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Extra-judicial killing and Islam
Dispatches reporter Phil Rees last night made much of a purportedly rather dangerous sounding man in glasses and a scarf, giving his rather dangerous sounding interpretation of the Qu’ran. Rees’s justification? Journalists need to present the views of radical Muslims in a way that does not push them toward further violence. Journalism has a duty…
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RDF – at least Channel 4 still loves them…
Whilst RDF do about a fifth of their business with ITV and BBC, their main client is the reassuringly silent Channel 4. One of the reality shows RDF produces for them is Property Ladder, and it so happened that friends of ours wangled a slot on it (against my advice). The programme has an agreeable…
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The future of UK TV news – a regulator writes
Here are Ofcom‘s discussion points from its Future of News paper (available in full here). Television news cannot be taken for granted on any commercial channel after digital switch-over, because revenues generated from advertising around news programmes do not appear to cover costs of production… …there are good reasons for existing commercial PSB channels to…
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The value of TV news
In case you hadn’t come across it, there’s a very good report [pdf] out from media consultancy Human Capital on the value of news for UK commercial Public Service Broadcasters (that’s ITV, Channel 4, and five), who all have to run news as part of the price of accessing the vanishing airwaves. In an act…