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Politics on TV
With America going to the polls on 7th November, anyone tempted Jonny Freedland-style to laud their dynamic political culture will have to squeeze past this gem from NBC’s Today Show. It features Republican National Committee boss Ken Mehlman and Terry McAuliffe, former head of the Democratic National Committee. Stuck in the middle, Today anchor Meredith…
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Gardening, ‘New’ Media and Auntie
The news that the BBC might soon look at online advertising [DS] reminded me of a panel I sat on recently with an exec from a national newspaper. He was talking cogently about his title’s online strategy. It was moving towards audio-visual content. It was all about niches, said the exec. Panellists and audience nodded.…
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Commuters and newspapers
Do more people read the Evening Standard in Tunbridge Wells than in Battersea? That’s what former Guardian journalist and Battersea MP Martin Linton reckons. What Linton meant by his throwaway comment is that it’s read by commuters. And commuters, especially rail commuters, are political trash. They generate their economic value in a place that gives…
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Dan Chambers
When Channel 5 News launched nearly ten years ago, some of the turgid independent films we were obliged to air were produced by a company that spent so little money on them we feared they were filmed, directed and produced by the researcher. Turns out they were. Step forward budget TV boy, Dan Chambers. Making…