So called reporters

[loobylou]

How on earth do these so called 'reporters' get their jobs? Calling the Queen, HRH, saying HMS Belfast's tonnage was 90 odd thousand and now have just watched a royal correspondent say that Prince William is at RAF Anglesey and Kate will be just like any other army wife!! Any other howlers?

[masma]

BBC reporters used to be the best in the world, after the jubilee celibrations they've prooved themselves to be rubbish!!

[zebo]

Considering he was on a BBC programme, Ian Hislop took them apart on HIGNFY last night, the programme generally praised the Sky production, comparing a couple of specific instances.

[AliceTickband]

A similar thingie happened last night while Fiona Bruce was reading the bbc news. She was mentioning an invisible art exhibition and her tone and facial expressions also gave us her opinion on this 'art'. Although I agreed with her, she is not there to give us her opinions, merely to report the news.

I think the bbc is losing the plot as far as current affairs are concerned. There are no commentators and the like any more of the calibre of Richard Dimbleby or Tom Fleming.

[cathfromsaron]

i cringed ALL weekend!

[albaqwerty]

I heard the numpty saying 'HRH Queen Elizabeth'

They were showing Her Majesty and not a ship. good grief. Monkeys and peanuts spring to mind.

[tenrec]

You've hit the nail on the head Alba.

[zebo]

Albaqwerty, monkeys true, but definitely not peanuts. Tess Daley seeems to have slid under the radar, but she was as appalling as Fern Cotton. They seemed to have been trying to make what could have been 4 hours of tedious coverage a happy event, but they went far too far the other way.

[pips1]

Bob Danvers Walker would be turning in his grave, I used to love his voice.

[Baldric]

A ship would be HMS

[Dodger666]

Another one informed us that Admiral Nelson was at Waterloo, fifteen years after he died at Trafalgar. They're all amateurs trousering shed loads of our licence fees. I wouldn't pay some of them in washers.

[Dodger666]

That should be ten years later not fifteen.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed Dodger, and given that Nelson was an admiral, it's unlikely he would have been too involved in the action at a land battle like Waterloo, even if he had not expried ten yers previously as you rightly pointed out.

You don;t have to be any kind of a history expert to know that Nelson died on the deck of the Victory at Trafalgar - lord knows if any of the BBC numpties glances skywards on the day, they could see a statue of the great man atop the column that bears his name - in a NAVY uniform!!!!!