{"id":10,"date":"2006-10-26T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2006-10-26T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T09:38:00","slug":"mod-dir-of-news-email-to-itv-news-execs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/10\/mod-dir-of-news-email-to-itv-news-execs\/","title":{"rendered":"MoD Dir of News email to ITV News execs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because The Times<\/em> doesn’t seem to have reproduced James Clark’s email in full from their print edition, here it is:<\/p>\n


All<\/p>\n

I’ve just watched two bulletins on hospital care tonight on ITV News.<\/p>\n

As bad a hatchet-job as I’ve seen in years. Cheap shots all over the place, no context, no reasonable explanation. Like the Daily Star <\/em><\/strong>[a British tabloid] in moving pictures.<\/p>\n

If this is ITN’s way of managing a relationship, so be it. It bears little resemblance to the string of emails I have from ITN executives asking me to sort out trips and embeds in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the help I have tried to give to your political coverage of defence matters.<\/p>\n

One of my staff who has worked herself into the ground to provide everything she could for this piece and those which follow it this week just asked me: “Explain to me again what the point is in speaking to them?”<\/p>\n

Why on earth would we spend time, resources and valuable places wanted by Sky, the BBC and others to facilitate journalism like this?<\/p>\n

Answer – we’d have to be mad, and we’re not.<\/p>\n

If giving ITN detailed exposure to our people, lengthy briefing and open access results in this, then I dread to think how your editors and producers would look to exploit access to our people in theatres, or our chiefs and ministers.<\/p>\n

J<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Frank or clumsy? You decide. It reminds me of an email sent by Clark’s predecessor, Simon Wren, which began simply “Dear Hacks…” Wren’s style with the media was famously blunt, but was perceived by “hacks” to be effective. Personally I didn’t like it, because it played favourites. But perhaps playing favourites is what it’s all about…<\/p>\n

Incidentally to find out more, you can watch the original packages by following this link at itv.com, and click on ‘Betrayed? An investigation.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because The Times doesn’t seem to have reproduced James Clark’s email in full from their print edition, here it is: All I’ve just watched two bulletins on hospital care tonight on ITV News. As bad a hatchet-job as I’ve seen in years. Cheap shots all over the place, no context, no reasonable explanation. Like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,16,33],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-itv-news","tag-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}