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Rob17896 · March 19, 2019

Am I the only person who is sick of the tiniest tweak to an iphone or the new gaming console from Google being reported as technology news? They are not revolutions, they are not news. The PR machines of those companies have the BBC as well as commercial channels eating from the palm of their hand.
Products need to be marketed at the expense of the seller, not the state (us)

Frang · March 19, 2019

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GrumpyBlue · March 19, 2019

ijjysmith · March 19, 2019

Rob17896 · March 19, 2019

ijjysmith said:

The revolution is not going to start here is it?

coollino · March 19, 2019

Rob17896 said:
Am I the only person who is sick of the tiniest tweak to an iphone or the new gaming console from Google being reported as technology news? They are not revolutions, they are not news. The PR machines of those companies have the BBC as well as commercial channels eating from the palm of their hand.
Products need to be marketed at the expense of the seller, not the state (us)

Would you do it for £1 billion?

Tubey · March 19, 2019

Rob17896 said:
Am I the only person who is sick of the tiniest tweak to an iphone or the new gaming console from Google being reported as technology news? They are not revolutions, they are not news. The PR machines of those companies have the BBC as well as commercial channels eating from the palm of their hand.
Products need to be marketed at the expense of the seller, not the state (us)

Because it very clearly is.

Rob17896 · March 19, 2019

coollino said:
Would you do it for £1 billion?

Do what? The channels are not being paid, they are filling in space instead of paying journalists to do a proper job.

Rob17896 · March 19, 2019

Tubey said:
Because it very clearly is.

By that standard any product is entitled to free exposure. It is not news, it is a product launch. Marketing and pr brainwash us to believing this crap is important. Not slagging you, none of us are immune. I expect our state broadcaster/news channel to have higher standards.

GwladysPhil · March 20, 2019

Have you been on the lemo with Tony Bellew tonight?

Rob17896 · March 20, 2019

GwladysPhil said:
Have you been on the lemo with Tony Bellew tonight?

Funny you should say that.. no, by myself.

Frang · March 20, 2019

GwladysPhil said:
Have you been on the lemo with Tony Bellew tonight?

phil?

GwladysPhil · March 20, 2019

BigBlueNose said:
phil?

Check his tweets.

Tubey · March 20, 2019

Rob17896 said:
By that standard any product is entitled to free exposure. It is not news, it is a product launch. Marketing and pr brainwash us to believing this crap is important. Not slagging you, none of us are immune. I expect our state broadcaster/news channel to have higher standards.

It's quite literally possibly heralding the redundancy of console gaming. It's big technology news. If they didn't cover it, I'd be wondering what the hell they were doing.