The Wimbledon PM Glass Box.
The Glass Box is where the PM team meets in at 18.00 every weeknight to discuss the content of the programme.
We try to be honest with each other, but not hurtful, as we talk about what worked and what didn't...what met our expectations and what fell short.
This virtual glass box is where you're encouraged to take part in the same spirit. Tonight's editor will read your comments and may well add one too.
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In anticipation of something on bbc expenses and salaries- Isn't the wonder of the bbc the fact that it doesn't have to compete for commercial revenue, so that it's free to put together the sort of programs which commercial stations couldn't? So when we get told that a bigwig entertainer could command a giant salary making similar programs for other channels shouldn't we let them get on with it? That way more of the licence fee could go towards more unique and high quality productions... a PM bloggers conference in the Bahamas perhaps?
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Mmm, Carlos, I like that suggestion. Can I book my place, please?
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Since we froggers put up the ideas for iPM and post copiously in the AM GB, I think we are due a little something...
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Appalled at the interview with James Dyson. He who moved production from UK to Malaysia!!
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1. Carlos: huge carbon footprint for that one I'm afraid.
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I kept switchin on and eventually at 24 past 5 PM switched from homage to any other business, so I left it on then. 24 minutes? That's what I call losing all sense of proportion.
Next sensation please.
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Not a pretty sight, you know Edward?
Old man dancing - yet that Michael Jackson medley at the end had me adjusting the zimmer frame setting to "movement" and were it of a certain vintage - "moonwalking" would be there as an option too I am sure!
Talking of moonwalking - at about the same time they were - USA - giant step for mankind etc - a certain lady from overseas hit these shores. "Moonstruck".
Cher poetry.
Back then - I forgot they were walking on the moon for some reason and was only reminded of it when they tried to assess whether a word HAD been missed by Neil Armstrong in his soliloquy.
After my exertions:
"My back is bad, is bad - you know it? My back is bad - sham moor!" lol
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Am I the only new kid on the blog, tonight?
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Wimbledon;
I want the screaming ball hitters to progress just to see at what point they are told to put a sock in it. Navratilova says its all cheating. She also says it is cheating when they take their time to produce a serve between points. There is a time rule between points she said but, it is never enforced.
The other thing I'd like to know is, whats with the military uniforms that stand up as if they are security when the players break between games? Are they really military or is it something put on by the middle class Wimbledon authorities as no more than a reminder of our colonial past?
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H1N1 - Should pregnant women take RELENZA which is inhaled as "it doesn't then directly affect the foetus" (something I am not convinced about) rather than Tamiflu which is ingested and should in fact be avoided? Would a kind expert please confirm or deny this. We are not being properly prepared and no one seems to know. It's a crazy H1N1 world for mothers.
Drawing a blank here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/ferguswalsh/2009/06/the_risks_relating_to_pregnancy.shtml
Best regards,
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Quite agree with inviseableathaist, Radio 4's time dedicated to Michael Jackson was excessive. The Today programme had endless drivel about it, 24 minutes on PM and then 15 minutes on the news. It's not even silly season yet. I had to go to commercial radio to escape it all. I was expecting Radio 3 to start playing mournful music. King of Pop, well, maybe, but there are far more talented musicians out there who will not get the coverage simply because their record sales are smaller. Whatever happened to the concept of a meritocracy?
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John Martyn barely got a mention yet his voice was superior by a factor of hundreds, he was a superlative musician admired by all the major talent in rock, and he wrote his own songs which actually had meaning. But then he didn't appeal to millions of epsilon screamers.
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Hello,
I'm under no illusion that you're all waiting for my pearls of editorial wisdom vis a vis Jackson, but if you are interested you'll find them on the Jackson thread (number 90 something). Briefly (7) love it, (8) welcome.
A bientot,
Jo
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Do you want a bigger box? Want to impress your friends? Feel that no one is paying you any attention?
Find a really long hyperlink to add to your message.
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#4
I had no idea that James Dyson had moved his production from the Uk to Malaysia.
I admire him, and agree with all he said today on the show. Working in Engineering myself I can support that there is a dearth of young engineers coming into the industry. So much so that on the West Coast Main line we had recruitment drives in Africa and Australia.
One problem is the status of Engineering in society, as JD claimed. Engineering graduates want to be Project Managers, not Engineers. Such is where the seniority, status and money lie. Those who wish to indulge their passion and skills in engineering must be content with being shoed in managers or less well paid underlings.
And me?
I am an Engineering Project Management Consultant. :-0
Cos I have a living to make, and I like earning money for my family more than indulging self fulfilment. :-(
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fJd @ 9, I watched part of one match today, can't remember the names sorry, and one of the women playing made a strange hooting noise every time she hit the ball. It was interesting to listen to the crowd start to react against her, and begin to applaud when she missed shots even if the other player hadn't done anything especially wonderful.
I don't know about actually cheating, but it is certainly distracting to the viewer and it must be maddening for the opponent.
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Chris (16)
I think I watched some of that match too. I also seem to remember the issue of grunting came up a few years ago and I was of the understanding that it had been dealt with. However, it seems to have returned with a vengeance. It will be interesting to see how things progress.
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fJd @ 17, the person I was watching with, who is actually interested in watching the tennis (she is an invalid, and I was watching because she was) said that the grunter was booed for it in Paris or somewhere, but the British are more polite.
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Chris (18)
I can't quite remember the names of the players either. My brain seems to have melted many of the new kids names together in recent years. I tend to put a Pova/Cova/Nova at the end of a Shara and most know whom I'm referring too. Btw I heard the Paris story too I think. I think the consensus was, she was only doing it to put off the opponent. I suppose it might get a bit much when the ball is coming back at you and your still finishing off your serve rattle. Which incidentally, being a man, I always found rather attractive but only at the optimum length of attractivity if you see what I mean.
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Micheal Jackson seems to have buried the BBC expenses outrages.
But there's another factor. The execs are grey suits, some known but still faceless.
The champagne, the flowers, the prog, hospitality are often for 'talent'. And we love talent (or it's that no one does, and assumes everyone else does), they're populist these days and so popular, so by implication we're criticising Those We Have Loved, and we know it.
So it's all muted.....
But, like the expensed up execs, 'talent' is ridiculously overpaid, the pay kept high by the usual neighbourhood watch argument (We keep pay up because the channels you love to flip to do.)
Further the 'talent' includes those guiding us through the political and economic thickets.
They do not tend to cut off their own noses.
At the moment it is possible to hear notes of indignation pitched higher than a Wimbledon cheat's, crying 'A bottle of champagne for Brucie?' at top C and then ' A cake forf forty quid!' at G above top C, from people who, one assumes, they tend not to tell us, are stuffing over 2 hundred thousand (million?) under their mattresses each year.
So,with them acting as conduits, and, despite their acting abilities, moderating listener anger by the implausibility (Listen Again) of their cries, how CAN the anger WE rightly should feel get expressed.
Attack those we love, say Stephan Fry for talking up BAB ( bonuses are back) in the week or someone we hate and extrapolate?
They're all over paid, ridiculously preposterously.
These people are not Islands Entire of Themselves. They are the bloated rich living in the same world as the deprived and the wretched starvlings.
Send Not For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Don't bother. It tolls for someone else with every canape and good bottle of 50 year old malt at every BBC junket and every above average thousand in the salary of the 'talented'.
They have talent, all right.
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HAH, can you please confirm to me that you are a new poster on this blog? You asked yesterday whether you were the only new poster, so I assume you are, and if so I'd like to say "Hi".
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mr eddie mair yet again another very fine show last week you would be amazed at the amount of lorry drivers that listen to your show there is as much grip in it as holding onto the steering wheel of a 44 tonne truck the comment often passed amongst other drivers about your show is your INTERVIEWEES. maybe some people don't like the truth or wish to answer the truth look forward to mondays show.
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Chris (210 - No. That's Mac.
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Chris (21) - No.That's Mac. (that's better)
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TIH @ 23/4, oh, is it? I like the "robotic answering machine" theory too, though.
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22.
And when you hear how much the Dimblebeys and John Humphreys and J. Paxton etc actually get and when you hear those cut glass voices from Mary Warnock to Caroline Quinn, do you wonder?
Wonder why anyone should ever get a single penny more than you. (As I also wonder why anyone should ever get a penny less than anyone else) And why you should be wrestling with a 44 tonner with them sitting in the studio instead of the other way round.
Listening to MPs and other liars not admitting the dishonesty of inequality is not much compensation for the absence of equality and no substitute for equality and work redistribution from the tough to the toffs.
Justifying any inequality is the greatest lie of all.
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I've no complaints about Carlos the Mackerell's comments on the BBC. He's right on the ball: my sentiments entirely. The BBC should and must be fully accountable. Just let those individuals who "could earn much more in the private sector" leave and recruit someone else who is keen to work for the organisation at the salary on offer.
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TIH, I have just read 26. You are right. Shame about the autobot notion, but I expect that will come.
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