My first experience of freeview ;-)
 

In article , Java Jive
wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:49:05 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

And these days, who else is thowing light into the dark corners like
what some councillors and councils get up to? Newham, Tower Hamlets,
Doncaster, etc, etc. The daily and local papers cannae be bothered
with actually checking such things any more. Cheaper to lift PR off
the wire services or from the pages of competitors.

In the late 60s / early 70s, PE were the only news organisation
investigating the widespread corruption of local councils by John
Poulson's outfit. Only very late on was their sustained reporting of it
picked up by the national press and TV and the affair blown into the
major scandal, shock, horror, that we remember. If it hadn't been for
PE, I wonder how much longer it would have gone on, and how many more
city centres been blighted?

Yes. Similar situations still repeat. e.g. the 'Donnygate' saga. And I
expect other councils to join this list of "shock revelations" by the rest
of the press in due course. What is amazing is the way we *still* get
situations where politicians and councils get up to 'no good' for *years*
being reported in PE and ignored in the national press and TV. I guess we
have to put that down to a mix of fear of m'learned friends, sheer
ignorance by journalists, and not suiting the interests of the owners of
the UK press.

I must say I found the assertions recently that Hislop had a bias towards
the Tories particularly crackers given the things PE has been reporting
about Cameron, Osbourne, and the rest of Lord Snooties Pals. Vodafone
anyone?... And also the 'big four' accountant co's... If you want to
*really* know what is going on, read PE. Otherwise you'll have to wait for
years and hope the rest of the press finally catch on. :-)

But as you say, this has been going on for decades. Not just Poulson. Also
Marples and his making money out of road building whilst employing Beeching
to axe the risk of competition. And other examples too many to recall, of
all 'political colours'.

I've got some of those flexible gramophone records that they used to
put on the cover in the 1960s.

I think that Lintone have now gone out of the biz of making those. I'm
impressed you've kept your 1960s ones. I have a couple from later
decades, and IIRC at least one Xmas CD. But in general I found them
less interesting than the actual magazine.

I think I may still have a few of those. Certainly I still have the
compilation LP. Some of the sketches were hilarious. I can still laugh
at the sendups of Enoch Powell, David Attenborough, etc.

Given my druthers, I'd *far* rather have a complete set of The Beatles Xmas
discs for their fan club. Anyone chucking those out, throw them in my
direction, please! 8-]

Slainte,

Jim

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My first experience of freeview ;-)
 

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:49:40 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

In article , John J Armstrong
wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:37:22 +0100, Jim Lesurf
wrote:

Can you not get either Angus or Durris? They both come in fairly well here,
but we are up a hill. I presume, though, you in the part of Dundee shaded
from them by the Tay slope

I'm in Lochee Road, right under the Law. I did an auto-scan and
nothing else came through, not that I expected it to.

Thanks for your help, and your info on the multiplexes.

John

My first experience of freeview ;-)
 

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:57:50 +0100, Java Jive
wrote:

In the late 60s / early 70s, PE were the only news organisation
investigating the widespread corruption of local councils by John
Poulson's outfit. Only very late on was their sustained reporting of
it picked up by the national press and TV and the affair blown into
the major scandal, shock, horror, that we remember. If it hadn't been
for PE, I wonder how much longer it would have gone on, and how many
more city centres been blighted?

OMG someone else remembers???

I knew at least one of the journos who was feeding them information on
the likes of T Dan Smith

oops are the Special Branch going to track me down now?

My first experience of freeview ;-)
 

On 17/08/10 09:44, Mark wrote:

- Digital teletext seems as slow as the analogue variety.

This is the one thing that really depends on the speed of your box.

Back around 2003 or 2004 I bought a couple of Netgem/BT iPlayer boxes (not to
be confused with BBC iPlayer!)

http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/iplayer.html

I've since upgraded their software to iPlayer+. They are easily the best
Freeview boxes I've used, and the digital teletext access (for example on the
BBC red button service) is pretty much instantaneous!