BBC News Manchester

Good Heavens. I mean, really! Just tuned into the poop pump to cheer myself up with the usual tales of gloom, doom and misery and almost choked on my early evening kippers. Spat them right out I did, all over the trousers, took my valet ages to scrub the mess out of them. Quite ruined the weft.
Did you see Mr Edwardsons tie? Standards in public broadcasting have reached rock bottom. Just when you think it cant get any worse, the floor gives way.
I looked, looked again, took out the monacle, polished it and gazed, slack jawed at his tie. Adjusted the contrast, then the vertical hold, then called out Radio Rentals to give the set a magic thump hoping to dislodge the dust from the valves....... No avail. The tie remained the same. A knot so large that it would give an Egyptian Pharoh Pyramid envy. And as for the colours...... Made the images of my last colonoscopy seem positively restrained.
Dont they teach the correct method of constructing a Windsor knot?
I remember the days of Dinner Jackets and that nice Richard Baker. Always immaculate, half cut on Gin and still able to deliver a story about Armaggedon with a gentle smile and a twinkle in his eye. And old Reggie Bosonquet..... Face like a well loved oil skin jacket but his cravatte was always spotless.
Did you watch on Saturday? Pink for goodness sakes. A pink tie! On primetime. Dont recall the name of the chap but his eyebrows require a good trim. And as for this new relaxed news reading style. Legs akimbo with their clock weights dangling in the wind for all to see. I tell you, the fabric of society really is beggining to fray (just like my trousers. Curse this oily fish!) We had the same type of cavalier, couldnt care less attitude to neck wear back in my days at Oxford. Some Johnny wearing a pink cravatte. Caused a riot at the top table during supper. Hounded him out of Oxford. Bloody layabout. Think he became a playwrite.
The only pink thing that we should see on TV is a representation of the Globe when we ran the show, I tell you, everything was pink (except for those bits mismanaged by the French) And another bloody thing.. (Editors note. Vitriole cut due to it rambling on for another 10,000 bile spattered, terminally bewildered bloody words)

Is this a joke thread?

What is this thread all about why on earth did you start it

How can you consider the dress sense portrayed by our Guardians of news coverage to be jocular. National Service!!!!!!!! its the only bloody answer!!!!!!!!! teach them a thing or two about dress sense. I recall being in India during some squirmish or other. Japanease pounding at the gates. We never gave into pressure, always finished our breakfast and ALWAYS faced the enemy with a correctly knotted tie. I ask you... (Editors Note. Again edited due to the ramblings of a recently lobotomised former General trying to drum up readers for his new cook book " Shell shock and chips" )

Of course its a bloody joke!

Well thanks for wasting two seconds of my life!!

worst 'joke' ever

A joke even worse than "Why did the chicken cross the road?" If anyone can think of a worse joke than this, please respond. The BBC really are short on humour lately. Seriously though, does anyone else think that BBC News Coverage has dumbed down lately?

Promise me you will not contemplate doing stand up!!

Stand up ? In these trousers? with my shrapnel on the move? I promise!!! It is serious though. Is the BBC dumbing down its news coverage?

Of course. BBC males newsreaders ought to wear dinner jackets, bow-ties, speak in catt glarse accents; beginning the bulletins with "cordial greetings" and signing off with "toodle-bye chap and chapesses"-- see you in a jiffy <"plum in mouth" emoticon>

Anything not of that order is excreable, and anybody not observing these guidelines will be exiled to a life working as a BBC staffer (and sometime "member of the public") in Hull. Full of commoners, would suit those who can't tie Windsor knots down to the ground.

Pip-pip old bean!

Yes, and with the last bastion of true BBC quality and poise being removed from our screens (aka Moira Stuart), and replaced with leather jacket clad blondes in mini skirts who stand up to read the news or, at best, roll around on lavish sofas, I would say that the BBC in fact IS dumbing down its style of news presentation.........much to my disappointment, it has to be said.

That's why I cherish the last remnants of civility in BBC News, being the sanctity and professionalism that is BBC World, manned by the likes of Pillai, Badawi, Gowing and Jessel and - of course - Yates, where there is neither a leather jacket or sofa in sight!