26-07-2023, 04:02 PM
(26-07-2023, 08:17 AM)Scrotnig Wrote: He's an actual expert in his field, and in this case is correcting an inaccuracy. Not remotely inappropriate.And sadly this is where we have arrived. We now have a UK TV station explicitly LYING to viewers and using the defence of ‘debate’. Quite depressing really. We’ve sunk so low in broadcasting thanks to an utterly, utterly toothless Ofcom.
To the posters suggesting experienced meteorologists should not be challenging outright lies - hang your heads in shame. Anyone with extensive experience in their profession would speak out in defence of facts if they were faced with inaccurate nonsense that risked seriously compromising their work.
If I decided to build a house made of chocolate that melted in the heat, I’m fairly sure it would be completely acceptable for other house builders to criticise my workmanship. If I responded with ‘you’re not entitled to join this debate’ I would be laughed out of the room.
A sorry, sorry state of affairs.
Not to worry. Despite the rhetoric from GB news folk on social, the channel DOES NOT perform well. We all know this.
“We’re amazingly popular because we got more viewers than eternally loss making Sky News” is fairly lame.