adrian monck

Month: December 2007

  • How to promote your worthy documentary, part 1

    In the increasingly desperate battle for ratings, are producers resorting to publicity wheezes (trans. dirty tricks) to promote otherwise worthy documentaries? Remember the Paul Watson Alzheimers saga? Now there’s a new contender. Martin Belam has gathered the evidence here. But it is an odd tale that began (bizarrely) on BBC arts prog Front Row, transferred…

  • Arms or education in the Middle East?

    I am a big fan of Mahmood Al-Yousif. If you want a view from the Gulf that challenges prejudice and gives you an indication of what exactly it feels like to be an Arab across a narrow strip of water from Iran, he is hard to beat. In this post he has just been to…

  • Doris Lessing on story telling

    We are lucky enough to have Doris Lessing on the advisory board of our Creative Writing MA (the novels bit). Doris has got into trouble recently on the blogosphere. Put it aside. Read her magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech – a wonderful piece of writing. And wisdom. Yes, it does come with age for some…

  • Fighting terror on Facebook

    Mike Rosenblum, the godfather of video journalism, has an interesting post on Facebook and its potential use by intelligence agencies as a means of mapping networks. I’m sure he doesn’t quite mean to go as far as this quote suggests, but you will get his drift: A few days ago, I typed in the name…