Correspondents

[Barman]

We may have discussed this before but it wound me up today… um listening to ‘Today’ funny enough…

Scenario
The newsreader girl reads the news article… some shite about flood plains this morning and then introduces the ‘Science and Nature’ correspondent. The SNC obviously knows shite-all about flood plains but acts the ‘expert’ by treading out the research that some overpaid university professor who has managed to scrounge an outrageous grant out of some government department for researching the blindingly obvious.

Next up is an article on pie-eating women having boys and anorexic women having no kids at all or girls. Over to the ‘women and babies’ correspondent who may well be a pie eater or anorexic for that matter but she too reads from some over priced and unnecessary ‘research’ paper.

What is the point… we pay the newsreader to read the news… let her earn her money for the half an hour she has to ‘work’ every day by reading out the research too… and sack all correspondents except those in war zones that actually earn their crust… 

[Nick]

I too have noticed that they all seem to interview one another.It is happening more and more.

[chocolatepudding]

Thank you Barman our overseas correspondent and thanks Nick our Northern correspondent.

Meanwhile  in Parliament today. . . . . . . . 

[Nick]

Welcome home!!

And how come you get an emoticon on your first post??

IT'S NOT FAIR!

[Darwins Selection]

I thought this was going to be about shoes. 

[Barman]

I dunno... 

I think some of the original ones work but the new ones don't work 'til you have made ten posts...

Welcome puds! 

[Nick]

Isn't she Darwin's lady friend?

[Barman]

Isn't she Darwin's lady friend?

Who, the women and babies correspondent? 

[Nick]

Yup. Someone brought a baby round here last night. She was quite nice

And so was the baby!

[Uncle Mort]

Back on topic ~ I guess that a 'Science & Nature' correspondent would have been employed because they have a grounding in science and thus could be expected to know whether or not they're reading tosh or not.

[Barman]

Yup. Someone brought a baby round here last night. She was quite nice

And so was the baby!

Boy or girl?

[Nick]

Which is why I always tried to deter students with journalistic ambitions from doing Media Studies.The idiots.If they know about some other subject (See Evan Davies and his Economics training for example) then they are qualified to talk about the subject. If you wanna get into journalism get to be an expert on something!

[Nick]

Yup. Someone brought a baby round here last night. She was quite nice

And so was the baby!

Boy or girl?

Hard to say.Bald (like you), looked like Winston Churchill (as all babies do). Dressed in something white (with some sick on it)

[Barman]

Back on topic ~ I guess that a 'Science & Nature' correspondent would have been employed because they have a grounding in science and thus could be expected to know whether or not they're reading tosh or not.

But they don’t know anything about it… they just read the report, there is no incite or questioning of the facts…

Even the economics correspondent gets a man that knows from the city in if there is to be some discussion. 

[Snoopy]

I thought this was going to be about shoes. 

You are the Late Brian Johnson and I claim my white fiver and a slice of the chocolate cake sent in by Mrs Snodgrass of Surbiton.