{"id":568,"date":"2007-08-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2007-08-08T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T09:00:00","slug":"diversity-the-price-of-success-in-tv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/08\/diversity-the-price-of-success-in-tv-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity: the price of success in TV news"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>he BBC<\/span> is trumpeting its recent surge in 24-hour news, according to the Guardian<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The BBC head of television news, Peter Horrocks, said: \u201cWe are maintaining our traditional values of accuracy and authority, with an emphasis on original journalism and vivid story-telling.<\/p>\n

\u201cAudiences might have reason to question our competitors\u2019 commitment to news. Sky News is no longer valuable on cable and BSkyB want to take it off Freeview…for many audiences ‘the news’ now simply means BBC News.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Horrocks is entitled to private satisfaction, but he has not just a managerial but a political job, and in politics success like failure, always comes at a cost.<\/p>\n

If there were a market impact assessment today on introducing a 24-hour news service that would demolish one attempt at competition (ITV News Channel<\/span>) and undermine the business model of another, News 24<\/span> would not exist.<\/p>\n

News channels are profitable in the United States – and there are MSNBC<\/span>, Fox News<\/span> and CNN<\/span> to prove it. They are not profitable in the UK, and if James Murdoch<\/span> should decide to shut Sky News<\/span> down, or limit its carriage, we are left with just the BBC<\/span> to provide us with 24-hour news. Perhaps that\u2019s not the end of the world, but it is the end of diversity. And diversity – pace<\/span> the different ‘flavours’ of BBC News<\/span> – doesn\u2019t just mean within the death hug of the Corporation.<\/p>\n

When national news breaks we want more than one source directing us to the truth. Remember 7\/7? Audiences may not want to forget News 24<\/span>\u2019s response that day…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC is trumpeting its recent surge in 24-hour news, according to the Guardian: The BBC head of television news, Peter Horrocks, said: \u201cWe are maintaining our traditional values of accuracy and authority, with an emphasis on original journalism and vivid story-telling. \u201cAudiences might have reason to question our competitors\u2019 commitment to news. Sky News […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-sky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}