Bbc1 news, ecig bad press about to happen

[wilko]

It was 1.3 million when I started a year ago, so it's way more now

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I agree with you. How many people have started in the past 6 months alone? I'm one to start with (was smoking cigalikes 2 years ago though) I would bet it's around the 2million mark at least.

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[steffijade]

The more I see of BBC news of late, the more I feel like it's just become a vehicle for government propaganda.. and we all know the government wants the public to be concerned enough about vaping that they can 'legitimately' claim to be acting out of concern for health/safety when they implement regulation, licensing and taxation.

The fact that the BBC charter is up for review in the near future makes it quite vulnerable to manipulation by government. Yeah it's not quite Pravda in it's heyday, but I think that some at a high level within the BBC are being coerced to stay 'on message' under threat of cuts to future funding.

I'd love to see vaping properly debated on the BBC, with folk such as Clive Bates and Dr Farsalinos invited to argue the case for vaping but that would probably stray too far away from the preferred official line... and the public need to kept at a certain level of concern to avoid government plans being questioned.

Ah I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

 

[vaporsizer]

The BBC have been at the helm of controlling what the public see in the news for far too long imo. You know what i'm saying ? There could be some really constructive world issues for them to report on but they would rather follow say, a story about an airline disaster with a load of shite about some Hollywood celeb who got arrested for drunk driving ! Like we should give a fuck !
Or what some stick insect supermodel did to an ankle when a catwalk walk went wrong.

And it's illegal to not pay for this shit ! At the end of the day the media abuse their responsibility to inform by allowing themselves to be controlled & then we see what they are told to show us. A true numpty believes most of what's broadcast because the BBC say so, so it must be true. As far as i'm concerned they are the flagship for mass control, i can watch it but i can make my own mind up too.

We should complain when they misrepresent us, make ourselves heard & show them we are not fucking idiots !

 

[Fleabag]

Mind you, I'd sooner take my chances with the public believing things because the BBC said so than them doing the same with the Daily Mail!

 

[Chegs]

A forum I used to post on would often include statements like


"Just saw this on BBC..." and then fill the rest of the "limited" word counted post box with reasons why we should all be concerned as because it was on BBC,it cannot be untrue.Then followed a "discussion" (<---argument) as to why the BBC were wrong as the "Daily Fail article says...." which then brought out all the Guardian/Telegraph/Sun readers with their opinions and a statistician would trawl the net to post links as to why each previous response was wrong.When the forum had hundreds of posters,discussions were interesting,my last few visits I noted that despite a membership count in the millions,there seemed to only be a hardcore dozen or so opinionated silver surfers.Case in point,I posted there a thread about APV's,and the response from a couple of this hardcore group was "I think they look silly 'smoking' them" which resulted in that being my last visit there.

The thing that really annoys me about News on the BBC is,whatever the story...ITV will "investigate" it's source,and then fill their News slots with even more shite about "talking to a witness" that turns out to have only witnessed the item on the fucking TV.

This is why my TV spends more time turned off than on,as I cannot be arsed to watch The Voice-X-Factor-I'm not a celebrity,but I used to be on TV 40 years ago so get the fuck out of here,etc & the "News" is all about who got booted out of the jungle.

 

[shezzuk1]

The BBC is just a lefty propaganda tool to control the masses. I never watch it unless it's snooker or golf and have to pay through the nose for the privilege. It needs government action to weed out the lefty toadies who control it.

 

[m0th]

is this online? does anyone have a link to it?

cheers
Wayne

 

[Scoff]

I've noticed a massive rise in vapers in the last few months. I'm guessing the figure is now not far off 4 Million.