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The World Tonight
Look out for Adam Holloway MP who visited Afghanistan recently, and City’s own Professor Stewart Purvis – former ITN CEO – talking about ITN and the MoD on BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight at 22:00 UK time. You can listen online.
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Tali Telly Ban
Ok, apologies for the dreadful headline. Reporting both sides in a conflict does seem to invite political criticism, as CNN has discovered. Here’s the BBC attracting flak from the Conservative Party’s defence spokesman, Liam Fox. He said: “I am disgusted that the BBC should broadcast an interview with a Taliban ‘adviser’ while our troops are…
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MoD Dir of News email to ITV News execs
Because The Times doesn’t seem to have reproduced James Clark’s email in full from their print edition, here it is: All I’ve just watched two bulletins on hospital care tonight on ITV News. As bad a hatchet-job as I’ve seen in years. Cheap shots all over the place, no context, no reasonable explanation. Like the…
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The Media Village
Charles Dickens spent a great part of his life in what is now an anonymous Bloomsbury rat-run for black cabs called Doughty Street. Nearby is Brownlow Street, probably the name Dickens borrowed for the philanthropist who adopts Oliver Twist. It’s a run of sooty, late Georgian terraces, better known these days as the home of…