And Also....
- Ross leaves BBC
January 7, 2010 | 12:20 pmWith Jonathan Ross leaving in July, can we have Barry Norman back please?
- Historian David Starkey
October 2, 2009 | 2:51 pmTwo words describe this man – irreverent and irrelevant.
- McD v McC
September 8, 2009 | 11:55 amIt is good that McDonalds lost their case against McCurry; enough of the bully boys! However, McCurry argued their name stood for “Malaysian Chicken Curry”
Yeah, right…
Media
Nick Robinson Twists Facts Live
Nick Robinson on the BBC Daily Politics today. Today on the Daily Politics there was the most outrageous twisting of facts by Nick Robinson in regards to the bullying accusations. In the commons, Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, was questioned over the affair and was asked to respond to comments Robinson had made earlier. O’Donnell... »
Online TV – Solving a problem that does not exist
Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw creating problems to solve Last June, the UK government, in their wisdom, decided that getting everyone on broadband is absolutely vital for the future of this country; if a member of the public cannot watch Eastenders via the Internet then we have somehow eroded their fundamental rights and the quality... »
Has the BBC Moderators been infiltrated by the BNP?
Today I posted a comment on BBC Have Your Say about education and parents cheating to get kids into preferred schools. In the post I commented that a child’s success more depended on the commitment and support of the parent than on the school. I made the point that in certain cultures, Jewish and... »
BNP Question Time on the BBC
Kick this man out of the country - we dont want his kind If Question Time tomorrow night on BBC One is a ratings success, will the BBC claim it as a victory for democracy and their sound editorial judgement? Or will they be honest and admit that pandering to the public’s voyeuristic television... »
Intel predicts Television Hell
“By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content” I have to say that when I read this at the head of a BBC Article about Intel’s vision of the future, my heart sunk. I kept thinking of my parent’s predictions about... »
Can Journalism ever tell the truth?
The biggest issue facing any news source, whether it be a broadcaster, a newspaper, a magazine or a blogger, is authority. Have I the evidence to back my claims? Is my quote accurate? Is the nature of the source fully explained and identified? Is what I am saying actually true? And so on. Although... »
Why I want to opt in and not opt out
The World Wide Beast is a strange creature. It has grown up over the last couple of decades with a remarkable lack of direction and a fair amount of misdirection (and one heck of a lot of misinformation.) If it had been conceived and inaugurated by government, the Orwellian nature of the system (especially... »
Radio is still Better than the Internet
I got a little email the other day from our friends at the RAB, the Radio Advertising Bureau. They have employed the husky talents of Arfur Smiff (two effs) to sell the point that in the recent Thinkbox ad for TV advertising, you could close your ears and have the same thing going for... »
Poems about us
Newsnight Review is asking for poems that define our times. Here is mine: I wont be loud I wont shout and scream I wont be violently left or right Or worry about God or no god I wont make my hurt known I wont question the messengers I wont admit to being deceived As the lies wash over me I wont have the... »
New Virgin Media Shorts
Virgin have a pretty mixed reputation these days, but occasionally they do something really, really good. In this case it is the Virgin Media Shorts film competitions. This year a friend of mine has entered his film Bumblin’ and has very kindly asked me to compose the music. It is the sad tale of two... »