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BBC needs a geography lesson
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The BBC has made much of losing its famous 'London-centric' attitude by moving a chunk of its people north of Watford.
But the 'comfort zone' attitude remains, with the BBC still seeing anything north of the M25 as something rather vague and quaint - an attitude which extends to its perception of its new home.
So, for the benefit of any BBC staff who are unsure of where they are - just sure they are there by force and not by choice - they should remember that they are NOT IN MANCHESTER!
They are actually located in Salford which is a separate ciity entirely.
Difficult I know, when all these northern places look the same, but make an effort BBC - more of your funding comes from the northern oiks than it does from your latte-slurping yoghurt-knitting metrosexual jessies you are used to hanging artound with in the Met Bar. Media URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127991/BBC-Breakfast-moves-Salford-dominated-North-West.html
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But the 'comfort zone' attitude remains, with the BBC still seeing anything north of the M25 as something rather vague and quaint - an attitude which extends to its perception of its new home.
So, for the benefit of any BBC staff who are unsure of where they are - just sure they are there by force and not by choice - they should remember that they are NOT IN MANCHESTER!
They are actually located in Salford which is a separate ciity entirely.
Difficult I know, when all these northern places look the same, but make an effort BBC - more of your funding comes from the northern oiks than it does from your latte-slurping yoghurt-knitting metrosexual jessies you are used to hanging artound with in the Met Bar. Media URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127991/BBC-Breakfast-moves-Salford-dominated-North-West.html
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How does more money come from the north?
BBc has wasted a minimum of £440m moving for no good reason and is now a provincial broadcaster. People refuse to go to Salford and the BBC have had to maintain a London prescence because a lot of their stars refused to move.
They may be in the City of Salford but they will soon find its actualy the back of beyond.
BBc has wasted a minimum of £440m moving for no good reason and is now a provincial broadcaster. People refuse to go to Salford and the BBC have had to maintain a London prescence because a lot of their stars refused to move.
They may be in the City of Salford but they will soon find its actualy the back of beyond.
EvianBaby - that's fair enough. If people ask me where i am from, i say Stoke, although I actually live in Trentham, which is outside the city itself.
But I am not a publicly funded broadcast organisation spending millions of pounds to lose my London bias, and then using a generic rough area to describe where I am now, when it is a clearly defined city with a name.
It rather defeats the object of the exercise.
But I am not a publicly funded broadcast organisation spending millions of pounds to lose my London bias, and then using a generic rough area to describe where I am now, when it is a clearly defined city with a name.
It rather defeats the object of the exercise.
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