adrian monck

Month: November 2006

  • Jeremy Vine

    Jeremy Vine is to be the new face of the prime-time Panorama, soon to be available as a compact. [MG] Vine has reinvented himself pretty successfully on Radio 2. Hours of daily vocal exercise have relaxed the clipped Paxman-esque diction that plagued Vine’s TV persona, and – in the un-Paxman-esque enthusiasm – you can detect…

  • Stern contrast

    Not often you see British journalism lauded over American, but the UK media’s cheerleading for the Stern review gets two thumbs up in the Columbia Journalism Review. Click on to suspend your disbelief…[CJR]

  • Washington views and news

    Over lunch today someone just back from the U.S. was telling of a very recently cancelled eating engagement with none other than Karl Rove. The secretary who called to reschedule explained politely that the mid-term elections were taking up more time than Mr Rove had anticipated. Unsurprisingly, U.S. politics features heavily on the new Channel…

  • BBC News

    Amanda Farnsworth is leaving for sport, creating an internal daytime vacancy for Peter Horrocks to fill. She blogged it this afternoon. Horrocks promoted Kevin Bakhurst to oversee News 24 so here’s my not-so-radical suggestion. Why not hand control of the 1 and the 6 to whoever is strand editing on News 24? Spend the extra…