by admin | Oct 26, 2020 | BBC, Europe, Government, Public Service Broadcasting
While the government is still deciding on whether to decriminalise non-payment of the television licence fee, following a public consultation earlier this year, the very future of the TV licence fee hangs in the balance. Although safe until the next BBC Charter Review...
by admin | Feb 16, 2020 | BBC, Press
Last week I sent out an email to contacts telling them about a new Government inquiry into the future of journalism. Chaired by Lord Gilbert of Panteg, chair of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee, it will investigate how the production and...
by admin | Dec 7, 2019 | BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, media plurality, Public Service Broadcasting, Reviews
The central role the media has played in the General Election Campaign is undeniable. So is the pro Conservative party dominance of much of the national press together with its anti-Labour party bias. Social media has again offered alternative platforms for the...
by admin | Nov 7, 2019 | BBC, Public Service Broadcasting
Just hours before Parliament was dissolved at one minute past midnight on 6 November, the House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee published a report calling for urgent action to safeguard the future of public service broadcasting. The report –...
by admin | Mar 23, 2019 | BBC, Campaigns, international, media freedom, nuj
On 12 March 2018 the BBC website reported on the harassment of its Persian staff. It stated that it was making an unprecedented appeal to the UN to stop Iran from harassing its Persian service staff in London and their families in Iran. It said that Iran had...
by admin | Dec 21, 2016 | BBC, Europe, Press, Public Service Broadcasting
I have just finished reading ‘Unleashing Demons’ by by Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s former spin doctor (Director of Politics and Communications to give him his official title, a position which he held from September 2011 until Cameron’s...
