Richard Sambrook : SacredFacts

Can the rest ofus have our planet back?

If you missed Marcus Brigstocke's comic rant against the Abrahamic faiths on The Now Show, you can find it here. It's seven minutes in total - but the first three are inspired.

Strangely not as many complaints as one might have anticipated - that's the benefit of being even handed I guess....

links for 2007-07-28

• Goodbye to Newspapers? - The New York Review of Books
  Review of two books on the travails of the US news business
  (tags: USA newspapers internet digital future)
• A Northern New Jersey of the Mind - The New York Review of Books
  Considering The Sopranos
  (tags: sopranos NYRB)
• Byrne Baby Byrne » A week for analysing the media
  Colin B agrees comment is the future
  (tags: news future digital)
• The talk radio formula
  `Adrian Monck n Talk Radio
  (tags: talkradio monck)
• Doc the Elder
  David Weinberger believes Doc Searls 60th birthday means he's due some respect. R E S P E C T...
  (tags: weinberger searls)
• So the BBC is a subversive leftwing conspiracy? You could've fooled me
  Simon Jenkins on the BBC's latest travails
  (tags: BBC Jenkins)
• British News Sites Get Third Of Readers From U.S.
  More on the City Uni research into US audiences for UK content
  (tags: USA digital internet news)
• …My heart’s in Accra » The 5-4-3 double play, or “The Art of Conference Blogging”
  Ethan Z on how to live blog
  (tags: blogging live)
• Translating the network evening news to the Web
  ABCNews.com - video news for the web
  (tags: ABC USA digital news TV)
• ITV to launch citizen journalism platform
  (tags: ITV CitizenJournalism)
• Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers
  networks not destinations
  (tags: web internet news networks digital future web2.0)
• Kristine Lowe: Get those bloggers on board: public broadcaster hires expert bloggers
  Seems like a good idea to me
  (tags: blogs public broadcasting)
• Jeff Randall - BBC needs management clear out
  Jeff says the BBC is lions led by donkeys.
  (tags: BBC jeff Randall.)
• Who Needs the BBC?
  Geoffrey Wheatcroft in The Atlantic 6 years ago,
  (tags: BBC theatlantic)

Back Now

So in the ten days I was away the whole BBC fake programmes row blew up - providing plenty of ammunition for BBC-bashers and plenty of hand wringing internally. Not much more to say about it but of the many things I read here are some I agreed with:

Matthew Parris on the authenticity crisis of our age.
Simon Jenkins on why the BBC matters.
Steve Hewlett on the history of deception in British TV.
And the Richard Ayre Ofcom inquiry report bears reading in full.

Art and reality

I enjoyed the first episode of Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip - even though all my american friends tells me it goes off. In particular, the opening tribute to Peter Finch in Network with the producers on air rant against lobotomised TV. And when it was over I switched to the programme guide to find something else to watch: "Darts Players Wives", "Pissed and Pregnant", "Old and Queer". So I took Studio 60's advice, and switched off.

(Btw this doesn't mean there isn't a lot of great TV around - there just wasn't at that moment...)

It ain't pretty.

It ain't pretty.:

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links for 2007-07-27

• Adrian Monck -US audience for British news
  BBC News website gets more US readers than Fox News, USA Today,
  (tags: USA internet news digital)

links for 2007-07-26

• Digital investment:it’s no con, it’s a fact of life. Get used to it. at SimonWaldman.net
  Simon on newspaper investment
  (tags: digital newspapers future internet)

links for 2007-07-25

• BBC NEWS | The Editors
  Kevin marsh on the CNN/You Tube debates....
  (tags: cnn USA Youtube presidential)

links for 2007-07-20

• The Queen as entertainment
  Martin Moore on the faked RDF trailer
  (tags: BBC Queen RDF fake trailer)
• Martin Moore Blog: Queengate: Outrage or storm in a royal teacup?
  More (from) Martin
  (tags: BBC Queen RDF fake trailer)
• Martin Moore Blog: Media mea culpas - get used to it
  And finally MM on media accountability and the need for more transparency as a way through
  (tags: BBC media accountability transparency)
• Iraq: The Way to Go - The New York Review of Books
  Peer Galbraith on progress - and lack of - in Iraq
  (tags: Iraq NYRB)

links for 2007-07-18

• BBC NEWS | The Editors
  Liliane Landor on the World Serivce. Interesting comments...
  (tags: BBC worldservice)
• For News Buffs, World Events on Instant DVDs - New York Times
  ABC news archives for customised sale
  (tags: ABC news digital)
• The Daily Mash - RUSSIA TO WITHDRAW 400 LAP DANCERS
  The satiric news site reports a possible development in the diplomatic row. Well it made me laugh...
  (tags: dailymash)
• robcurley.com » washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app
  Rob Curley on how the Washington Post uses facebook
  (tags: facebook washingtonpost internet digital newspapers future)