Listening to the covid inquiry

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Listening to the covid inquiry and almost every time there is an expletive it is followed by an apology from the broadcaster. Can they please stop apologising and let us listen to what is being said.
 
Anyone offended would have switched over already surely, so what is the point of repeating the same apology over and over again? And it's always after repeating an expletive, not a warning beforehand. Considering the nature of the topic being discussed these repeated warnings are just a bit daft is all I am saying.
 
I read a while ago a lot (if not all) of the EU countries inquisitorial legal systems have completed their covid inquiries. But in our adversarial system the legal gravy train has only just started to roll. It's pretty obvious the government was not prepared and those in power were incapable of making the correct decisions. But will this inquiry prevent a future reoccurrence, not a chance. The same old boys network will rise to the top of political parties and the same government led corruption will vastly inflate any project costs because that is what this country has done for decades.
 
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robj20 said:
Pointless. Nothing will come of it. Some people will get told off. Couple of weeks later all will be forgotten and they'll do it all again.
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It does need an inquiry but in a general sense I hate how much is based on criticising with the benefit of hindsight, however when it comes to stuff like PPE contracts, etc. that definitely needs investigating - there is almost certainly corruption and fraud involved there resulting in the misappropriation of millions if not billions of tax payer money.

EDIT: And as above poster mentioned lessons won't be learnt :(
 
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Rroff said:
It does need an inquiry but in a general sense I hate how much is based on criticising with the benefit of hindsight, however when it comes to stuff like PPE contracts, etc. that definitely needs investigating - there is almost certainly corruption and fraud involved there resulting in the misappropriation of millions if not billions of tax payer money.

EDIT: And as above poster mentioned lessons won't be learnt :(
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I agree. They'll learn how to better rip everyone off in the future and not get caught.
 
If they could be bothered to police the swearing properly then the broadcast would be on a short delay and someone ready with the beeper to blank the bad words out. They could do this 30 years ago, so why not now .... ffs.
 
peterwalkley said:
If they could be bothered to police the swearing properly then the broadcast would be on a short delay and someone ready with the beeper to blank the bad words out. They could do this 30 years ago, so why not now .... ffs.
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Because it's being treated as a live parliamentary broadcast not one with someone in street. There are/were differences in how they handled "live" from a public place and "live" in a studio or other "controlled" environment even 30 years ago. The channel the broadcast is on also plays a part as IIRC a news channel or Radio broadcast has slightly different rules compared to a general channel such as BBC one in the evening, let alone a channel that might be expected to have a lot of children and younger people watching.

Re the apologies, I think that's because the broadcasting regulations are such that if they don't apologise in addition to giving the warnings there is an increased chance of a complaint potentially being upheld.
So they're making clear that there may be swearing, that it's part of the evidence that is being entered into the "public record" and then coving themselves with the apology the same way they would if it was a live interview in a studio.

In short there are editorial, regulatory, and legal reasons for it.
 
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