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Listed below are comments made by sanbikinoraion between Monday, 21st April 2008 and Friday, 19th June 2009.

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Filling in the blanks 10:49am on 19 Jun 2009 Er, is it not obvious where Gordon Brown lives...?
Open and shut case? 2:08pm on 29 Oct 2008 Oh, and also, it's not really fair complaining about "secondary" complainants - of course the people who think phoning people up and being abusive to them don't listen to Brand, Ross or Moyles - that doesn't mean they can't be deeply disappointed in the BBC for letting them get away with it.
Open and shut case? 2:06pm on 29 Oct 2008 As #23. It doesn't really matter what anyone's audience thinks. The fact is that two people paid an incredibly large amount of money on the basis of their quality somehow thought it'd be a good idea to harass an old man on his answerphone, something that is not only quite pathetic but also against the law: section 43 of the 1984 Telecommunications Act states:

"A person who—
(a)
sends, by means of a public telecommunication system, a message or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character; or
(b)
sends by those means, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another, a message that he knows to be false or persistently makes use for that purpose of a public telecommunication system,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to [F1 imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or both].

If this was anyone other than Brand, Ross or Moyles then they would be out on their ear in short order but for some reason the BBC superstars get carte blanche to break the law on air and get away with it.

Off with their heads.
Super-strength Clegg 4:02pm on 17 Sep 2008 It was a great speech, full of hope and energy. Painting the Tories as "Blue Labour" was simply perfect.
Olympic overdose? 4:19pm on 08 Aug 2008 What #2 said. You're fired.
Is Amy porn? 10:03am on 03 Jul 2008 The very fact that you even have to consider whether to drop an interview with the PRIME MINISTER for a story from a musician, whatever their state of health or inebriation, speaks volumes.
Comments on changes 10:29am on 22 Apr 2008 So, Peter, you've managed to respond without absorbing the criticism of any of the comments made whatsoever. Are we all so misguided that you were 100% right and we are 100% wrong? You even dismiss our feedback on graphics tweaks by saying "quantitive feedback will be sought later", which you were going to do anyway.

This smacks of a government "consultation" - pretend to care about what people think, then do what you were going to do all along.

Don't bother next time, I'd rather not be patronized.
New News 10:22am on 21 Apr 2008 Peter - thanks for your offer to respond to comments... I suspect that you may not realize what you're letting yourself in for :P

I was actually quoted in the Times and the Metro on the rebrand of the news on Radio 4 as reported here, and I've basically got the same thing to say again: what, exactly, was wrong with the old titles? Or the titles before those? Could you, in your response, please state how much of the BBC News budget has been spent on this pointless rebranding exercise?

It seems like BBC News is going mad for stamping its "athuritah" (Cartman voice) over all of the programmes that it produces in a sort of tribal marking-with-urine sort of way that bears no relevance to what viewers actually care about.

And offering to respond to comments at this point is moot - the BBC has yet again followed a "do and be damned" approach to its viewers, by making the changes they want to make without asking what viewers want *in advance*. It would have been far more sensible to offer this consultation *before* rolling out the new graphics - because you are hardly likely to switch back to the old style now for fear of losing face.

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Now some substantive points on new titles:

1. go and watch The Day Today again. Yep, BBC News is looking ever more like the titles to the paragon of news satire.

2. you've gone and called your 10pm news "BBC News At Ten" - like anyone is going to call it that, when there's already an "ITV News At Ten". They are still going to call it "the ten o'clock news", to differentiate it from the other guys.

3. calling News 24 "BBC News" is again just going to lead to confusion, because people won't be sure *which* BBC News show or channel you're referring to. 24 was fine, and by fiddling around you have made a definite backwards step.

4. News 24 might be the most popular TV news show, but Carling is the UK's most popular lager. Popularity does NOT equate to quality! ... and isn't Sky News "News Channel of the Year" at the moment?

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