BBC readies social media make-over
A couple of reports around today on the BBC’s social media plans saying that as soon as this weekend it will begin adding applications to support its most popular shows. Broadband TV News says that the...
View ArticleIs Murdoch really plannng a Google free future?
Rupert Murdoch has taken time out to tell Sky News Australia why he might ban his content from Google and why he’d rather have fewer visitors coming to his (paid for) websites (not to mention a quick...
View ArticleBBC news chief Sambrook joins Edelman to head global content
Very interesting news with PR firm Edelman hiring Richard Sambrook, the BBC’s director of global news, as global chief content officer. What a coup for Edelman to get such a big hitting news...
View ArticleCrises at Al-Jazeera as five female presenters quit
Al-Jazeera has shot itself in the foot and is it seems attempting to blow its efforts to establish itself as a channel that can easily appeal to non Muslims after five of its female presenters resigned...
View ArticleHow Cameron and the Standard tackle growing row over Coulson and phone hacking
Well he doesn’t, but this story splashed on the front page of the Evening Standard today of David Cameron, wife Sam and new family addition probably encapsulates his attitude, and that of parts of the...
View ArticleThe Paxman Newsnight interview with Hitchens
If you missed Monday’s airing of the BBC interview of journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens by Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two’s Newsnight you can still catch it. It is on BBC iPlayer or you can...
View ArticleLatest on the News of the World #liveblog 5
17:30 – As the NotW story becomes a much wider News International story it seems worth revisiting the post earlier today from (14:05) that this scandal could lead to the sell-off or break up of News...
View ArticleSteven Moffat talks about the new series of Doctor Who
This looks like it will be very good. Who hasn’t wanted to kill Hitler? It is a great idea for a story. New show kicks off on August 27. Steven Moffat talks about the new series of Doctor Who. “The...
View ArticleWelcome to the face of the new smaller BBC #dqf
Doubly sad news today as the BBC has announced that it will cut 2000 jobs by 2017 and still isn’t closing BBC Three. That channel has friends in high places. But more seriously, these are very large...
View ArticleBBC bloops again as it uses Halo image instead of UN logo
The BBC has been having a bit of an image crises this week. First we had an almost ten year old picture of dead bodies in Iraq being used to illustrate the massacre of 100 plus people in the Syrian...
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