https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:25:42 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss There are 193 countries in the World, not including Taiwan. The BBC is excluded from just a handful. So the news that the big story of the day is happening beyond our reach is problematic. The North Koreans dropped a... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/beyond_reach.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/10/beyond_reach.html International news Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:25:42 +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 If you'd been watching BBC World at 23:50 GMT last night, you would have seen a report about the Thai prime minister arriving in London, after flying from the United Nations in New York. Except in Thailand, however. There, just... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/thai_censorship.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/thai_censorship.html BBC World Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:44:17 +0000 BBC News has bureaux in 39 foreign cities - but only in one can we go anywhere, anytime and broadcast live for radio and television using the web. So where is this technological nirvana - Tokyo, Los Angeles, Brussels? The... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/technological_nirvana.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/technological_nirvana.html BBC journalists Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:35:12 +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 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 So - we awake to news that a major terror plot has been thwarted. Security sources claim that the group, who have been under surveillance for months, wanted to explode as many as 10 planes, probably somewhere over the Atlantic.... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/terror_questions.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/terror_questions.html Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:01:41 +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 Up on the seventh floor of BBC Television Centre sits a small, but perfectly formed, group of people who spend their lives killing people off. They're expert in what they do. But don't panic - they don't do anything illegal.... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/cuban_coverage.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/cuban_coverage.html International news Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:16:18 +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