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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Enterprising young BBC journo Stuart Pinfold has produced a nice map showing how impressively broad is the BBC’s network of international coverage. Correspondents, reporters and stringers show up on the map as little dots and triangles.
So what does it feel like to […]
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Can I suggest it is time to call off the plagiarism police? Case in point. Journalism professor admits plagiarism. Yup, it is a neat headline. So was this a Jayson Blair-style rip-off? Hardly. In fact it wasn’t plagiarism at all.
The plagiarism in question was three quotes (lifted from this piece) included in a curmudgeonly op-ed in […]
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I first became aware of Danie Krugel through a review by Anton Harber of an edition of South African current affairs show Carte Blanche. It was an investigation into the whereabouts of missing victims of a paedophile murderer. Harber said:
“I am not sure what Carte Blanche was doing in this story, but it is not […]
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Demonstrating, perhaps, my MBO (Master of the Bleeding Obvious*) skills, here are my recent contributions to coverage of the ongoing Madeleine McCann saga. From the Associated Press:
And playing commentator tag in Time with Charlie Beckett:
For earlier posts - from May - see here and here.
*Basil Fawlty: Next contestant, Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Specialist subject - the bleeding […]
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Mark Thompson writes about trust in the BBC. After condemning the children’s programme editor who apparently believed a poll had been rigged and changed the name of a cat (yes, really), Thompson lets off senior BBC manager Alan Yentob for filming reaction shots to interviews he didn’t actually show up for. Yes, according to the […]
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On BBC Radio 3 last night talking about the ethics of TV editing - if you want to listen, it’s here.
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