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Sorry, is the story in the Telegraph true or not? You totally failed to confirm or deny the story.

Jeremy,

Is your fantastic new launch anything to do with the coming clean about our economic situation.

My guess is no.

Telling an economic story is what you do best at the bbc so i suppose it's best you continue to do just that. As long as you don't come clean about central banking, fractional reserve banking the reasons we have boom and bust cycles and such then it is just a story that you report.

I have seen very little about the stopping of the publication of the m3 index, one of the most important and significant economic decisions made for years.

Instead just the constant repeating of the slogan for the recession 'credit crunch'. Why no simple reporting about how the central banking system is causing this boom bust cycle of theft.

When will an editor at the bbc have the guts to tell the truth about their area of 'speciality'.

Jeremy:
That is good that the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ puts out 11 hours a day across the entire Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ networks for Business programmes.

what would the people of England do If
one of there owen was inslaved in canada by the R.C.M.P. sea-thiss and its goverment
profile of this very ture KING !
profile on web page ....Imeem.com under the name .. sir lord Kevin Blair Chase
read it and be sher that it is the truth !

Yes but the problem with the way the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ reports business news is this - every show seems to take the view that the consumer is always right and any business making profits is greedy and robbing the public.

We have some truly inventive minds in this country but the odd splash of Branson and Dyson on the news does nothing to diminish the fact that no-one ever looks at why (for example) energy companies might need large profits (just how are they to build the next generation of plants if we hobble their profitability?).

In the US companies like Microsoft and Apple are celebrated as part of the national success story, here you have to be a genial 'mad inventor' type to get on TV.

And although this isn't in your remit, when was the last time any British product got as much free publicity on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News Channel and main bulletins as Apple's iPhone did?

And you surely can see the correlation between the ever-rising house prices and the endless house makeover shows the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ churns out? Pushing the message that you;re no-one unless you own a couple of 'projects' which are 'guaranteed' to build you a tasty pension.

Except of course that was all guff and those of us who said so at the time have been proven right.

The first generation of the device is largely accepted as being below par (and the second's not exactly great) yet it got acres of fawning coverage on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. I genuinely can't recall British success stories getting anywhere near as much coverage.

Instead we're left with 'pretty' news readers trying to do a bad Paxman impression 'tackling' any firm who dare announce profits that week.

Your people are spread too thin. You really need a dedicated business and economics magazine programme. Covering more than the top stories or the daily movements of the equity markets, it would cover the news of the week from UK and abroad. and from all areas of business; large and small.

Jeff Randall's show on Sky does the business (sorry) with its A-list guests (Rose, Sorell et al), but falls down because it is too UK focused and lacks analysis. There is what the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ should be doing.

I just curl up and go to sleep when faced with blogs that are filled to the brim with "incredibly exciting" superlatives.

Please can the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ do what it is supposed to do - inform- and let us, the audience, decide just how good, bad or indifferent your efforts are?

So the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ dithered and dithered and dithered over the question of a recession. It quoted so many sources of the word recession without once reaching for a dictionary. So the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ goes on and on about mortgage holders seemingly ignoring the huge numbers of its license payers who cannot afford anything better than a let. So the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ rattles on aimlessly about car owners and the cost of fuel not once getting to the nitty gritty on substandard public transport. So the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ proclaims its rights to live Premiership football on FiveLive when it could be covering all the lesser leagues (i.e. non-league) with passion and commitment.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ seems to believe that a concern for minority groups somehow justifies diversity when it actually achieves nothing of the sort.

In short the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is the sum of its parts - a pretty mediocre and self interested bunch.

Lay-people need to be kept informed by specialist-writers. The economy and real business issues have a huge impact on people's lives: a lively forum which informs and educates is a god-send. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is constantly striving for excellence in its analysis and news broadcasting. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ journalists have obviously open minds and the critical sense and are governed by a sense of balance; right and wrong. Concern for minority groups shows wonderful humility. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ grows fro strength to strength.

Lay-people need to be kept informed by specialist-writers. The economy and real business issues have a huge impact on people's lives: a lively forum which informs and educates is a god-send. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is constantly striving for excellence in its analysis and news broadcasting. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ journalists have obviously open minds and the critical sense and are governed by a sense of balance; right and wrong. Concern for minority groups shows wonderful humility. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ grows from strength to strength.

More cutomer interactivity?
We actually pay a license fee to pay for people to report the news/act in dramas/give help and advice etc.
Yet again the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ decides that we, the public, should do the job they are paid to do.
Soon the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ won't need any staff.
No drama (except remakes of the same few Dickens/Hardy/Austen stories that they remake every 5 years cyclically), news where the public supply the story and footage, tv where we supply the house/junk for selling/talent, and now we are expected to supply the financial knowledge for a multi-national corporation paid for by us, but to which we are not shareholders.
How about less interactivity, and more earning the jobs-for-life with high salaries and great pensions.

#9.

"Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ journalists have obviously open minds..."

Journalists are journalists and I have yet to meet one who has an "open mind". The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has nepotism deep within its ranks. Much of its "talent" is drawn from its long list of local media, too often not on ability but on how a particular person fits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ diversity profile.

Too often the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ misses opportunities to dig deep into news stories, a skill it once excelled at. Now its output is indistinguishable from that of the many cable and satellite channels. There is no longer a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ seal of approval on its products, or an attempt to stick to formats that cater for its wide ranging audience unless they happen to be minorities of which the Government approve. We have Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish output but no specific English output. We even have an Asian network and yet we have nothing for "working classes", the "low paid", the "disadvantaged", the "disabled", the "unemployed" etc.

Everything about the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ appears to reflect Government edicts and yet it is "owned" not by politicians but by license payers. Perhaps those who claim to protect the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Charter should begin to reflect who their real "masters" are and take not of what "they" want - not what politicians think is good for us.

It had been a year and a half since the sub-prime loan bubble bursted. Frankly I am disappointed with likes of Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Forbes etc on their covergage of this financial crisis. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ too.

There just wasn't enough 'investigation' for better and clearer analysis which hopefully lead to better education of the investing public. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is better placed than the others for more honest reporting simply because it does not depend heavily on advertising revenue from firms in the finance industry.

At this juncture, there are just too many intellectual hypocrites when defending their 'august' reputations are shouting the loudest. It is disturbing to see ex-Fed Chairman Greenspan defending the US Fed benign role in the sub-prime loan bubble. All it required was an understanding of Game Theory analytics of Nobel Prize Economists to figure out that lack of supervision of bankers will lead to no good.

We are deluding ourselves to think that banks should be privilege beneficiaries of 'free market' principles. In this age of fiat money, banks and alike insitutions are nothing but the Central Bank's agent for money creation. We do not need a Central Bank who is not pro-active in preventing financial bubbles.

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