59: Words and pictures

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike Graham and Matt Kelly discuss the week's news including how the media reported Kobe Bryant's death, the ongoing saga of Harry and Meghan and the upcoming Brexit deal and the benefits of leaving the EU. As you've come to expect, there's a few tangential tales from the news room including the unsung skill of being succinct, appeasing difficult editors, running cringeworthy and factually incorrect stories and how celebrities use the press for their benefit.

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to a new and even more sparking edition of the thought police in the company even even I know it's hard to
0:53.7	believe that it careful with the promises well you know I never I've never broken
0:57.2	promise in my life if you believe if you believe that I've got some swap
1:01.3	lad in Florida and so he's's Matt Kelly. I'm Mike Graham
1:03.7	This is the thought police. This is a big week and obviously later on in the week we'll talk a bit more about why it's such a big week
1:10.0	because I don't want to you know sort of shoot the gun too early as it were if I'm not going to be sort of held up for using bad language on a podcast.
1:18.7	But there's been a lot of interesting stuff going on in the last couple of days particularly sort of around the
1:24.2	media right because I was on talk radio yesterday talking about the BBC and how
1:29.2	they managed to make a complete blunder which is almost unforgivable really for a national and
1:34.7	international television company where they mistook LeBron James for
1:39.2	Kobe Bryant now if you were to be uncharitable you would say there's somebody inside the BBC who thinks that all black basketball players look the same
1:47.6	Yeah, but he had his name on the back. He had his name James on the back. Yeah, I mean how does that happen? It's bad isn't it's bad isn't there something that they did recently as well that they got completely wrong
1:56.5	the BBC I can't remember there was yeah no there was they apologized for it was something on wasn't it politics on anyway yeah I think it was but you know it's
2:06.4	hard to imagine I mean I haven't worked for a television news company so I don't know
2:10.0	how they put together the news at 10 but I'm pretty certain that they must have a similar
2:13.9	editing process that we have in radio. Mistakes happen don't they but? Mistakes do happen but I mean...
2:19.1	You have to say it's a bad... it's something you would double check isn't it because
2:23.5	precisely because of that yeah accusation you know you've just mixed up the only two
2:28.6	black basketball players well imagine if the Daily Mail had done it you know you never
2:31.8	hear the end of it from the BBC, would you?
2:33.4	I saw a Daily Mail caption the other day.
2:36.0	Oh, yeah.
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