I don’t know if you are familiar with the Your News strand on BBC News. It is a magazine-style, twenty-minute-or-so-long programme designed to showcase some of the more interesting stories sent in to the BBC via the Web and the phone. Each week the presenters are sent to a city in the UK and report [...]
Category Archives: Television
24
Nov
2007
MURDOCH’S RULE: SKY NEWS VS. FOX NEWS
Our favourite Aussie granddad Rupert Murdoch has told a House of Lords Communications committee review that Sky News could be more popular if it emulated its American counterpart Fox News a bit more.
Most people are aware that a rule exists for UK news broadcasters regarding impartiality. Broadcast news must remain so, meaning political bias is [...]
24
Nov
2007
Death of the Free Web
French President Nicolas Sarkozy today announced the formation of a new Anti-Piracy body, designed to combat the illegal sharing of media content on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in the country. This isn’t a surprise; the French government has been brokering a deal with the country’s media companies over the past months with the aim of tackling [...]
23
Nov
2007
BBC NEWS SLIPPING INTO BAD HABITS
When Sky News decided to introduce their current graphics to a somewhat mixed reaction almost a year ago now, I wasn’t too impressed. But, none-the-less, they have come to grow on me.
I do, however, have one big anxiety about it… The never-ending ‘BREAKING NEWS’ banner that scrolls ominously at the bottom of the screen in [...]
