https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:02:14 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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 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 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 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 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 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 I began life working for the supermarket chain Sainsbury's. Chapter 1, paragraph 1 of "How to do retail" is the idea that the customer is always right! As maxims go, it's not a bad one - never forget the consumer... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/the_red_headscarf.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/the_red_headscarf.html BBC News 24 Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:51:48 +0000 So, I was pilloried by The Thunderer on Monday - that's Stephen Pollard's column in the Times - for having such enthusiasm for Hezbollah that I must in fact be the leader of this organisation. Quite a damning attack on... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/thundering_attack.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/thundering_attack.html Sunday AM Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:39:54 +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/the_statistics_of_war.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/the_statistics_of_war.html Ten O'Clock News Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:00:46 +0000 News developments in the Middle East routinely attract the attention of vigorous lobby groups on both sides. The conflict that has erupted so suddenly in Lebanon is no exception. We are accused of all sorts of twists and spins, such... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/graphic_images.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/graphic_images.html BBC News website Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:00:25 +0000 https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/vastly_different_views.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/vastly_different_views.html BBC World Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:05:18 +0000 The BBC Chairman Michael Grade joined us on the Breakfast set this morning. Thankfully his visit wasn't unannounced. Hugo Rifkind, in his Times diary, smells a rat. "It helps to own the airwaves when you have a case to make,"... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/interviewing_the_chairman.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/interviewing_the_chairman.html Breakfast Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:27:46 +0000