lurks behind every challenge, a lesson telecommunications players would do well to heed as the country's mobile revolution unfolds.
Friday's release of 91 children and young people by the Myanmar military is a welcome step, but child recruitment remains ongoing and persistent.
Ethnically aligned political parties say proposals to change the country's electoral system are not in their best interest.
President Thein Sein's government can and must act to stop the acts of sexual violence committed by Tatmadaw soldiers in Burma's ethnic states.
Washington should be posing the same tough questions that Burmese journalists now sentenced to 10 years in prison for their reporting have dared to ask.


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According to a report, Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez will get a hearing Monday for his appeal of a three-game suspension stemming from an April 20 brawl in Pittsburgh.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Todd Rosiak reported the story Friday.
"Last night I got a text message from my agent and I think it's going to be [May 5]," Gomez said. "We're going to know [May 5]. I think I'm going to have a phone call and they're going to tell me what they're going to do."
The Brewers will be back in Milwaukee on Monday to play the Arizona Diamondbacks and outfielder Logan Schafer is expected to be activated from the 15-day disabled list on Saturday, meaning the Crew would have a center fielder for however long Gomez's suspension will be.
Just because it's fun, here's the incident from April 20:
Martin Maldonado has already served his five-game suspension he received for punching Pittsburgh's Travis Snider during the melee.
Gomez continues to be unrepentant for his role in the skirmish, but acknowledges responsibility for what happened.
"I'm not sorry, but we're responsible for the stuff that we do and we have to move forward," Gomez said. "We still have a long way to go. I feel upset because some people say I'm a bad guy when I'm not."
Gomez, who won his first Gold Glove and earned his first All-Star nod last season, is hitting .294/.356/.571 in 29 games and 132 plate appearances this season, with eight doubles, two triples, seven homers, 17 RBI and four stolen bases. He's struck out 35 times.


text: Sendoff September 3, 2012 Issue Right-Hand Man By Rebecca Mead Table of Contents Stu Loeser Credit Tom Bachtell Stu Loeser, who was, until last week, Mayor Bloomberg's press secretary, has for several years been an indispensable part of this administration's apparatus. It was Loeser who, back in 2005, when he was working on the Mayor's reëlection campaign, described Bloomberg's courting of wealthy Democrats as part of an attempt to reach "New Yorkers of all stripes and backgrounds." It was Loeser who covered for the Mayor after it came out that he spent Christmas, 2010, in Bermuda while a blizzard was barrelling down on New York. ("I decline to comment on the Mayor's private schedule, personal life, or personal property," Loeser said.) And it was to Loeser that the Mayor deferred when at a loss for words. "I'd love to tell you that I'm au courant on the proposal to ban illegal tinted windows, but I'm not," Bloomberg said a few years ago. "However, I can promise you Stu Loeser will get back to you with a short, pithy, insightful statement about that." Even so, when Loeser announced in July that he would be leaving to start his own consulting company, the Mayor was unsentimental. "Stu made a big difference in this city," Bloomberg told reporters. "But, you know, the cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people." Last week, a going-away party was held for Loeser at One Mile House, a bar on the Lower East Side. The guest of honor raised a beer to his lips and ruminated on his swift consignment to history. "My desk is being removed now, the day of the party," he said. "That's kind of cold." Loeser, who is thirty-eight, is bespectacled and baby-faced, and is given to wearing a fedora, as if he were appearing in a high-school production of "The Front Page." There had been much to marvel at in his years at Bloomberg's side, he said. "I was born on Andrews Air Force Base and lived there until I was four, and so I remember the hospital I was born in," he recalled. "You know how they say everything from your childhood looks smaller when you go back to it? Well, when you fly over the hospital you were born in, in your boss's jet, every three weeks, it really is smaller than you remember." Friends, colleagues, and professional adversaries had filled the bar. "Every reporter loves him, though we've all been berated and gone home crying because of him," Annie Karni, a reporter at the Post, said. Ray Kelly, the Police Commissioner, had dropped by. "He protects the principal," Kelly said. "He does his job extremely well." Andrew Brent, a former deputy press secretary for Bloomberg, remembered how Loeser had responded when, during the swine-flu epidemic, Vice-President Biden told a television interviewer that he would advise members of his family against riding the subway. "I see this, and I'm cringing," Brent said. "Meanwhile, Stu is calling every single television station and telling them the Mayor is going to take the subway to City Hall that morning." (Less heroically, Loeser also handled the revelation that Bloomberg, who often rides the subway to work, is driven to the subway stop in his official S.U.V., unlike the average rider. "Who is the average Manhattan subwaygoer? I don't think it's an answerable question," Loeser said.) The Mayor stopped by the gathering to pay brusque tribute to Loeser. "Stu got the seven-year itch a little early," Bloomberg said. "I did try to spice things up for him. But he said, 'It's not you. It's me.' " The Mayor thanked Loeser for always giving his unvarnished opinion—"Sometimes a little varnish would have been O.K.," he added—and went on, "When Stu talked about leaving and starting his own company, I had two thoughts. One, I didn't want him to go, and, two, I didn't think that I'd have a year of dicking around to put up with, listening to him finally pull the plug." The Mayor read an official proclamation citing the dedication of Loeser, who "lived and breathed his job and worked tirelessly day and night, 24/6." (Loeser observes the Sabbath.) "As you know, I worked hard to write this proclamation," the Mayor said, adding, "Who wrote this shit?" In his final farewell, Bloomberg reminisced about a moment of intimacy after a press conference. "I'm feeling good—I got the usual bullshit questions, I didn't screw up, I'm feeling no pain," the Mayor recalled. "I get into the car. Stu turns to me and starts screaming at me, 'You stupid—,' 'You no good—,' and you could see the two detectives up front look at each other. They had never seen anybody, particularly the Mayor, being treated this way. What did I do wrong? I didn't screw up. 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" Why I love to give you flowers on a Wednesday, 12 dozen roses at your door.
Or even light some candles when you come over for dinner, I wouldn't mind to light a billion more.
Or how I like to wake up and see you with no make up, I'd still give you a ring the way you are.
Or stay up on the phone late at night when you're alone, looking out the window gazing up at stars.
So if you're wondering why I do the things that I do, honestly I don't know what to say.
All these questions and answers, I just like to have her, every moment every single day. "
— Jeff Bernat


text: 5 August 2012 Soy & Szechuan Pepper Tofu 500g (1lb) firm organic tofu 1 lemon, juice 2 tsp soy sauce 3 tsp Szechuan pepper corns, freshly ground ½ tsp white pepper ¼ tsp sea salt flakes ½ cup rice crumbs (we used Orgran brand All Purpose Rice Crumbs) 1 tsp corn flour (cornstarch) rice bran or peanut oil for deep frying Wasabi Pea Puree 2½ cup peas (fresh or frozen) ½ cup water 1-1½ tsp wasabi (to taste) Salad Plate 2 cups baby Asian greens (or any small crisp lettuce leaves) 1 carrot, peeled and sliced into thin rounds 1 Lebanese cucumber, sliced into thin rounds 1 cup bean sprouts 1 cup fresh coriander (cilantro) roughly torn 1-2 red chillies, deseeded and thinly sliced ½ lemon, juice 2 tsp sesame oil To prepare the tofu slice it into approximately 1cm (1/4 inch) x 2cm (3/4 inch) strips and toss with the lemon juice and soy sauce in a shallow bowl. Allow to sit while you prepare the remainder of the dish. Prepare the wasabi pea puree by adding the peas and water to a frying pan. Allow the peas to gently simmer over a low heat for 5 minutes until tender and bright green. Remove from the heat and using a fork or stick blender puree the peas until smooth adding the wasabi to taste. Set aside and keep warm. To make the salad plate toss all the ingredients together with the lemon juice and sesame oil, arrange on small separate plates per person or on one large plate for the centre of the table. Prepare the rice crumbs by combing well with the Szechuan pepper, white pepper and salt flakes. Remove the tofu from the lemon juice and soy (reserving this) and pat dry with absorbent paper. Combine the corn flour (cornstarch) with the reserved lemon juice and soy, whisking until smooth. In a medium sized deep saucepan heat at least 15cm (6 inch) of oil over a medium heat until the surface begins to shimmer. To deep fry the tofu working with one piece at a time dunk it into the cornflour mixture and then into the rice crumbs pressing and patting the crumbs to coat the tofu evenly. In small batches deep fry the crumbed tofu for 1 minute until it is crisp and golden, remove from the oil and drain on absorbent paper. Fry only a few pieces of the crumbed tofu at a time to avoid over crowding the oil and to allow the tofu to cook quickly. Serve the crumbed tofu sprinkled with a little extra salt flakes and few cracks of pepper and wedges of lemon. Accompany with the wasabi pea puree and crunchy side salad for a completely delicious snack or light vegetarian meal. source


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Lost for three years and declared dead by her husband, a doctor comes home just in time to discover that he is no longer the man she married, and that he has just married someone else. Linda Randall Wisdom tells a story where everyone has something to hide and readers will enjoy unravelling the secrets in MR. & MRS....& MRS. (3).
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