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Advertising, content and discontinuity
I was just reading Vin Crosbie‘s latest post in which he repeats the line that newspaper circulation has been falling for 30 years. (Leo Bogart noted that it was 1971 when total US newspaper circulation dropped below total number of households.) Since the 1980s TV has been facing similar decline. Crosbie says it’s all about…
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Death on TV: collaboration, complicity or collusion?
The tea-cup sized trust storm enveloping Paul Watson and his documentary, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, continues to brew. He was on the Today programme, Barbara Pointon talked to BBC News. (I chipped in briefly on News 24.) Watson’s film was made at the invitation of Mrs Pointon (husband Malcolm being unable to grant or…
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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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Young people and the news
Young people and the news. Harvard’s Shorenstein Centre has a metrics-based jeremiad out, with just that title. (In case you feel like it’s déjà vu all over again, I’ve posted on this before.) Hand-wringing over young people and the news is simply a displaced generational concern for their lack of the right stuff. We don’t…