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The Police vs. Channel 4
Remember Undercover Mosque, the investigation in Channel 4’s Dispatches strand? Ofcom’s decision in respect of Undercover Mosque throws the ball firmly back into the court of West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service. This was their statement from back in August 2007: [Assistant Chief Constable] Anil Patani for West Midlands Police said: “As a…
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Ofcom on Undercover Mosque
Here is the full Ofcom judgement as it relates to Undercover Mosque, aired by Channel 4 on Dispatches: IntroductionUndercover Mosque was an edition of Channel 4’s investigative current affairs series Dispatches. The programme reported the observations of an undercover reporter who visited a number of Mosques and Islamic organisations in Britain. The programme stated that…
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The future of Channel 4
David Lloyd calls for a new public endowment for Channel 4 in the Guardian today. It’s an edit of a very entertaining lecture he gave at City University last Tuesday – and which we’ll post soon on our website. He mischievously fuelled speculation that Mark Thompson wasn’t the first choice for Channel 4 CEO when…
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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…