John Humphry's on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning on the Carol Thatcher "golliwog" row which has led to her being axed from the BBC's 'The One Show': "We wanted to talk to the BBC but the BBC wouldn't talk to us."
This always sounds so bad on a programme that when it says "we asked a Government minister to talk to us but they declined" leaves the listener with the impression the Government or the minister has something to hide.
BBC management should realise not putting up someone to defend itself on its own news programmes is just very bad PR.
The BBC refused to put up anyone on BBC Radio 4's PM programme to defend itself against MP John Pugh's Early Day Motion motion accusing it too much "recession woe" in covering the economic crisis. It also refused to put up anyone on BBC Radio 4's Feedback programme to answer listeners' claims that business editor Robert Peston's gloomy reports were causing panic in the markets.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Cities could be without own news for first time since the Enlightenment, warns Rusbridger
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger warned today that the crisis engulfing the regional newspaper industry could lead to titles closing and leave cities without their own indigenous news for the first time since the Enlightenment.
Rusbridger, interviewed about the newspaper crisis on this morning's BBC Radio 4's Today programme said he believed the local press was facing the biggest challenge and warned: "We have to face up to the prospect that for the first time since the Enlightenment major cities in the UK and in Western democracies will be left without any kind of verifiable news. That hasn't happend for 200 to 300 years. I think it will have very profound implications."
He also claimed that newspapers with paternalistic owners, like the Barclay brothers, Murdoch or O'Reilly or controlled by a trust, like The Guardian, would be in a better position to weather the storm than those in conventional share ownership which are more exposed to the pressure of the financial markets.
Rusbridger, interviewed about the newspaper crisis on this morning's BBC Radio 4's Today programme said he believed the local press was facing the biggest challenge and warned: "We have to face up to the prospect that for the first time since the Enlightenment major cities in the UK and in Western democracies will be left without any kind of verifiable news. That hasn't happend for 200 to 300 years. I think it will have very profound implications."
He also claimed that newspapers with paternalistic owners, like the Barclay brothers, Murdoch or O'Reilly or controlled by a trust, like The Guardian, would be in a better position to weather the storm than those in conventional share ownership which are more exposed to the pressure of the financial markets.
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