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    From JMB99@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 25 22:07:46 2023
    I can understand running a loop of the same clips of video in coverage
    like the release of the hostages but why can't they time-stamp the
    pictures so we know when they taken. Though BBC News has left a
    "LATEST" time-stamp on the pictures for ages.

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to mb@nospam.net on Sat Nov 25 22:33:11 2023
    In message <ujtr7i$2uu5e$1@dont-email.me> at Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:07:46,
    JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> writes
    I can understand running a loop of the same clips of video in coverage
    like the release of the hostages but why can't they time-stamp the
    pictures so we know when they taken. Though BBC News has left a
    "LATEST" time-stamp on the pictures for ages.


    I've been saying news footage should be time (and date) stamped for
    ages. Nobody's interested. The news channel is very obviously aimed at
    dippers, not long-term viewers.

    Another irritant: "designated as a terrorist organisation by the UK". If they're going to say it at all, it should be (as it was occasionally at
    the start) "by the UK and some other countries", or similar; only
    mentioning the UK gives an incorrect impression. But I'd certainly live
    with that one if I could have timestamps. (And a few more maps and other
    such info. - such as figures - rather than a talking head _in vision_,
    which adds nothing at all.)
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Advertising is legalized lying. - H.G. Wells

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  • From JMB99@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Sun Nov 26 10:15:41 2023
    On 25/11/2023 22:33, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    Another irritant: "designated as a terrorist organisation by the UK". If they're going to say it at all, it should be (as it was occasionally at
    the start) "by the UK and some other countries", or similar; only
    mentioning the UK gives an incorrect impression. But I'd certainly live
    with that one if I could have timestamps. (And a few more maps and other
    such info. - such as figures - rather than a talking head _in vision_,
    which adds nothing at all.)


    They do sometimes say something like that.

    When this all started, the Daily Mail and others kept attacking the BBC
    for calling the HAMAS terrorists 'militants' even though they were doing
    the same themselves!

    I noticed today that the Daily Mail report of yesterday hostage release
    still keeps calling the HAMAS terrorists 'militants' - I am sure not
    just the Daily Mail though the Guardian probably calls them Freedom
    Fighters.



    It is probably better to timestamp the footage with actual date and time
    rather than "LATEST".

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to mb@nospam.net on Sun Nov 26 14:49:56 2023
    In message <ujv5sd$37odl$1@dont-email.me> at Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:15:41,
    JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> writes
    []
    It is probably better to timestamp the footage with actual date and
    time rather than "LATEST".

    Of course it would be. But that would mean admitting.

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    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    As individuals, politicians are usually quite charming, so it is quite hard to dislike them, but in most cases, it is worth making the effort.
    - Mark Williams (UMRA), 2013-4-26

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