adrian monck

Month: January 2008

  • Adieu France 24?

    According to Forbes, France 24 in English is going to be axed. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is quoted saying: “a public channel, France Monde… can only speak French. “Between Al-Jazeera, the Arab perspective, and CNN, the Anglo-Saxon perspective, we would like to carry more of a French perspective,” he said. “We can perfectly have regional…

  • TV and the presidency: Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon

    From Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968 – a young Roger Ailes, formerly exec producer of the Mike Douglas Show, has been hired to produce ten live one-hour programmes featuring Richard Nixon. Nixon met the 28-year old Ailes before he appeared on the Douglas show. “It’s a shame a man has to use…

  • The Simpsons on the future of newspapers

    The Simpsons on the future of newspapers (HT: Mark Hamilton).

  • Honesty in factual entertainment

    Isn’t it time for the tricks – I don’t know what else you’d call them – of factual entertainment to be made as transparent in the UK as in the US? The Guardian’s media diary notes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: We would have liked the Granada America show even more had it not been…