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It’s repeated next Saturday morning at 01.45 am, although if you wait till then, you will probably have read everything there is to say about the program on the forum
I strongly suspect the program will be all froth and no substance aimed at sensationalism for the non-racing viewer.
More worryingly I fear any official response will be weak and woolly.
But let’s not pre-judge too much. I will be watching the program with some non-racing people so it will be interesting to see how they react.
It will be very entertaining as they have obtained tapes from the Police or CPS of the probe evidence that was used during the recent trial. These probes were used to listen in on Miles Rodgers telephone calls so most of the time you are hearing only one side of the conversation but from timings and telephone records you know what phone is calling him.
In reality it will be a re trial by television in 60 minutes.I strongly suspect the program will be all froth and no substance aimed at sensationalism for the non-racing viewer.
Ditto.
These investigation programs are masters at it, especially when they go into area’s the general public are none too familiar with. Dispatches hatchet job on Ryanair comes to mind
The BBC’s News and Current Affairs programmes were once the envy of the world for their objective and fair-minded approach. Sadly these days their news programmes are nothing more than a ‘gossip shop’, and current affairs programmes seem to have gone the same way.
I hope that in this instance that I’m wrong, but I doubt it.
Rob
Have to agree with you, Rob.
Panorama used to give a responsible and objective view of events, now it seems to employ the same tactics as the worst tabloids.
Colin
Have to agree with you, Rob.
Panorama used to give a responsible and objective view of events, now it seems to employ the same tactics as the worst tabloids.
Colin
Sadly I also am of this opinion.
Perhaps I should have places a bet on Betfair – even more froth than I expected.
Nothing new for those who know anything about racing – shock, horror sensationalism for those who are not followers of teh sport.
To be honest it wasn’t even that well presented – if it was intended as a hatchet job then it could have been done much better. Tabloid television.
To almost anyone watching that, they would have to think that there is a bent element in racing. It didn’t look good did it?
Perhaps I should have places a bet on Betfair – even more froth than I expected.
Nothing new for those who know anything about racing – shock, horror sensationalism for those who are not followers of teh sport.
To be honest it wasn’t even that well presented – if it was intended as a hatchet job then it could have been done much better. Tabloid television.
I disagree ~ it was no revelatory exercise but clearly not a hatchet job; it was more an expose of dodgy geezer punters than anything.
erm……there is a bent element in every walk of life. it was a poor program..another waste of tax payers money.
Perhaps I should have places a bet on Betfair – even more froth than I expected.
Nothing new for those who know anything about racing – shock, horror sensationalism for those who are not followers of teh sport.
To be honest it wasn’t even that well presented – if it was intended as a hatchet job then it could have been done much better. Tabloid television.
I disagree ~ it was no revelatory exercise but clearly not a hatchet job; it was more an expose of dodgy geezer punters than anything.
I said "IF it was intended" the implication being it did not work as such.
[/b]no, it didn’t look good and it makes me think even more that rather than cases have previously been brought against innocent people, cases may just have been brought incredibly incompetently and complacently
still, at the end of the day, unless someone is convicted by a jury they are said to be not guilty and if someone has mind enough to put a bet on they have mind enough to decide if they want to, all things considered and nobody is forcing them to do so
we know it’s not straight and yet we still enjoy it, most of the time, i guess we are all constantly hoping it will get better and that anyway, even though it’s a bit grey, it’s not too dark to put us off completely
what can you say ?
So if there is a bent element, should we just accept it, or rid them from the sport? Hopefully the BHA will be able rid the likes of Lynch from the sport for good.
BTW, is it wrong to still be laughing at the bit where Bennett kicks Kenyon in the air?
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