More BBC hatred...but some cheer

[JRM]

So this morning it's all doom and gloom on their website saying that the RPI is at zero for the first time since the 60's (which, of course, caused the world to collapse) - as if no one has noticed that mortgages are at an all time low!

By this afternoon it's all OK again because the CPI is up and everything is costing us more!! Why can't they just give a balanced report in the first place? - they have no need to sell their web site with provocative headlines

Anyway, more annoyance as this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7960887.stm

gets hidden away in the small print of the business section - odd when the mortgage approval reduction was headline news

How many more people need to moan about this stupid sensationalist organisation before they start to listen?

[Invisible man]

I've stopped listening to the news now as I used to arrive at work 'pre depressed' I made the mistake of watching that BBC thing on Pensions last night, some poor bd who spent his entire life making nuts and bolts on a lathe......(I mean FFS!!) and saved for a nice big pension was told, by a delighted journalist, that he would need to work till he was 111 and save a further paltry £85,000 to be able to heat his flat once retired.
Happy days.....

[NoelWatson]

JRM said:

So this morning it's all doom and gloom on their website saying that the RPI is at zero for the first time since the 60's (which, of course, caused the world to collapse) - as if no one has noticed that mortgages are at an all time low!

By this afternoon it's all OK again because the CPI is up and everything is costing us more!! Why can't they just give a balanced report in the first place? - they have no need to sell their web site with provocative headlines

Anyway, more annoyance as this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7960887.stm

gets hidden away in the small print of the business section - odd when the mortgage approval reduction was headline news

How many more people need to moan about this stupid sensationalist organisation before they start to listen?

I think BOE approvals get more coverage than BBA

[ben_reza]

if you look hard enough you can find a bbc story to prove/disprove pretty much anything.

Granted- not usually on the same day tho....

[AlexKP]

Invisible man said:

I've stopped listening to the news now as I used to arrive at work 'pre depressed' I made the mistake of watching that BBC thing on Pensions last night, some poor bd who spent his entire life making nuts and bolts on a lathe......(I mean FFS!!) and saved for a nice big pension was told, by a delighted journalist, that he would need to work till he was 111 and save a further paltry £85,000 to be able to heat his flat once retired.
Happy days.....

Jeeez.... the politicians and bankers should be shot for this. It really is a total failure to protect or even consider the welfare of the vast majority of taxpayers.

Still, at least Sir Fred Goodwin is going to be immensely comfortable and able to afford his heating...

I know what you mean about arriving at work "pre-depressed" - a very good way of putting it.

[JRM]

I got post-depressed last night reading about the couple with a 1p mortgage

Edited by JRM on Tuesday 24th March 14:26

[Spiritual_Beggar]

I still maintain that a big reason for all these problems is the media.

If they would stopped raping the confidense from everyone with their insesant ramblings of 'The End is Nigh' or 'The sky is falling', then maybe things would actually start to pick up as people would start to spend again.

[AlexKP]

Spiritual_Beggar said:

I still maintain that a big reason for all these problems is the media.

If they would stopped raping the confidense from everyone with their insesant ramblings of 'The End is Nigh' or 'The sky is falling', then maybe things would actually start to pick up as people would start to spend again.

I think you are right in part, but does the media shape society or reflect it?

That is the old question, and the answer is a bit of both...

[anonymous-user]

Spiritual_Beggar said:

I still maintain that a big reason for all these problems is the media.

If they would stopped raping the confidense from everyone with their insesant ramblings of 'The End is Nigh' or 'The sky is falling', then maybe things would actually start to pick up as people would start to spend again.

Very true. But alas, this is the way of the world today.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Good point.

I don't think they necessarily cause the problems, but they do have a habit of exagerating and prolonging them.

Such is the nature of the industry I suppose. But what is possibly even more annoying is the fact that we constantly buy into their crap no matter how bad the stink!

[JRM]

I don't buy papers any more, save for the odd Sunday Torygraph