adrian monck

Month: October 2007

  • ITV: bad news bears

    Two announcements today from ITV: RDF is back in business as a supplier, subject to new compliance procedures – like don’t let your chief creative officer get his hands on any rushes – that kind of thing. That one certainly slipped out didn’t it? Nothing to do with timing… And the Deloitte Report. My favourite…

  • Reading the news

    Let me ask you a question. Do you think the same person could read the news at 6pm, and go on and do the same at 10pm? On Sky News, Julie Etchingham is on air from 9am to 1pm. It may sound flippant, but actually, with the cuts currently facing BBC News – it’s anything…

  • Scepticism – the other side of trust

    This is an excerpt I posted as a comment at Steve Boriss’s futureofnews site, but worth repeating here. It’s from 1983, and it’s Theodore Lowi reviewing Seymour Martin Lipset and Bill Schneider’s trust epic The Confidence Gap. I think Lowi has probably the neatest re-framing the whole trust conundrum: If the so-called confidence gap is…

  • More from Roger Ailes

    You have to love this quote from Fox boss Roger Ailes in Broadcasting & Cable: Q: Are you getting more nervous as [the launch of Fox Business News] approaches? A: No. Look, when you die, the first 100 years in the ground is just the beginning. So you just can’t get yourself all worked up…