adrian monck

Month: September 2007

  • Ethics of television editing discussion

    On BBC Radio 3 last night talking about the ethics of TV editing – if you want to listen, it’s here.

  • Public information – it’s not rocket science

    One of my favourite pub-bore topics is the importance of public information. And I like collecting examples. Here is one from Richard Feynman’s conclusion to the report on the disaster which destroyed the space shuttle Challenger in 1986: If a reasonable launch schedule is to be maintained, engineering often cannot be done fast enough to…

  • Jeremy Paxman: regional news fan

    [J]ust look at almost any regional news programme, with its tawdry catalogue of misfortune, recited in deadbeat vocabulary. You’d think that every child in the city was being sexually abused, every journey every day disrupted, resulting in ‘pure misery’, every teenager a drug-crazed psychopath. Does it alarm? Sure. Does it help us understand? You must…

  • Light posting

    I have a deadline to meet on Can You Trust The Media so I’ll be posting lightly until October 1st when normal poor levels of service will resume!