Coup or crisis? Can the panel discuss … As the controversy surrounding BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time rumbles on, it's still hard to properly determine the long term impact that this has had. However it seems very...
Posts from October 2009
Even more questions
Packing them in
Griffin complaint over BBC 'mob' It's hard to feel much sympathy for Nick Griffin, the leader of the right-wing British National Party, whose controversial appearance on Question Time last night provoked a sizeable demonstration outside Television Centre and led to...
News from somewhere
ITV to drop Big Ben from News at Ten titles It's no surprise to learn that ITV bosses have decided to partly apportion the blame for relatively low ratings for the return of News At Ten on an old-fashioned a...
The right to know
Parliament and free speech: The right to know The Minton report If ever anyone were still sanguine about the right of free speech in this country, the débâcle this week concerning Trafigura, Carter-Ruck, The Guardian and Twitter should cause deep...
Lightning strikes twice
Broadcast Now: Andrew Jackson at centre of BBC row - before he even starts Perhaps the most bizarre yet of a series of incidents that have affected the BBC in some form over the last few years, it concerns the...
No (regional) branding please, we're ITV1
ITV faces regional news battle Conveniently forgetting about GMTV (in which ITV have, ahem, a majority shareholding), ITV plc is perhaps unsuccessfully trying to demand that any new regional news franchise operation - namely something that ITV wants but doesn't...
A whole new ballgame
Digital Spy: Online England game attracts 500,000 Last Saturday, something truly momentous happened in the world of television that was arguably on a par with the launch of Sky Digital, yet this particular event was actually something that was missing...
Not really solving the problem
BBC to crack down on swearing and violence Draft BBC Editorial Guildelines (PDF) Hmmm... 13.3.8 Any plans to re-use, reversion or make available archive material featuring members of the Royal Family or the Royal Palaces (except for news material showing...
Paying for Five
Broadcast Now: Five mulls switch to pay-TV Originally being the smallest of the five 'national' terrestrial channels along with having a patchy analogue terrestrial TV coverage area even at its peak, Channel Five has always occupied a slightly awkward position...
