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Ofcom and the future of TV news
Writing in American journalism’s gilded age, Charles Dudley Warner offered this assessment of the worth of a newspaper: Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful…
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Ofcom’s PSB report – signifying nothing
In the crazy mental world I inhabit, I actually like media regulation. UK TV, excepting the BBC, is regulated by Ofcom. You can read their annual report on public service broadcasting here. The report is what a regulator’s report that didn’t want to regulate would look like. In this parallel world of non-regulation, this is…
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UK vs US news media
On the media difference between Britain and America, from a former Brit who swapped the UK for Chicago. It has the ring of truth! The British are drowned in world news and current affairs like an oozing puss of global pain and suffering. It is almost as if the evening family meal can’t be served…
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Sky News on Freeview
Friday is always a good day for announcements. That’s the day Ofcom announced this: Sky proposal to launch new service on digital terrestrial television On 8 February 2007 Sky announced that it proposes to launch a new service on the digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform. Following a series of requests for clarity on the regulatory…