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Beijing Olympic Games 2008

Noelfirl posted:

Because London 2012 will have a defined budget. Money is no issue to the Communist Party when this is their one and only chance to show the world how fabulous China is.

Just watching it, I imagine the intention is to try to make sure that no country will ever be able to top this opening ceremony.


Indeed; from NBC:

"The most expensive opening ever was four years ago in Athens, when the Greeks spent a reported $30 million on their torch-lighting rite. The Chinese have surpassed them by a factor of 10. With an estimated $300 million budget..."
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Wimbledon

Any reason why a load of the BBC's Wimbledon videos on youtube have been taken down by the AELTC?
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ITN News Channel

Apologies, I misread private as being available directly from a link, should of logged out to check. Changed it, although it's hardly worth the amount of time I've spent uploading it now.
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ITN News Channel

I tried putting it on youtube but it cut the end off: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9yBaaG5W65M
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ITN News Channel

Not worthy of it's own thread but found this when I was cleaning out my computer from years ago, my only mock I bothered making:

ITN Endcap
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Nick Ross quits Crimewatch

Violent crime as light entertainment isn't my cup of tea
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BARB Ratings - anyone ever been part of the sample?

623058 posted:
so lets just say 2 out of 5000 wachted a show and it got poor rating BUT infant Over 7 million watched it

this is not a good system!


How does that make sense? I'm not sure I follow.

If it got 7 million then it would have to be incredibly unlucky to get just 2/5000 people tuning in. There's going to be some difference in the figures but I'd imagine a sample of 5000 people would be a reasonable indicator.

The real difference is probably made in the methodology, things like the minimum amount of time it takes for a 'viewing' to occur, and the time intervals these values are taken which may give misleading results.
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Big Brother

South Park makes great play on the fact they can use offensive terms and get away with it. Being ignorant to possible offensive is bad but doing it on purpose is worse. I'd like to know the number of people still using 'spastic', 'idiot' or 'gay' as insults who were upset by 'n*****' being uttered.
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Big Brother

Brekkie Boy posted:
It's all about context again - it's fine for South Park (or Big Brother) to show someone saying the word as long as they show that it's unacceptable for that person to say the word


So it's ok to say it in order to point out it's unacceptable to say it?
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Big Brother

Fair enough, but I can't see how South Park are allowed to use the word but others not, even if it is for humour.
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Big Brother

You're not ginger are you?
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Newswatch: Why Bother ?

It was fun a week ago though when Paul Kenyon was on defending the awful Panorama programme on Wi-Fi. He reeled off his fluff he'd prepared then they told him the Swedish expert they'd used had been voted 'misleader of the year' by 1600 scientists over there. His sheepish 'ooo, that's not good, is it?' was great.