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Ofcom and informing the public
On November 23, Ofcom will be running a conference on its New News, Future News document, launched back in July. And I know that blood-thickening intro will make you think – Jeez, I’m not going to read more – please, READ MORE!I’ve already pointed out Ofcom’s failure to adequately investigate the figure quoted for the…
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BBC World News America
Reuters carries a glowing review out of Los Angeles of the new BBC US newscast. “BBC World News America” is calm, measured and light years more journalistically sophisticated and informative than its domestically bred competition. Good review aside, actually what’s interesting about this is the involvement of Rome Hartman and what it tells you about…
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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 –…