It’s very much a news channel word.

Cheers, Steve.

Yes.

The positioning is called a lower third and the actual item is a graphic or chyron.

It’s called a chyron in the US and a graphic here (I got corrected by a broadcast engineer just this is morning and prefer the word ‘chyron’ actually)

old enough to remember this kind of Cold War propaganda

(not a Corbyn fan, don't care about the hat — but there seems to be a clear institutional bias at the BBC, and lack of accountability, which should concern everyone)

Please do take five minutes to complain about this to the BBC (and it really does only take five minutes). And demand a reply. This is the big advantage of having a broadcaster funded in the way the BBC is funded. They are accountable to us and they have an obligation to explain themselves.

It does not seem to be the case.

Get the helium.

They’ll just play ear-splitting white noise whenever Zak Polanski is mentioned.

Thanks to @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @iainsol.bsky.social for originally flagging this up.

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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There’s every possibility that is true.

Use that kind of chyron or parrot things Reform says? The first no. The second yes.

Oh, I’ve started my stop watch.

Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining... In an attempt to maintain balance, the BBC is letting obvious lies go unchallenged.

I wrote about its coverage of the ICE murders back in January open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

The BBC has a masochistic streak. Look at how it reports on any BBC scandal.

If I’m going to write about it, I have to at least try to get some comment on it!

Yeah. It’s… not good.

I’ve also broken my rule on not tweeting anymore to ask Henry Zeffman directly what it’s about. We’ll see if I get a reply.

I’ve asked a couple of people I know within BBC News and they were baffled by it.

Ah, you see, you might actually face consequences.

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It’s not fake. I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. 06.20 in today’s episode of BBC Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Precisely that.

I went and watched the segment on iPlayer. This is absolutely wild. It’s basically doing a free micro political broadcast for Reform during BBC Breakfast.

I did mine. Thankfully I don’t have to this time. Just act as cheerleader.

I’d smoke her a kipper but she’d hate it.

I see you.

Funnily enough, the kid *really* wants an Ace Rimmer t-shirt.

(There is *some* colour coding for breaks and exams but I didn’t go the whole hog and assign a colour to every subject)