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Old 17th March 2019, 20:55   #11
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The new BBC Scotland channel?
You mean BBC2 with a kilt on in the evening. Not impressed.
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Old 17th March 2019, 23:32   #12
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You mean BBC2 with a kilt on in the evening. Not impressed.
Yep, that's the one. Like I say, it's ok. Not good, not bad but ok
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If you want biased all you need is Jonathan Davies on the panel of pundits at a Wales game, its hilarious. Think its was the Scotland Wales game, Wales had made an error, one of the other pundits spoke about the error, Davies "yes . . . . but" immediate change of subject.
All my family agree with that,he does talk a lot of rubbish.
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I hope this is not too far back for some, but the bias is not new. In the days of the Light programme (note that spelling, defo period) and the Home programme when international boxing, somewhere between Hilversum, Athlone and Luxembourg on the dial, was free to air, there was an infamous radio commentator who shared the microphone with Eamonn Andrews.

I remember one very late night circa 1955, allowed to sit up with my dad, the fight between the British champion Don Cockell and, I think, Rocky Marciano in America for the heavyweight championship of the world. The other chap on the commenting team was Barrington Dalby, rather posh (at least to my unrefined Wavertree ears) and who insisted on butting in to Mr. Andrews’ excellent work by giving his thoughts.

He was a perpetual doom monger who rarely got it right. If a boxer was continually on the losing end of a round he would rubbish him unmercifully. If he then went on to win, even by a knockout, out came more rubbish. ‘Yes well, of course I thought throughout he would get the better of his obviously unfit opponent’ or if the other way round the sum-up would be the exact opposite of his commentary.

During that particular fight, unseen this side of the pond, there were episodes of ‘The brave Welshman has his quarry now, has him on the ropes and punishing him....’ when in fact Cockell was very nearly killed and lost every round, suffering a technical knockout.

That’s bias from the BBC, live on air, from 1955. Even now there is no shame. I don’t know why I pay my licen....., oh just a minute...

Oh, just aother minute, an afterthought. A modern copycat, in terms of what he says and how he sounds to a 't' is Barry Gardiner.
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