Bbc Tv News

[soliloquy]

Was it in any way justifiable for the BBC tv ten o'clock news on Sunday night to include an item about Victoria Beckham's 50th birthday party?

[jno]

to give viewers a break from stories about wars, mortgage rates and rail strikes? Sometimes harmless good news is a great blessing.

[Canary42]

Totally unsuitable, don't they know News should be doom, gloom, wars, death, pestilence, gloom, doom, wars, pestilence, death, etc

[davebro3]

nope

[davebro3]

I might have missed it but my 77th birthday wasn't mentioned on BBC news last December.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, I think so. Back in the day all the news shows had a short novelty item just before the weather. This is the sort of thing they would put in that slot.

[Buenchico]

I think that the main point of the story wasn't that it was VB's birthday but that it was the first time that the Spice Girls have performed together since they split.
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[Old_Geezer]

They do these daft so called social interest things occasionally (or more often). Especially if they have little real news they're willing to tell us about. One tends to indulge them about such irrelevance, but no, someone reaching 50 and having a party is hardly good news, nor is it interesting. And the only reason the girls got together was the party, so the meeting was simply an effect of the cause, i.e. the party. I was a little surprised Victoria had to be carried out by David though, had she really got that intoxicated ? (Rhetorical question only.)

[Peter Pedant]

was anything else of note happening - or is your point: we dont know as they padded out the available time with rubbish?

we also had a bit on the coin hoard found in Darzett aaaargh ! at a lonely place  called South Poorton - the grandfather or gt grandfather was a patient of  my father's. I remember accompanying him on a house-call in the fifties ( also my father's fifties). 

Being sold at Duke's, Darchester aaaarh tomorrow.

I find Victoria's  business affairs of overwhelming interest as she as prepared to sacrifice everything to optimise her own share - a  bit like Lennon and those loveable scouse mopheads ( the Beatles). - that band was much better / useful. productive as a quartet, but John still broke it up - I dont think it fell apart.

o god she is so rich and looks so miserable the whole time.  - she doesnt 'do' gracious

[Peter Pedant]

Especially if they have little real news they're willing to tell us about

yeah today 1300 we went back from Beeb news to Traces ( BBC1) 1304 when they led on - Rwanda - vote until you drop dead - Trump ( more screams of it is not fair, still in court)  - Sexy MPs in public lavatories ( last week: they cant STILL be there) - and Ladies playing with someone else barlz ( rugby).

[Peter Pedant]

I was a little surprised Victoria had to be carried out by David though,

didnt she spy dog poo, 50 m darn da road? - she wished to take the spotlight from her erstwhile co-singers. Before Meghan we had Victoria

[Peter Pedant]

had a short novelty item just before the weather.

David Frost did it in the seventies - and finally folks

Alistair Burnet News at ten used to give a little homily ( was an editor before newscaster)

[douglas9401]

Viewers were polled on what they wanted, what they really really wanted...

[Peter Pedant]

their last single - they were getting on so badly ( oh come on Ladies it was paying for the mortgage) they didnt appear together - they had those ridiculous fluttering cartoon fairies

and when they appeared at the lead-in to the London Olympics it was as a 4+1 group.

[Gill1941]

It just shows how dumbed-down BBC has become.

[anneasquith]

You do have a point. In today's newspapers the headlines are about a child's birthday. 

[naomi24]

Why not?  The more gloomy news was included too for those who prefer to dwell on misery.  Likewise the daily newspapers.  

[perseverer]

Perennial problem, what interests viewers/readers and what it is in their interest to be informed about does not always match.

[Peter Pedant]

 what interests viewers/readers and what it is in their interest to be informed about does not always match.

very  1923 BBC view

nowadays, it is whether people will watch - including the Gee thelma last item. I constantly berate the Been by email for the love of fluffies putting it as they learnt at uni rather than clearly.

(they got Haemophila badly wrong)