Okay this the usual low level of my typical posting, and I guess against the
backdrop of the Asian earthquake tsunami disaster, a tad inconsequential .
However, watching BBC breakfast news this morning (obvious, being breakfast)
I noticed a Carol Driftwood remark which made me think "well what is it to
be, good or bad?".
As Carol was giving the forecast, she made reference to some very mild, in
fact much higher than average temperatures forecast today for parts of the
UK. I think she said at one stage something like, and of course in her usual
style "there will be some luvverly beltingly high temperatures today".
Well it was obviously meant to convey how wonderful it is to have such high
temperatures. Now if we really want high temperatures than surely we should
welcome global warming.
If on the contrary if it's felt that high temperatures are bad, see the
BBC's report.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4120755.stm

Then why the hell are they asking their forecasters to smile and give every
impression that unseasonable warmth is good, and then get their journalist
to have a right gob on, when covering a Global Warming news report?
Inconsistent if you ask me.

Warm is bad warm is good, warm is bad warm is good

Lawrence Jenkins wrote:

Then why the hell are they asking their forecasters to smile and give every
impression that unseasonable warmth is good, and then get their journalist
to have a right gob on, when covering a Global Warming news report?
Inconsistent if you ask me.


Simple - see my post "What a fantastic day"; it was "luvvverly"

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chris
www.ivy-house.net
Swaffham, Norfolk

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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Okay this the usual low level of my typical posting, and I guess against the
backdrop of the Asian earthquake tsunami disaster, a tad inconsequential .
However, watching BBC breakfast news this morning (obvious, being breakfast)
I noticed a Carol Driftwood remark which made me think "well what is it to
be, good or bad?".
As Carol was giving the forecast, she made reference to some very mild, in
fact much higher than average temperatures forecast today for parts of the
UK. I think she said at one stage something like, and of course in her usual
style "there will be some luvverly beltingly high temperatures today".
Well it was obviously meant to convey how wonderful it is to have such high
temperatures. Now if we really want high temperatures than surely we should
welcome global warming.

Weather presenters are not there to comment upon their personal
preferences as regards the weather, rather to tell it like it is.
Imagine if newsreader commented upon the news items?
Imagine if Moira Stewart said 'Well that was a particularly dirty election
campaign, but at least Tony Blair won.'.
There'd be uproar!

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

Col wrote:

Weather presenters are not there to comment upon their personal
preferences as regards the weather, rather to tell it like it is.
Imagine if newsreader commented upon the news items?
Imagine if Moira Stewart said 'Well that was a particularly dirty
election campaign, but at least Tony Blair won.'.
There'd be uproar!

Col

Such as Kirsty Wark's "Well it looks very promising here " when
covering the 1992 election in ( I think ) Birmingham when Labour were
showing ahead in exit polls. This was hastily covered by a Dimbleby
query "Promising for who ? " but the meaning was clear. No uproar -
after all it was just the BBC showing its colours.

Rergards,
Tom

we might get some more global warming comments if this chart for the
15th January comes off

http://129.13.102.67/wz/pics/Rtavn3841.gif

deep orange colours across southern England.
Could be quite spring--like

actually the newsreaders do have personal opinions on the news items
they read.

shame they have to keep it all to themselves really.

but 'just doing the job' means reading off the auto-cue with an
unemotional serious expression

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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Now if we really want high temperatures than surely we should welcome
global warming.
If on the contrary if it's felt that high temperatures are bad, see the
BBC's report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4120755.stm

I went to church after a long lapse yesterday. I'm feeling really down.
One of my weatherbooks is a collection of weatherlore. The first "saw"
in it is that one man's good weather is another man's bad.

I have come to terms with that but this disaster has really got to me.
I've never felt so impotent.

The plain fact is that these things have always occurred and it is
nothing directly due to using oils and plastics but it is due to the way
we treat the planet. And in my religious musings, it is also due to the
way we treat each other.

125 thousand and rising. But these sort of tolls have been and are
permitted in all walks of life if we allow criminals to run and ruin
countries. And worse to come.

The thing is we get hardened and innured to them.


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"BlueLightning" wrote in message
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actually the newsreaders do have personal opinions on the news items
they read.

shame they have to keep it all to themselves really.

but 'just doing the job' means reading off the auto-cue with an
unemotional serious expression

And so they should!
If you want your news coloured with poltical bias then buy a newspaper.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

Col wrote:
"BlueLightning" wrote in message
oups.com...

actually the newsreaders do have personal opinions on the news items
they read.

shame they have to keep it all to themselves really.

but 'just doing the job' means reading off the auto-cue with an
unemotional serious expression


And so they should!
If you want your news coloured with poltical bias then buy a newspaper.

Col

The Daily Express I read is the most neutral newspaper in the country ;-)

Joe
Wolverhampton

Lol, in my opinion they express themselves too much! Imagine they were to
express their feelings for each story... there would be so much bias, it
would be like watching a party political broadcast for each different story.
Complaints would fly etc etc. would be a right mess.
At times it is like this anyway.
When I turn on the news or weather, I want just that. I just need the
information, nothing less nothing more.
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shame they have to keep it all to themselves really.