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They don't half have alot of power cuts there. Though to be fair there have been some quite major power cuts in London today.

I find some of the pointedly vicious comments regarding newsreaders to be quite stomach churning, and entirely surplus to legitimate discussion of news channels.

I was about to report some posts and then I see a moderator is part of it.*

Were I a broadcaster in that role I'd find another forum to contribute to.

* That is to say - has chosen not to put a stop to it.

I am not obsessed with Sir Ben of Brown (and I'll keep calling him that, until the Queen opens her eyes), and I most certainly do not have pictures of him on my wall. I just think he's a very good, lovable and funny presenter and journalist, with redeeming good qualities.

Poeple who enjoy Alastair Yates, Nicholas Owen etc need to get out more

Those in glass houses etc .....

[quote="Prime Minister"]I am not obsessed with Sir Ben of Brown (and I'll keep calling him that, until the Queen opens her eyes), and I most certainly do not have pictures of him on my wall. I just think he's a very good, lovable and funny presenter and journalist, with redeeming good qualities.

Ben, you really must stop posting on these boards. Haven't you got presenting shifts to be getting on with?

The perfect Sir Ben of Brown rota would be:

1, 6, 10 BBC1 bulletins five days a week
BBC World afternoons on a Saturday
BBC News 24 7-12pm on a Sunday with Ellie Crissell
The Politics Show
Sunday AM

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I am not obsessed with Sir Ben of Brown (and I'll keep calling him that, until the Queen opens her eyes), and I most certainly do not have pictures of him on my wall. I just think he's a very good, lovable and funny presenter and journalist, with redeeming good qualities.

Ben, you really must stop posting on these boards. Haven't you got presenting shifts to be getting on with?

Do grow up. Do you honestly think Sir Ben of Brown has got the time to be posting on internet boards? He does have his in-depth interviews to organise.

Well someone with real talent...Mr Evan Davies, is off to the Today programme, standing down as Economic Editor

Media Guardian

"And coming your way on News 24 today, a dangerous disease called malaria is killing lots of people in a place called Malaysia, Wayne Rooney has been told to go to classes to control his anger, and nasty people called poachers are killing lots of panda bears in China."

I truly don't see how Ellie Crisell could end up on N24 - unless she's been on already, in which case I haven't seen her on it yet.

Yeah she's been on. She doesn't write her own lines BTW. And don't mention her 'annoying voice', do you think she talks like that all the time?

Anyway, do any of you lot really think PM is being serious?

No - but it's like saying 'let's sprinkle our chocolate muffins with some stuffed olives'.

There is a fine line between being funnily sarcastic and ridiculously silly.

Not sarcastic at all - a simple troll. And I mean simple in every sense of the word.