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Respectfully, you're not just wrong, you're wrongly wrong. The nature coverage on BBC is an order of magnitude better than anything else on TV. The science co
by LatteLazy 6y ago
Respectfully, you're not just wrong, you're wrongly wrong.
The nature coverage on BBC is an order of magnitude better than anything else on TV.
The science coverage on BBC is better than anyone else on TV.
The news coverage on BBC is better than anything else on TV.
And that's just the starters.
The podcast revolution were in right now? Brits have had that since the 70s with radio 4 producing great audio programs. Everything from science to history to drama to comedy. Their programming makes up a big chunk of the best podcasts and another chunk are ripoffs of BBC shows.
Streaming? BBC iPlayer was the trailblazer in that space.
And we're still not done.
The UK has a similar problem to US media: its mostly owned by crazy right wingers and what isn't spends a lot of time navel gazing and sharing cat in tree stories. Not the BBC, they keep breaking big stories. They don't care or have to care about the editorial line or commercial interests of their advertisers or even their viewers prejudices. And educated, informed voters are one reason we have maintained (just) decent healthcare and a semi working benefit system. They actually force other media to be better. That's why we don't have Foxx news and our antivaxx movement is smaller than the US or Frances.
I'm not saying they're perfect. I'm not saying they're always right or they couldn't do better.
I'm just saying, we need more than just the commercial model, be it ads or subscription based. There are 1001 things it doesn't do well. It does other things great. But it can't give you everything. Why not keep both?
Thanks for reading my rant.
- CodeGlitch 6y agoThanks for your response - feel free to rant. I agree with what you said, but given there's only so many hours in the day, and I only watch TV to "switch my brain off", I didn't feel it worth the cost given that Netflix et al fills that hole just fine- for far less. To get my science / nature / news I turn to podcasts.
- LatteLazy 6y agoThanks for YOUR response! Sorry if mine was too confrontational. I definately know what you mean. I've spent more time vegitating in front of Brooklyn Nine-nine than watching enriching educational material myself. May I recommend 2 BBC podcasts for science etc as our ships pass in the night? The life scientific 40 to 60min interviews with scientists about what they do, how they did it, why they ended up in the field. Very interesting! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 More or Less A statistics program. Only about 20m per episode, they take a statistical question or a lie or similar and research where it came from and what the truth is. There are some really good episodes on Covid stats recently as well as a few that answer (disprove) articles that have cropped up here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads Both have RSS feeds.
- CodeGlitch 6y agoWill check those out. Thanks again. Edit: aha it has Professor Jim Al-Khalili in it... He is an excellent presenter
- UK-Al05 6y agoThere's tons science courses, maths courses and stats courses on the internet where you learn these things in depth. Most documentaries are often 'pop' takes at things.
- LatteLazy 6y agoI think the BBC are actually really great at avoiding the pop trap. They either do it very well or they just don't do it. I'd point to a lot of popular podcasts as "pop" rip offs of BBC pieces. "Stuff you should know" is really just "In Our Time" with easier topics and no experts for instance. Plus no 500 episode backlog over several decades.
- soneil 6y agoI love the beeb, but I’m happy enough for people to criticise them too - just because I think it’s great, doesn’t mean it can’t improve. I used to think the TV licence was oppressive, until I moved to the US - and quickly realised I’d happily pay the licence if I could.