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The BBC and impartiality
A day after Charlie Beckett hosted a debate on impartiality (missed it – parenting), Robin Aitken, ex-BBC journo and author of Can We Trust The BBC? came in to talk on exactly that topic to Broadcast students. Robin basically believes in the BBC and places great store in the Bridcut report [pdf] on impartiality at…
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Democracy might have saved the BBC
Now the BBC is in trouble and there is no one to come to its aid. In the final irony, its own rules on impartiality forbid it from campaigning against its own evisceration.Two years ago I hosted a lunch for Michael Grade where he explained his plans for revising BBC governance. After he talked amusingly…
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Blood at the Beeb
There is an upside to the dark times at the BBC: more factual output will be gathered around “totemic” brands such as Panorama and The One Show. Thank God! Jeremy Vine’s links and The One Show are safe! What is television for, asked Jeremy Paxman. There’s your answer mate.
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Alan Yentob: mea maxima exculpa
So Alan Yentob is in the clear. Phew! There’s no evidence that ‘noddies’ were inserted into his broadcast work. Ahem. What it actually looks like, is that although it is more than likely that he filmed fake cutaways, they never ended up being aired. He told an old chum: “I’m sorry – I hope you…