{"id":591,"date":"2007-09-09T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2007-09-09T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T18:44:00","slug":"alan-yentob-unforgivable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/alan-yentob-unforgivable\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Yentob: unforgivable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/biographies\/biogs\/executives\/alanyentob.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">lan Yentob<\/a>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span> Creative Director and self-basting arts turkey, uses an <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Observer<\/span> diary piece to bury <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/7days\/story\/0,,2165275,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">his contribution<\/a> to the cut-away crisis. Yentob is <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/site\/story\/0,,2164226,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the dock<\/a> for being filmed nodding approvingly to contributions from people he hadn\u2019t actually interviewed. The impression being given to viewers that he had actually interviewed them.<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;on occasion, I have done &#8216;noddies&#8217; because the constrictions and conventions of TV demand one from time to time. Are we not losing our heads in this debate? Isn\u2019t it important to acknowledge that there can be artifice without deception? Television is a medium and programmes are constructed; there needs to be a narrative flow.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to argue in favour of laziness and slack programme making. And of course there have been abuses. But there\u2019s a line to be drawn between serious breaches of trust and the ordinary business, the ordinary mechanics of television. The debate is too serious to be diminished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There can be artifice without deception, but only by negotiation with the audience. And in Yentob\u2019s case there is none, it is simply a convenience &#8211; his schedule! &#8211; which makes it a patronizing and pointless fraud, and therefore unforgivable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Yentob, BBC Creative Director and self-basting arts turkey, uses an Observer diary piece to bury his contribution to the cut-away crisis. Yentob is in the dock for being filmed nodding approvingly to contributions from people he hadn\u2019t actually interviewed. The impression being given to viewers that he had actually interviewed them. &#8230;on occasion, I [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}