Do they actually have to, or is it just more that the BBC is seen as unimpeachable and no politician could credibly avoid it?

If the latter, I'm curious if you think there's a potential for those norms to be eroded and politicians to start shrugging it off as "fake news" the way the GOP now does with, say, the New York Times.

The BBC has been biased for like ever, always giving the Torys the edge and avoiding our Welsh, Irish and Scottish party's like the plague.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/...brexit-debate/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ope...um-new-report/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/our...-its-failings/

The "post-Savile" BBC has become beholden to the conservative government.
ITV has always been a joke.
Channel 4 still do good work.

Sure a national media can be biased but I think it also provides a leveling force for a country. Our CBC is obviously left leaning but it still provides a national voice, at least to some degree.

I’d be curious to see research if my hypothesis is true.

Surrounded by false idols and throwing stones from glass houses is how this ends.

https://twitter.com/J_amesp/status/1104034750853976069

Even so, I'd take the BBC over American corporate news media in a heartbeat.

I mean there's always BBC Scotland if you want more news specific to Scotland. It's not ideal as tends to be Scottish news from an English perspective at times, meaning that the SNP tends to be pretty aggressively maligned but it is better than nothing.

Apprehended means captured. A lot of people don’t know that.

i wonder what "Q" people have to say about the sex slavery woman being so close to all the q Heroes. do they think trump was undercover friends with her so he could expose the sex ring, all along?

but the judge in that trial is the same judge that has allowed roger stone to break his gag order like 5 times including threats and her and witnesses.

my guess is she doesnt think manny is that bad of a dude and besides she wouldnt want to come off as biased or retaliatory so he gets like 47 months concurrent.

when I was in college plenty of kids never went to class and still passed or even got A/B. and math was one of the best classes for that as it was usually mid term and final. study up a few days before and hope for the best. or even better show up for the TA session just before the test and they tell you pretty much what to study.

anyway, my school was pretty tough but there were some really smart ppl there.

I had to take calculus in college and it was legitimately hard. The “professor” barely spoke English and everyone just crammed the last week before the final.

Can we get a moratorium on college grade talks?

It's dumb on its own, but it's also inviting everyone that went to college to relay a useless personal anecdote as if it relates to Fordham in the 60s.

Uke, are you even paying attention to who’s showing up or does attendance count? My experience with math, comp sci, stats, op management and classes like that is there is always a contingent of people that basically doesn’t show up or listen in lecture and still get As. Some are ringers and some just find the material intuitive.

I was TA for hundreds of students too and sometimes it’s obvious the student never showed up in class because he (almost always he) solved the problem with a method not taught in class.

For people with financial resources, tons and tons of help are available that makes it a lot easier to get a decent grade. It’s a lot easier to get an A- when there is someone telling you exactly what you need to learn for exams and constantly evaluate where you are and what you need to focus on to maximize your grade. I am sure some people in this thread have been offered 100+ per hour to tutor kids. Some people really don’t give a **** about the cost and can get help that’s simply unavailable elsewhere.

And if you’re willing to cheat and got Trump’s resources, I am sure you can hire people to just write A level papers for you.

For the above reasons, I just can’t be sure Trump got a below average GPA at UPenn.

I am just hedging here. I am more than happy to lol if Trump graduated with like 1.5 GPA but I don’t think we should give him credit for earning above average grades.

I think it’s better to just LOL at Trump for failing to crack dean’s list despite resources available to him rather than insist he couldn’t possibly have gotten an above average GPA.

I went to a college once. It was fun.

I mean, I participated, but the derail is AIDS. Trump is an idiot, we really don’t need any academic confirmation.

I would think that math would be the most likely subject where one would find people who just don't show up and get As.

I'm pretty sure just about everyone on here could do that at some point and the only difference would be how far they could go with that method. Some probably find it too tough some time in high school. Others could make it all the way through college.

There is no subjectivity. There are books and tons of resources that show you how to solve the problems.

Uke's point is that it's not at all impossible, but it doesn't happen that much because the smart kids generally go to class. I'd agree with the first part, but in my admittedly anecdotal experience there were lots of exceptions to the second part. Nevertheless, there is probably a good bit of truth in his observation.

I'd imagine it would be be way harder in something like English literature where the best students probably develop a sense of what the Prof wants to hear by actually going to class. With something like that, the correlation between best students and ones who show up is going to be much stronger than math.

I mean she probably did the slaving and we'll find out eventually, but CNN article this morning has her saying she got out of the spa business a few years ago and is just a typical pure as driven snow Trumper job creator who is also a victim of the real slavers that corrupted the business she started.

I think we're also still waiting on actual sex trafficking charges to be brought, as it's apparently not infrequent that FL cops shake down rub and tug joints to arrest sex workers and then say "Sex trafficking!" emptily to gin up sentiment for themselves.

This is a good point. Sex trafficking is so often used as a excuse to attack and harass consensual sex workers.

Agreed....

But as the poster said above the BBC has moved even more right in recent years.

every single post from you is whining about the content. first you complained about suzzer, then there was another thing I cant remember, and now this.

I got an idea, stop trying to police the thread and maybe make a post about whatever topic you prefer to talk about.

Just a quick observation about this. Classes get a lot smaller in competitive comp sci programs really fast. By third year or second half of second year, you’ve already filtered out most students that can’t learn the material on his/her own.

Similar sorting happens in business school with competent Excel monkeys signing up for operations management and advanced corporate finance while others pick stuff like “Human Resources management.”

In law school, well, how do you feel about “codes” like securities regulation, ERISA, and tax?

These women were not consensual sex workers, my dude.

People who washout at Excel are probably just as likely to be too smart to put up with all that BS as too dumb to be able to figure it out.

It's like not being able to stomach the "math" in an economics class.