https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:15:34 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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 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 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 More aid workers were killed in July in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur than in the entire preceding three years - that was the stark statement from the UN and aid agencies this week. There has also been the... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/other_hot_spots.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/other_hot_spots.html World Tonight Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:10:00 +0000 As with any conflict, photographers are at the heart of the propaganda war - with both sides attempting to use the power of the camera to their own ends. Yesterday’s announcement by Reuters that it has withdrawn all the pictures... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/trusting_photos.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/trusting_photos.html BBC News website Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:59:12 +0000 Have you been emailed about the website showing Israeli children signing missiles? Or maybe the site which claims that the Qana photographs were staged? If you're like me you've probably been sent both. There is an enormous online campaign by... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/whos_telling_the_truth.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/whos_telling_the_truth.html Newsnight Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:05:43 +0000 A correspondent filed a piece on the reopening of the Bath Spa after a series of delays. She opened her dispatch with this sentence - "Many Bath residents will be having a sense of déjà vu". She went on to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/sense_of_deja_vu.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/sense_of_deja_vu.html Radio news Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:48:10 +0000 This war has all been about semantics and the failure to read the small print. As I write, our reporter in Brussels is filing on the EU foreign ministers meeting that's just ended - the gist of her report is... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_semantics.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/middle_east_semantics.html World Service Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:13:15 +0000 You would have had to have been in hibernation for the past few years to have missed the ascent of the environment up the news agenda. We have been suffering a heat wave this week that many people have found... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/environmental_changes.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/environmental_changes.html BBC journalists Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:30:40 +0000 The language of conflict has always given birth to euphemisms – collateral damage, kinetic targeting and ethnic cleansing are among the more recent entries to the argot of the times. George Orwell covered this ground in Politics and the English... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/in_the_buffer.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/in_the_buffer.html BBC News website Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:58:12 +0000