[thechat] Re: Chile's tennis fighting for the medals
Dave Fitch
lists at dere-street.com
Mon Aug 23 01:52:06 CDT 2004
On 11:54 am +0100 martin wrote:
>> Ok: do you think the BBC's commentator's have been taking lessons on
>> partisanship from NBC?? They are absolutely driving me spare, the
>> idiot doing the rowing today would have been more use if he'd been in
>> the water...
>You've not been paying attention then - the BBC has *always* been
>partisan in their
>sports coverage.
Ok, confession time here. I just got my first tv about a month ago,
so all I have to compare it to is Radio 5, which I think is
relatively unbiased...
> I'm actually pretty OK about that, except that they behave more like
>the English Broadcasting Corporation - victorious Scots are usually
>described as
>"British", while victorious English competitors are usually
>described as "English".
>Conversely, losing English competitors are described as "British"
>(see also "British"
>football fans).
Yes, that canard... you get used to it to some degree...
Dave
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