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by: J. P. Gilliver - Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:52 UTC

This BBC obsession (maybe others too) with having a big red banner
across the bottom of the screen on news coverage is really beginning to
piss me off. It has for some time - I think I first became really
irritated by it during the lockdown, when they always took far too long
to turn it off during briefings. Now, I'm watching the lunar landing
things online - a three view screen, coming from NASA (so they're not
kidding anyone anyway: the banner reminds me of when they obscured
TVAM's banner with their own for a Princess Diana something all those
years ago); all the BBC red stripe does is a pretty good job of
obscuring a large part of two of the views.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

She didn't strike me as much of a reader. It's never a good sign if someone
has a leaflet with a bookmark in it. - Sarah Millican in Rdio Times, 17-23
November 2012

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Subject	Author
Banner-itis	J. P. Gilliver