https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/ en-us Copyright 2006 Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:15:50 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss One of the programmes I edit, Broadcasting House, really irritates some listeners. There is a small but vocal section of Radio Four devotees who just do not accept the fundamental proposition - that you can have fun as well as... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/is_news_funny.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/is_news_funny.html Radio news Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:15:50 +0000 If we're not careful, it's going to become something of a theme. Last week the Six O'Clock News ran a piece showing a dangerous game being played by teenagers on a playground roundabout - in which a motorbike engine was... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/copycat_concerns.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/copycat_concerns.html Six O'Clock News Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:13:17 +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 Andy is a bathroom fitter. He's young - a keen Radio 1 listener with a wife and two small children. I spent some time with him recently - not because he's doing my bathroom - but because I went to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/sex_and_radio_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/sex_and_radio_1.html Radio 1 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:16:19 +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 Nipple clamps, group sex and swingers' clubs. Grist to the tabloids' mill perhaps, but the BBC? Covering Tommy Sheridan's defamation action against the News of the World was always going to be a challenge in terms of taste and decency.... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/taste_and_decency.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/taste_and_decency.html Radio Scotland Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:15:52 +0000 Many listeners are concerned about the graphic content of some our radio reports. This is an example of editing on the grounds of taste. The original report came from our correspondent in Baghdad, and dealt with a video that showed... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/graphic_words.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/graphic_words.html Radio news Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:36:39 +0000 Words, as any journalist knows, can be loaded. One which has cropped up and led to lots of conversations in some blogs is "dhimmi". It's not a very well-known word (it's not in the Oxford English Dictionary, for instance), but... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/no_offence_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/07/no_offence_1.html Interactive News Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:49:19 +0000 We've long since ceased to be amazed at the near real-time delivery of news. And modern life has been conducted in the full gaze of the media for such a long time it's become routine. So it's difficult to imagine... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/wartime_reporting.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/wartime_reporting.html BBC News website Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:01:43 +0000 We had an exclusive from our medical correspondent yesterday - an interview with Ryan Wilson. He was one of the young men who reacted almost fatally to a drug being tested in a trial at Northwick Park. It was a... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/losing_fingers.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/losing_fingers.html Six O'Clock News Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:48:57 +0000 Five Live is The World Cup Station: 'Every game live'. But when we chew over the remains of the day, after dark, there's plenty of room for news as well as footy. In fact with action in Germany dominating most... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/life_and_death.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/life_and_death.html Radio news Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:44:39 +0000 Following Kevin's posting about swearing on News 24, we also used the F-word on PM yesterday at about seven minutes past five in the afternoon. However, we did not do it by accident. We chose to do it. My initial... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/more_swearing.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/more_swearing.html Radio news Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:32:51 +0000 In a news conference this morning given by the two men arrested - and now released - after the Forest Gate raid, some strong language was used. One of the men, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, said: "He [a policeman] just kicked... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/risk_of_swearing.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/risk_of_swearing.html Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:07:09 +0000 David Cameron's remarks about hip-hop lyrics and Radio 1 - which triggered strong rebuttals from the station's executives - also prompted our biggest audience interaction for a while, both on Radio 1 itself and sister station 1Xtra (which specialises in... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/sharp_lyrics.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/sharp_lyrics.html Radio news Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:42:46 +0000 The Governors are funky dudes. Or their programme complaints committee is, at least. Their latest complaints bulletin rules that Radio 1's Chris Moyles wasn't being homophobic when he called a ringtone "gay". Young people - apparently - now routinely say... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/strong_language.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/06/strong_language.html Taste & Decency Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:23:23 +0000