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That's hilarious that a journalist thinks that datacenters are "often built inside icy mountains or under oceans".
by kleton 8y ago
That's hilarious that a journalist thinks that datacenters are "often built inside icy mountains or under oceans".
- abainbridge 8y agoIt'd be funny if it wasn't entirely normal for the BBC's technology output.
- setquk 8y agoBBCs reporting is nothing short of dire on everything at the moment. Random people on twitter are better journalists.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThe BBC do seem to have realised this, considering a lot of their "stories" recently are literally just cobbled-together lists of tweets from these random people.
- pja 8y agoIIRC BBC Online was deliberately gutted by the top brass to keep the (Conservative) government happy because it was perceived as competing too effectively with commercial news providers.
- setquk 8y agoSo basically not lining up with the Daily Express?
- pja 8y agoNot so much about political positioning, but simply that the quality of the straight news reporting was high & there were no ads, so viewers were flocking to the BBC website in preference to other commercial news providers. This was deemed unacceptable by the Conservative government during a crucial time in the negotiation of the renewal of the licence fee, so the website was quietly gutted to appease them. That’s the story I’ve been told at least.
- setquk 8y agoIf that is the case then it’s a sad outcome and it shows political overreach.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoBroadly speaking everywhere the BBC did well the Tories took as reason to see them as impacting on free competition and commercial interests. There have been periodic Tory calls to privatise them for decades. BBC online has been significantly limited twice, and BBC news more generally once (One relatively recent Tory change required the BBC to take on the costs of World Service that had always been Foreign Office until that point. Whilst editorially independent, the FO could ensure certain regions received output). It is quite sad, as there were many areas they were doing well in.
- noir_lord 8y agoBBC's tech stuff is possible poor, from editorial to accuracy and their reporters (for example Rory Cellan-Jones) have no background experience in the fields they are covering.
- misnome 8y agoHeard an "Interview" with the head of Instagram on BBC radio yesterday. Mostly consisted of trying to extract clickbait 'headline' splashes, asking him if he was going to resign (what would that accomplish?), accusing them of incompetence because they hadn't solved the 'simple' matter of age verification, and then brought up legislation that "could involve jail terms for executives. Are you prepared to go to jail for instagram??". Absolutely no grasp or insight of any complexity or issues that might actually be relevant. This was also a 'BBC Technology reporter' IIRC.