[Boiler]

Are podcasts still considered an audio medium? The big bucks are now on YouTube so many are "video-first" formats, with the occasional bone thrown to listeners with a description of what the viewers can see.

Here is a prime example of the BBC.

Ed Gamble hosts the official visualised podcast for the ultimate game of trust and treachery.

Isn't that just a TV show?

Well, quite; one YT channel I follow does these 'visualised' podcasts which is a pity as I would listen to them in the car if they were audio-only...

Meanwhile, the BBC has changed the title of the article I linked to earlier and dropped the "hacking" from it.

[Killer Whale]

It's just people chatting, but with fucking enormous microphones in front of their faces. Because it's a podcast.

[Youngian]

Radio stations now stick cameras in studios, they're still radio shows not Later with Jools or the Graham Norton show.

[Samanfur]

They've been doing it for years. I remember Victoria Derbyshire doing it in the early 2010s.

[Youngian]

They've been doing it for years. I remember Victoria Derbyshire doing it in the early 2010s.

That was a TV studio show with audio broadcast on the radio. There are podcasts that make an effort with some sofas and guests knocking back some bevvies but its mainly heads behind mics in a studio.

[Boiler]

It's just people chatting, but with fucking enormous microphones in front of their faces. Because it's a podcast.

Ah yes: Reassuringly Large Microphones, the trademark of so many podcasts.

Unless your RLM says Neumann or AKG on it, you can fuck off.

[kreuzberger]

There still seems to be quite some outrage over the BBC's coverage of what is happening in Iran, "leaving it all" to the very tittersome, Omid Djalli. Yes, he is good and he might be well-informed. But, that is commentary and is not news.

The BBC were clearly struggling to verify the snippets of information which they were receiving and only a fool would blame them one bit for not running with what might have been utter nonsense.

Where the BBC have failed their audience, their BBC Persian team and the wonderful Lyce Dousyeeeria, is that they just kept schtumm. A brief explanation would have changed everything.