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Royal trailer trash
Stephen Lambert, the magnificently monikered Chief Creative Officer at TV production company RDF, is carrying the can for the Queen promo. Last Friday he offered to resign, but David Frank (the DF in RDF) is waiting for the BBC inquiry to run its course (or get going even). When not offering to resign, Lambert is…
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The best of British journalism
There is a strangeness about the British press – the newspapers go from ponderous analysis to pure entertainment and they bring the techniques of journalism to bear on all of that content. But, at the British Press Awards, there was some outstanding journalism on display. To invidiously name just three of the winners: Sheila McNulty…
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Is there a media campaign against UKIP?
Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into…
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TV news critics
The Daily Mail has yet to replace its TV critic, and looks likely to leave the slot empty according to Peter Preston. Take a look at two recent pieces of critical work on TV news and go figure… Cotswold Life pin-up Adrian Gill – on the right (yes, literally and figuratively) – reviews Al Jazeera…