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 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 So just how do you get Abu Izzadeen, the man who loudly heckled the home secretary at a speech on Wednesday, to appear on the Today Programme? And should he even have been on in the first place? Today reporter... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/smelling_the_coffee_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/smelling_the_coffee_1.html Today Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:11:27 +0000 I saw a fascinating vision of the future (or do I mean the present?) on the seafront in Brighton this week. It happened on the day Charles Kennedy addressed the Liberal Democrat party conference. Our reporter, Sean Curran, went to... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/who_ate_my_lunch.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/09/who_ate_my_lunch.html Radio news Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:28:54 +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'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 Cricket is only a game! The e-mailer, complaining to us at the Today progamme that the ball tampering row was our lead item, wanted us to be crystal clear about this - as if the exclamation mark wasn't emphasis enough... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/news_tampering.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/news_tampering.html Today Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:36:58 +0000 It's like picking your nose with a rubber glove on. That was one Radio 1 listener's description of having sex wearing a condom. We've been involved in carrying out the largest ever survey into the sex lives of young Britons... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/safe_sex_attitudes.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/safe_sex_attitudes.html Radio 1 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:06:13 +0000 It's all been pretty confusing for passengers - just exactly what can you take as hand luggage on a plane? So some bright spark on the Six O'Clock News came up with the idea of making our own baggage size... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/checking_hand_luggage.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/checking_hand_luggage.html Six O'Clock News Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:41:13 +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 One of our concerns in covering today's events has been to make sure traffic load to the News website doesn't cause problems for our users. So far our technical team have successfully made sure it hasn't, but traffic certainly has... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/managing_demand.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/managing_demand.html BBC News website Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:40:48 +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 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