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What a bunch of coonts, take all the horse racing off them.
I begrudge paying every penny of my licence fee to the scum.
Totally agree.
Hate to think how they will report the Grand National, particularly if there are any further unfortunate fatalities.
The BBC is the root of so many wrongs in this country, I don’t watch tv, don’t need a license. Wouldn’t pay a penny to those parasites
I thought it was more about Scots and Garde dying? I think that has unfortunately marred day one, extremely upsetting. What a terrible race the CC is….
I haven’t seen it, what actually have they reported/broadcast?
A clueless sports reporter called Joe Wilson (anyone know the gimp?) report from Cheltenham at the end of the day consisted of nearly all old ground about the whip issue, jockeys wanting to go on strike if they can’t whip them more than 8 times, the welfare of the horse etc and of course highlighting the one jockey to fall foul of the whip rules today at Cheltenham.
10’o’clock news headlines said the joy and sadness of Cheltenham so presumably they will be concentrating on the 3 deaths in this report.
Just read that Educated Evans sadly died too, ground wasn’t right for him, shouldn’t have run….RIP
Just saw the 10 o’clock news report which naturally focused on the death of the three horses today – shots of the green screens up etc.
I wouldn’t mind as much if the BBC actually paid any attention to racing at any other time, but they never do. Or if they were fair and balanced in their reporting. They’re only interested with highlighting the negative aspects of racing and they seem to relish it. I’m sure they’ve made the animal rights lobby happy anyway.
(I’m in a bad mood so am not focused on putting forward a more constructive argument right now…I just got very wound up by what was on the news, because the average person watching that would have no real clue about racing).
To say that they ‘relish it’ is a bit harsh I think!
Let’s face it, to the lay audience the main news to come out today wasn’t the fantastic performance of SS or Hunt Ball, but the news that three horses had died. And since the deaths in the GN, the subject of horse welfare, which has been supplemented by the whip debate, is the primary focus of National news as far as horse racing is concerned. Not to mention the corruption issues as well. I’m afraid this is the stigma associated with the sport, and I don’t think the managing of the ground today, which exacerbated the risk involved with the CC event also, helped matters.
I urge the ground staff to adequately water the course ASAP with forecast dry conditions this week to mitigate the risk of injury to horses, and for connections to withdraw any horse who blatantly don’t appreciate faster ground.
The BBC is the root of so many wrongs in this country, I don’t watch tv, don’t need a license. Wouldn’t pay a penny to those parasites
Be thankful for the BBC, without them every TV network would be owned by a corporate conglomerate with its own obvious bias. Murdoch has been trying to start up Fox News UK, so beware.
That may be true in the US, but for the most part the terrestrial UK channels are pretty objective in what they report. Sky/cable on the other hand……!
The BBC is the root of so many wrongs in this country, I don’t watch tv, don’t need a license. Wouldn’t pay a penny to those parasites
Be thankful for the BBC, without them every TV network would be owned by a corporate conglomerate with its own obvious bias. Murdoch has been trying to start up Fox News UK, so beware.
Unfortunately some people in the UK spent years in education and still read the Daily Mail.
Get real – what news organisation leads with "Good news, the fav won the Arkle" ?
We’ve got a welfare issue – you can’t expect objective news organisations to ignore that.
The BBC is the root of so many wrongs in this country, I don’t watch tv, don’t need a license. Wouldn’t pay a penny to those parasites
Be thankful for the BBC, without them every TV network would be owned by a corporate conglomerate with its own obvious bias. Murdoch has been trying to start up Fox News UK, so beware.
A rather specious view that needs correction:
The BBC is also corporation; it so happens that it is a state corporation paid for by the public on pain of legal action. You have no choice in the matter whereas with Murdoch you just take your choice. The BBC long ago abandoned any pretence of being disinterested/unbiased in matters of politics and culture and the crypto-Marxists* and left-liberals who dominate its management structure have pushed the Left’s orthodoxy in more or less all programmes. They have publicly admitted it. They will be stirring up the whip furore until the grand national. This is partly the corporations default sympathy with minority politics (in this case animal rights fascists) and partly from a wider distrust and dislike of ‘the sport of kings’ ie the Queen likes it so it must be ‘elitist’ and ‘tory’ and so on.
*So called by none other than Jeremy Paxman
The BBC is the root of so many wrongs in this country, I don’t watch tv, don’t need a license. Wouldn’t pay a penny to those parasites
Be thankful for the BBC, without them every TV network would be owned by a corporate conglomerate with its own obvious bias. Murdoch has been trying to start up Fox News UK, so beware.
A rather specious view that needs correction:
The BBC is also corporation; it so happens that it is a state corporation paid for by the public on pain of legal action. You have no choice in the matter whereas with Murdoch you just take your choice. The BBC long ago abandoned any pretence of being disinterested/unbiased in matters of politics and culture and the crypto-Marxists* and left-liberals who dominate its management structure have pushed the Left’s orthodoxy in more or less all programmes. They have publicly admitted it. They will be stirring up the whip furore until the grand national. This is partly the corporations default sympathy with minority politics (in this case animal rights fascists) and partly from a wider distrust and dislike of ‘the sport of kings’ ie the Queen likes it so it must be ‘elitist’ and ‘tory’ and so on.
*So called by none other than Jeremy Paxman
You lost me at "crypto-Marxists"You’re not missing out on anything Miss Woodford. It’s nothing more than a transparent tactic employed by the right to use pseudo intellectualisms to mask the fact that their arguments typically reek of a severe inferiority complex.
I agree with you that this country’s media landscape would be an awful lot worse if it was monopolized by commercial broadcasters.
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Unfortunately some people in the UK spent years in education and still read the Daily Mail.
I thought it was GROLIES* who parroted BBC teachings of the "correct" position to adopt on issues like racing fatalities?
(*Guardian Readers Of Limited Intelligence In Ethnic Skirts – either sex)
Is the Daily Mail then no longer one of the stronger newspaper supporters of racing ?
You lost me at "crypto-Marxists"
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