adrian monck

Tag: BBC

  • Off licence

    …if they go mad and hire fifteen more Jonathan Rosses they’ll blow the whole wad!Exactly who believes that the leaked licence fee settlement is bad news for the BBC? Why BBC insiders, of course. Oh, and the NUJ and BECTU. In the real world, a 3% revenue rise for the next couple of years is…

  • Somebodies and nobodies

    Today is getting Rowan Williams, Yoko Ono and a couple of other people in, to ‘edit’ the programme over the festive period. Well, it beats paying overtime. The BBC is good with somebodies, but it doesn’t do as well with nobodies. It’s great at providing a platform for people who already have a platform, like…

  • Panorama

    When the BBC delivered its verdict on the Hutton Inquiry it was left to John Ware and Panorama. The transcript for Ware’s programme runs to over 12,000 words. It’s a long and serious piece of work, and the original cut runs longer still. Ware has left the programme. Now it will be half an hour.…

  • Disappointed by the pace of success?

    Final Bush-Blair presser post and my favourite Bushism – “I am disappointed by the pace of success.” Here’s the basic division of opinion on Nick Robinson. 1) GO GET ‘EM Chicago Tribune: We American reporters aren’t sure why our British cousins don’t stand when they ask questions of our president or their prime minister like…