Can audiences ever be wrong?

At the BBC Editor’s blog Rod McK­en­zie asks if the Ross and Brand case is an open and shut case?

When we star­ted cov­er­ing the story on News­beat — the audi­ence response was run­ning two-to-one in Ross’s and Brand’s favour — now it’s swelled to six-to-one.

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Live blogging: Future of Public Service Broadcasting

Lon­don Busi­ness School: David Cur­rie, out­go­ing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital reg­u­lator) chair­man. Con­tinue read­ing

The Dutch solution to the Jonathan Ross problem

Ronald PlasterkShould pub­lic ser­vice broad­casters pay vastly inflated salar­ies to enter­tain­ers, in oppos­i­tion to every other branch of pub­lic ser­vice? Dutch cul­ture min­is­ter Ron­ald Plasterk doesn’t think so.

He wants to limit the cash handed over to presenters on state tele­vi­sion. Accord­ing to Hol­ly­wood Reporter, Plasterk believes: Con­tinue read­ing