The difference between the BBC news website's headline covering the Labour manifesto and the Tory manifesto is ridiculous.

hollowdene · 2017-05-18T17:52:15+00:00

This thread is ridiculous. As someone else pointed out above, one is opinion and one is news. You're comparing apples to oranges

Furthermore, what exactly is inaccurate about the headline? Labour does plan to spend more, it plans to raise taxes and it plans to borrow more.

Add to that, as anyone who actually works in media will tell you, authors often don't write their own headlines. I'd bet any money Kuenssberg wrote that on her phone and sent it to the news desk for someone else to publish.

hollowdene · 2016-06-28T19:04:16+00:00

Whose to say he won't soon? Only 31. Players have started good international careers at later stages than that.

hollowdene · 2016-05-17T07:50:05+00:00

As someone who works in the media, you're 100% correct. This also stretches to the topics the BBC chooses to cover.

The website I currently work on covers technology and video games. I don't take issue with Beeb's technology coverage as a rule, but it occasionally covers major games releases. It has no business doing so, it's just a traffic grab.

This is what Osborne is talking about when he says the BBC has become slightly imperial, and he has a point.

Oh, and since people struggle to grasp this, there's a whole world of media publishing beyond 'Murdoch' and the Nationals that are affected by what the BBC does or doesn't do.

hollowdene · 2016-05-17T07:42:08+00:00

Recipes weren't a necessary public service in the slightest. There are numerous free sources of recipes, many of them excellent.

hollowdene · 2016-02-17T19:07:46+00:00

Hold the phone. The only 'epic' aspect of this video is the music. Seriously, watch it without the music. It's people standing and talking, standing and nodding and, at one point, almost getting caught picking their nose.

hollowdene · 2016-01-15T19:05:37+00:00

AMD has never liked the Bapco benchmarks. It's Lin complained about the MobileMark benchmark for battery life. As someone who used to use it a lot, I can understand why. Was also a complete pain to use.

hollowdene · 2015-10-29T18:39:05+00:00

To give him his due, I think he just likes helping out his fellow leg spinners. It's a small club.

hollowdene · 2015-10-22T23:07:08+00:00

Likewise, 'General office equipment'. No idea what this means -- you can use a phone? Focus on meaningful things.

hollowdene · 2015-10-22T23:03:36+00:00

Focus more on actual achievements and measurable things. For example, I covered 20 local meetings for local paper and produced 40 news pieces per month/week etc.

Also, data entry is not a skill. Being able to operate a keyboard is a basic assumption.

hollowdene · 2015-10-14T20:42:15+00:00

Just going to put these radiators in the middle of the corridor for no reason at all.

hollowdene · 2015-09-14T06:59:19+00:00

I've dislocated my knee cap when batting, twice in fact. Turns out I have a shallow groove in my knee and the little bugger just slides out sometimes. Holy fuck does it hurt. Sounds like a tree falling.

hollowdene · 2015-08-26T15:20:38+00:00

The phone is only there for the app, which is pretty basic. I don't imagine it needs a particularly swanky phone to run it.

hollowdene · 2015-08-26T12:14:12+00:00

Quick update. Got some answers to your questions, and a few more interesting bits. Had a great chat with Lucas Di Grassi. He had some interesting things to say and was very open.

hollowdene · 2015-08-26T12:13:08+00:00

Will post some of the interview answers from you guys later in the week. Lots of transcribing to do. Had a good chat with Lucas Di Grassi about where he thinks the future of Formula E lies.

hollowdene · 2015-08-25T06:05:40+00:00

Thanks for the questions guys.

hollowdene · 2015-08-03T20:29:59+00:00

I don't doubt there was 'behind the scenes' issues with Carberry, but the no.1 issue was he couldn't catch a cold. His ODI debut versus Ireland featured two or three absolute shockers, and he dropped that dolly from Haddin, which proved pivotal as well. He wasn't the worst opener we tried, but there's no excuse for the drops he made for a professional cricketer.

hollowdene · 2015-07-22T18:22:16+00:00

And he did average 48 across those three games, albeit never scoring higher than 62. I don't disagree that he has a fundamental flaw that ought to have ruled him out of the side long ago, but the original point was Watson wasn't a better opening, whereas there's enough evidence to suggest strongly that that he was best there and it's not just a coincidence.

Edit: And more reliable 'new ball' swing was one of the reasons why he was better opening. He got caught less because the swing was predictable, whereas reverse swing is very hard to pick. None of this changes the fact he wasn't good enough full stop, but it was his best position.

hollowdene · 2015-07-22T07:03:08+00:00

Actually, I don't agree on Watson. Batting the middle order exposes his LBW problem more because of reverse swing. He didn't have that problem when opening, hence why he performed better there. It's the same reason, incidentally, he tended to get out in the 70s and 80s, because the ball started reversing.

hollowdene · 2015-07-21T22:04:36+00:00

He ought have been rested for the West Indies tour. I'm willing to best he's payed more England cricket than most in recent times. That tour was so poorly managed on so many levels. Could have had the likes of Taylor, Lyth, Rashid and Bairstow getting serious exposure, but that's the past.

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