Wednesday - February 09, 2011

there’s just too damn many white,middle class ppl enjoying themselves. lets put a stop to that

This won’t mean anything to our American reads. Won’t even mean a thing to many in Europe either. But it bothers the heck outta me.

Why?  Because the jerk that wants to upset the applecart is talking about me and I don’t like it. Well, not me specifically but ppl here in the South and Southeast of the country.  We’re too white and too middle class for his likes and we listen to BBC Radio 4, and many minorities don’t. And, there are not enough minorities as ‘presenters’ on BBC 4.  Presenters is what Brit speak for announcers.  Had I worked here in radio instead of America, I’d have been a presenter instead of a DJ.

I’ll grant ya that the BBC is often biased to the left a bit. But as an ex radio guy and a listener, I can say honestly that even with all the stuff they broadcast that I do not care for, over all they have better radio programing here.  No point in going into reasons for that, it’s just an honest fact.  And frankly, American lifestyle just isn’t conducive to the same kind of listening and programing as here.

There have been times I’ve gone to bed with eyes so tired I couldn’t read, as is my habit. So I turn on BBC4 and listen to some books dramatized. For example, not long ago it was the Mark Twain biography and recently I heard a book read about Issac Newton. I heard things about him I never heard of before and it got me to buy the book from Amazon. And it isn’t the first time I’ve done that.  Then too there are public interest panel shows, like tonight’s Moral Maze at 8pm. There history and there’s religion and overall just a lot on offer. BUT ... maybe not for teens and 20’s.  I guess you could say it’s ... well .... middle class.
Yeah. Put a stop to that before it spreads.

So, this is really upsetting and I want you to see the sort of distorted mindset of some of these brain dead socialist schmucks.
And btw ... this is not the first time we have heard that there’s too much for the white, middle aged and middle class to enjoy.  A few years ago it was a national park so described. 

There is something called the BBC Trust and I guess they oversee that things are politically correct. I think anyway.

What does the BBC think of Radio 4’s 10m loyal listeners? Too many are white, Southern and elderly
By LIZ THOMAS

You might assume that being declared a ‘national treasure’ and boasting 10million listeners a week means Radio 4 is doing ­everything right.

Yet the station’s output is still not good enough for the BBC Trust.

In a performance review, it has ruled Radio 4 needs more northern presenters, a younger audience and to improve its appeal to ethnic minorities.

Stalwarts: The Today programme’s John Humphrys and Desert Island Discs host Kirsty Young attract thousands of listeners to Radio 4, but the BBC Trust says the BBC Trust says the station should appeal to a younger, more diverse audience

the BBC Trust says the station should appeal to a younger, more diverse audience

But the verdict prompted a fury yesterday from listeners, broadcasters and ­politicians, who branded the Trust’s ­findings ‘ludicrous’ and ‘patronising’.

Today presenter John Humphrys said: ‘Radio 4 is not too white, too middle class or too old. You would have to be daft not to think about how to bring in the next generation of audiences, but it should be done through quality.

‘Our listeners come to us as they mature, but also because of the content. If I am doing an interview I don’t think about how to make it appeal to a 16-year-old or a 95-year-old – I think about doing the best job.’

I am not a huge fan of Mr. Humphrys. He interrupts the ppl he interviews too often, he asks a question which sometimes takes three minutes or more and before the person he is asking it of can answer, he’s in again with his own answer.

The BBC Trust - the corporation’s governing body - is estimated to have spent £10,000 on a consultation with 16,795 licence fee ­payers on the quality, distinctiveness and value for money of Radios 4, 3 and digital station 7, which is to be rebranded Radio 4 Extra.

The report, by BBC trustee David Liddiment, acknowledged Radio 4 sets ‘a high standard for speech radio’ and is seen by many as a ‘national treasure’ – but claimed it still needed to change.

The station should find ‘ways to build loyalty amongst younger, lighter listeners’, and needs to be promoted ‘among minority ethnic opinion formers through special content and marketing events’.

But his verdict prompted wide-ranging anger. Former MP Ann Widdecombe said: ‘Radio 4 is ­probably the only thing that caters for middle-class, middle-aged audiences. There is precious little for us on television.’

SOURCE of VEXATION

Oh no! Don’t let the dumb-down brigade ruin Radio 4. It’s the last bastion of civilised, aspirational broadcasting
By QUENTIN LETTS

The remarks came from David Liddiment, a paid-up member of the liberal media elite while discussing a BBC Trust report which has passed lofty judgment on Radio 4’s performance.

There was grudging admission that the station, which has ten million listeners a week, delivers good value for money and is greatly loved. But Mr Liddiment was not content. His sort rarely are.

He insisted that Radio 4 needed to change its ‘tone of voice’. As jolly hockey sticks interviewer Sarah ­Montague put it, summarising his complaint: ‘So, we’re white, getting on a bit, living in the South of England.’

At this point I’m afraid my inner ­rubber band snapped and I shouted at the radio: ‘What’s wrong with that?’

Radio 4 sets out to talk to an educated elite, and if a lot of them happen to be white, middle-aged people who live south of Manchester and happen not to speak like Sir Jimmy Savile, well, so be it. What will Mr Liddiment be demanding next? That those listeners move house to the Pennines?

Such finger-wagging is depressing for two reasons. First, it shows that the militant egalitarianism of the Labour years — the cause of so much bog-­standardisation and so much ­ossification of opportunity — has not yet been defeated. Second, it is an example of officialdom’s genius for trying to fix something that is not broken.

why should Mr Liddiment & Co want to alter it?

Now we come to the nub of the matter. The BBC Trust’s report emphasises the Corporation’s alleged duty to promote ‘diversity’ and ‘the delivery of this purpose’.

I don’t know about you, but I find the use of that word ‘purpose’ slightly sinister. Why should the BBC be an agent of ‘diversity’? Is that properly any of its business? Yet this is what drives the Liddiments of this world, as created by their past ­ masters in New Labour.

It is a creed which is irrevocably Left-wing, being driven by an obsession with otherness, with minorities and the margins at the expense of cultural unity.

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Posted by peiper     on 02/09/2011 at 11:40 AM   
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