{"id":5471,"date":"2016-05-28T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=5471"},"modified":"2016-05-30T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T12:20:01","slug":"birtspeak-2-0","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/birtspeak-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Birtspeak 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Newnham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This from a Jan 2016 edition of \u201cPrivate Eye\u201d. I think it means a TC1,2,3 salesperson.<\/p>\n

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Birtspeak is a very long running column which carries examples of mad BBC quotations. It originated – not surprisingly – by quoting Mr – sorry, Lord – Birt’s pronouncements. Everyone thought that would go away with the man, but it turns out not to be true, hence Birtspeak 2.0.<\/p>\n

Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\n

But does anyone understand it? <\/p>\n

Chris Booth<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Back in the 1990s,  Post Production & Graphic Design issued a multi page \u201cMission Statement\u201d following several re-organisations.<\/p>\n

Copies were issued in the Tea Room and we all sat down and read it in silence.<\/p>\n

After ten minutes solid reading, the whole room looked up, and, as one, said \u201cWhat the f**k does that mean\u201d \u2013 it was totally unintelligible!<\/p>\n

Albert Barber<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Also by the way, in similar vein but about Radio and how they say \u201c\u2026Thank you, Brian, and now from me Fred Blogs over to you Brian\u2026.Thank you Fred etc\u2026" to each other so many times –  and some of the odd news items etc of the (radio) world.<\/p>\n

Hugh Sheppard<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Indeed Albert is right about all this. Is a word of thanks sufficient to a weatherperson for filling their slot?  NO!  Of course not!  It has to be \u201cThanks very much\u201d or – my own bȇte noire<\/i> \u2013 \u201cThanks very much INDEED\u201d.  Not that I can complain as much as I used to, having nailed most of the \u201cToday\u201d programme presenters individually, who really have taken it on board, but I\u2019ve not yet had a word with Peter White of \u201cIn Touch\u201d and \u201cYou and Yours\u201d.  I otherwise admire him as a broadcaster – indeed without needing to qualify that with any allowance for his being blind.<\/p>\n

And while we are on the subject of executives …<\/i><\/h3>\n

Noel Edmonds as a mock BBC executive (30 May 2016) tells viewers “… By watching Noel\u2019s House Party and telling your friends about it, you are reminding them of a bygone age when we of the BBC had an entertainment department! This was closed down when we ran out of ideas of how to entertain the public in a way in which they found entertaining….”<\/p>\n

Pat Heigham<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When Noel says: \u201c…Some clueless executives are dragging the BBC down. They have no idea what makes good TV or what people want to watch…. \u201d<\/p>\n

– this reminds me that it’s not just BBC execs who suffer from creative blindness. I believe that MGM’s head people wanted to drop “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz”.<\/p>\n

Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\n

And over at Paramount, they wanted to drop “Flash Bang Wallop” from the film of “Half a Sixpence”.<\/p>\n

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