A documentary team from Norway’s TV2 channel, the country’s largest commercial broadcaster, went to Niger to make a film about the aid that flooded into the country in the wake of BBC TV reports about a famine there.
The odd thing was that they couldn’t find anyone there who knew anything about the famine. There was [...]
When we wrote about various TV shows deceiving viewers in Complete and Utter Zebu, we assumed that we were writing about something that was history. Programme after programme had been found to have faked footage and, being found out, the TV companies apologised and said it would never happen again. Indeed, the BBC ended up [...]
For the next week, you can use the invaluable BBC’s Listen Again service to listen to silence. Yup, appearing in the list of Radio 4 programmes today is the Armistice Day Two Minutes’ Silence. Do they imagine that those who missed it or were unable to mark the occasion at eleven o’clock on the eleventh [...]
Following a few links on the BBC’s news website to keep up to date with the latest on the MPs’ expenses scandal, I found that one link wasn’t working. I wouldn’t normally examine the error message on my screen in detail but the conjunction of letters in the middle rather leapt out at me.
It’s hard [...]
Remember a few months back when BBC presenter Carrie Gracie was interviewing Lord George Foulkes about MPs’ expenses and he demanded to know how much she was paid? To everyone’s suprise, she admitted on air that her salary was £92,000.
What a shame that after she showed him hers, she didn’t ask to see his. For [...]
No wonder the BNP has made such headway if our leading politicians can’t muster a better counter-argument than they did on last night’s Question Time. Were they told to call Griffin “Nick” all the time? It just made it all seem uncomfortably chummy, making him one of the gang, which is surely exactly what he [...]
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