adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Local TV

    Ten Alps has just launched a broadband TV channel for my county coucil, Kent. Sir Bob Geldof reckons every local authority will have one in five years. I wish I had the sheer brass to sell shite like this. What was the deal clincher? “A platform for your back catalogue of cheesy old VNRs.” Now,…

  • Play our new game: BBC moral equivalence

    Mark Thompson writes about trust in the BBC. After condemning the children’s programme editor who apparently believed a poll had been rigged and changed the name of a cat (yes, really), Thompson lets off senior BBC manager Alan Yentob for filming reaction shots to interviews he didn’t actually show up for. Yes, according to the…

  • 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.

  • 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…