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The BBC: focus groups and phoney accountability
After talking to 96 people for three hours, the BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons writes: Performance in News and Current Affairs is rightly seen to be strong but the BBC is not always serving everyone on the audience as it should, with those who fall within the category of ‘low BBC approvers’ perceiving a…
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The biggest stories you won’t see headlined
The biggest stories you won’t see headlining the news are Germany and southern Europe’s growing dependence on Russia. And China’s advance into Africa. Where four decades of Warsaw Pact weaponry failed, gas and oil pipelines are succeeding. Russia’s influence runs right up to the Rhine – and where communism couldn’t win converts, cash and a…
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Facebook for old people
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Policy Exchange vs. Newsnight: Round 2
Here is Policy Exchange chairman Charles Moore using his Telegraph column to attack Newsnight editor Peter Barron in round 2 of the popular Think Tank vs. BBC battle. Moore, a former editor of the Spectator, the Sunday and the Daily Telegraph does not do himself any favours, as you can see. Over the summer, Policy…