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Sky and ITN
Here’s the Competition Commission rejecting Sky, as it relates to TV news: We do not think that this shareholding is sufficient to give rise to competition concerns in other areas we’ve looked at such as advertising and TV news provision. As far as the media public interest consideration is concerned, we do not think there…
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Phoney calls
The news that someone from the Jo Whiley show called in pretending to be a listener is obviously a one-off. It can never have been industry practice to behave so, erm, underhandedly… Back in the day, however, TV execs did used to pay inordinate attention to “viewers’ calls.” The editor of a famous series –…
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Who is the anonymous Andrew Gilligan commenter?
My Andrew Gilligan post attracted a couple of anonymous comments, apparently by the same author. Who could the anonymous author be? Well online, nothing is really anonymous – now is it? Take a look at this screenshot for a moment while we play Internet detective… [APOLOGIES – THE SCREENSHOT THAT WAS HERE HAS DISAPPEARED –…
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Journalism at the movies
I finally got round to seeing the Bourne Ultimatum at the weekend. (Spoiler ahead) It shoots straight into the top ten for cinematic journalist portrayals, though it doesn’t do us any favours. Paddy Considine plays Simon Ross, fictional security correspondent of the Guardian, a reporter so drippy his photo-byline is a tea stain. Farringdon Road…