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Re:RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News by johneth on Saturday September 09, 2017 @05:39AM (#15206271)
Yeah, they do those things. But they make up a minority of their magazine content.

They still do a lot of 'hard news' stuff (along with the vast majority of their output which is straight 'normal news'). For example, just this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/g4s_brook_house_i...

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Re:RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News by hvvvggg on Saturday September 09, 2017 @06:01AM (#15206329)
> But they make up a minority of their magazine content.

No excuse. That crap is paid for with my taxes. They don't need to lower themselves to that standard.

That shit permeates, you know? The news side will look like that eventually.

I'd have thought taxes + license fee would be enough to avoid the race to the bottom, but here we are.

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Re:RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News by johneth on Saturday September 09, 2017 @08:56AM (#15206853)
Why not make a complaint where they can actually see it, then? http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/complain-online/

Try to steer their decisions with your voice.

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Re:RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News by dispo001 on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:59AM (#15217300)
REMEMBER TO USE CAPS!
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