Tag: BBC

  • John Simpson: wrong and right about TV news

    From John Simpson: All the signs are that British people are simply becoming less interested in the world around them. Once upon a time, we used to think that this kind of isolationism was something particularly American, like high levels of crime, the possession of guns and wide-scale drug addiction. Americans weren’t interested much in…

  • The Wyatt Report

    The Wyatt Report raises some damning issues. For my money, these are the three shockers: 1. The Palace being allowed sneak preview access by RDF – effectively giving participants the opportunity to exert editorial control. If that’s how the Queen’s Castle got made, we should know. …at the end of June RDF had shown the…

  • Crimewatch

    Kirsty for Crimewatch? It’s taken the Beeb a bloody long time to recognize talent when it was parked right in front of them… The Daily Mail meanwhile concentrates on the change in hair colour:

  • Andrew Gilligan: hero of journalism…

    Andrew Gilligan takes one more chance to defend himself at CiF: Although Hutton was, of course, a tactical triumph for [Alastair Campbell], with a knockout victory in the report and three good BBC scalps, it was an unparalleled strategic disaster. If his aim in taking us on was to disprove my story about the sexed-up…