Monday, 11 August 2008

Not News: Issue 3

You may very well be asking yourself "does Barnardo only ever read the BBC 'News' website for news and current affairs, it's all he ever seems to comment on?".

I can see where you're coming from. I do post predominantly about stories from the BBC 'News' website. This however does not represent the amount of time I spend reading the BBC site but rather the relative utter shittness of BBC 'News'.

One of the things that riles me most is when they report on things that do not constitute news, particularly when they proceed to put that 'news' in their ticker.

I am well riled. Have a look at this:



And this link to the story above.

I'm going to be totally honest with you, I haven't read this story. Instead of reading the latest news on kids being nasty to each other, I'm off to read about the stirrings of World War 3 over in Georgia or perhaps something to do with the human rights abuses of the host country of the Olympic Games, China.

Or maybe I'll just go and have a shit. Who knows?

1 comment:

The Dibbster said...

I've read the story. It makes some excellent and new points:

i) Children aware of brands
ii) Adverts target youngsters
iii) Bears defecate in wooded areas