³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ in the news, Monday
| 09:46 UK time, Monday, 19 March 2007
The Independent: Article on whether short video clips will replace longer programmes, including news bulletins and current affairs shows. ()
Daily Mirror: Reports on Director General Mark Thompson's comments that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ needs to restore viewers' trust after the recent TV phone-in scandal. ()
Comments
While Youtube is very popular that doesn't mean we want the same thing on the TV, Youtube is also free unlike the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳. I'd hate broadcasters to use Youtubes popularity as an excuse to dumb down output even further.
"Richard Sambrook, director of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s global news division, admits that many people do not have the stamina to sit through a standard news bulletin or serious current affairs show."
oh dear.
The problem for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is that it is seen as a mouthpiece of the government, as the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s ability to criticise the government is tied to the licence fee and the hold which governments have over future increases, and also its possible abolition.
An example of this was when the David Kelly story was developing, and the following consequencies of the Hutton Enquiry, resulting in resignations from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, but not of course the Blair Government.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is not impartial as it has to look to the unfavourable reaction and conseqencies of the current government. In the case of the Kelly suicide/murder and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ reporters associations with shady figures from MI5 and 6 and David Kelly, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ caved in, when the guilty parties were elswhere.