Category: Off Topic

  • What To Do If You Find Top Secret Docs 2

    Just hand them to the police and cut out the sententious, moralising middle man. Why so? Over at the BBC Editors Blog, Fran Unsworth explains why the BBC did this with the ‘top secret’ documents it received.

  • Westminster Media Forum 4 – live blogging

    WMF – Social networking, privacy and the press – Eve Salomon, Press Complaints Commission We need to know how to motivate users to take privacy on board – gives example of 17 yr old son and Facebook.

  • The BBC and presenter pay

    So the BBC is cleared of paying too much for talent. Great word. Let’s try two older ones – public servants. The BBC is a public service broadcaster, so the standard by which its salaries should be judged is the UK public sector. The Prime Minister makes getting on for £190k. The Lord Chief Justice…

  • A scene from home…

    From the New Yorker, of course, with thanks to Mike.