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...
by admin | Nov 8, 2011 | BBC, Campaigns, nuj, unions
The NUJ ballot for strike action and action short of a strike at the BBC started this week. The ballot is in response to the BBC’s misnamed Delivering Quality First proposals which include axing thousands of jobs and programming cuts at the Corporation. According to...
by admin | Jul 17, 2011 | BBC, Campaigns, international, media freedom, nuj, Press
On 30 June, I was demonstrating outside the Department of Culture Media and Sport offices, just off Trafalgar Square in London. There was a general feeling that it was only a matter of time before Jeremy Hunt MP would waive through the takeover of BSkyB by News...
by admin | Jun 3, 2011 | BBC, international, media freedom
I recently received a visit from an old friend of mine who now lives in Australia (Tasmania). It was on the day the Palace rolled out its programme for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations from 2 June next year and we quickly moved onto the subject of the coverage of the...
