https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:51:28 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The execution-style killing of young schoolgirls in rural Pennsylvania has brought the peaceful community of Nickel Mines into the world's eye for all the worst reasons. The small Amish community has been besieged by the media after a milk-truck driver... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/photographing_the_amish.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/photographing_the_amish.html Accountability Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:51:28 +0000 On this week's Newswatch - the show which voices your criticisms of BBC News - David Kermode, editor of Breakfast, talks about coverage of celebrity news such as Richard Hammond's crash. Also Craig Oliver, editor of the Ten O'Clock News,... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/newswatch_3.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/newswatch_3.html Accountability Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:51:21 +0000 We've had a few comments about our coverage of the tragic death of a baby girl in Leicester, after she was mauled by two Rottweiler dogs. Did we vilify Rottweilers? Did we create panic amongst dog owners? I think the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/post_3.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/post_3.html One O'Clock News Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:15:34 +0000 The reverberations of last week’s Panorama are still being felt – but not just in the world of football. They have also provoked a great deal of comment how about how we at the BBC cover stories generated by our... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/cover_stories_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/cover_stories_1.html Accountability Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:41:36 +0000 Richard Hammond appears to be making a good recovery. His doctors are apparently "cautiously optimistic". When news of his accident broke on Wednesday night, details were sketchy. It had an, "oh god, that's awful" factor, and I was in doubt... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/excessive_coverage.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/excessive_coverage.html Breakfast Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:51:41 +0000 Every time we run an item about climate change - which let's face it is quite often - we get a number of complaints about media hysteria. "Oh no! Branson has just pledged 3 billion to fight Global Warming. ANOTHER... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/hoping_for_the_best.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/hoping_for_the_best.html Newsnight Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:02:14 +0000 Someone, some time ago, proposed that one of the things we should make sure was on the BBC College of Journalism website was a module - a film, perhaps - showing the way we cover news stories ... as seen... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/editor_as_interviewee.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/editor_as_interviewee.html College of Journalism Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:56:20 +0000 Should the BBC’s political editor, Nick Robinson, have asked about UK politics during press conferences over the last three days given by Tony Blair with the Israeli, Palestinian and Lebanese leaders? Nick’s questions - used in his reports on TV... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/questioning_mr_blair.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/questioning_mr_blair.html Audiences Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:57:05 +0000 Recently, we interviewed the leaders of the three main parties on environmental policy - we called our two weeks of journalism 'The Global Challenge'. All of them talk a good game but our listeners are far from impressed with the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/global_challenge.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/global_challenge.html Radio 1 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:36:30 +0000 When we asked BBC journalists - a lot of them - what they most wanted the new BBC College of Journalism to do for them, one answer dominated the list: "Make me more confident about the Law". All conscientious journalists... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/understanding_the_law.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/understanding_the_law.html Legal issues Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:07:02 +0000 There are two problems with having your programme attacked by Martin Bell. One is that he's a distinguished former BBC foreign correspondent, so the defence of muttering "what would he know about news programmes anyway" is unavailable. The other is... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/under_attack.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/under_attack.html Six O'Clock News Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:40:31 +0000 There's always been a debate about what is and isn't acceptable on TV news programmes, and now that we have blogs, forums and podcasts it's only getting more complicated. And should Newsnight's on-line persona be exactly the same as that... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/inappropriate_lang.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/inappropriate_lang.html Newsnight Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:21:45 +0000 Some blogs, as well as emails we've received, have said that BBC correspondents are failing to report that when covering the war, they are operating under reporting restrictions imposed by Hezbollah. Others complain that we did not refer to Israeli... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_restrictions_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_restrictions_1.html Middle East Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:01:50 +0000 On Newsnight we've long hankered after our own website forum. With an opinionated, argumentative, computer-literate audience it's a marriage made in heaven. So, as we launched Talk about Newsnight this week our correspondents queued up to expose themselves to your... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/talk_about_scepticism.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/talk_about_scepticism.html Newsnight Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:15:21 +0000 A correspondent to the debate on the doctored photographs asks an interesting question about how the BBC is countering images from the public showing 'posed or inaccurate images'. We now receive around 300 images a week to our mailbox. Most... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/your_contributions.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/your_contributions.html BBC News website Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:20:27 +0000