Showing posts with label 'Newswatch'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Newswatch'. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 July 2022

'Complaints from both sides' time again

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This week's Newswatch , minus Samira Ahmed, began with a classic example of 'complaints from both sides'. First, entering Stage ...
Saturday, 9 July 2022

The BBC bending the truth again

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As I posted on Tuesday, it took 36 minutes from the news of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid's resignations breaking on the BBC News website ...
Saturday, 2 July 2022

“This debate feels as old as the hills”

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I don't thnk this week's discussion of BBC impartiality on Newswatch did the programme great credit. Former BBC boss Mark Damazar a...
Saturday, 25 June 2022

'Newswatch', 24 June 2022 - Transcript of interview with Dominic Casciani

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Samira Ahmed : Hello and welcome to Newswatch with me, Samira Ahmed. How should BBC journalists describe people crossing the English Chann...
Saturday, 5 March 2022

The BBC and the Russian invasion of Ukraine [and an EXCLUSIVE behind-the-scenes glimpse of an ITBB discussion]

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Craig : The BBC is being praised to the skies for its war coverage, and not only by itself and the usual suspects. Not that I've seen  a...
Saturday, 12 February 2022

“Why is the BBC saying Boris’s Savile claims are false?”

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“ Why is the BBC saying Boris’s Savile claims are false? ”  asked The Spectator this week : Is Boris Johnson’s claim that Keir Starmer fail...
Saturday, 22 January 2022

Fran's last outing

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     This week's Newswatch is worth a transcript.  It featured outgoing BBC director of news and current affairs Fran Unsworth and got ...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

On Newswatch

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Someone copied Samira Ahmed into a tweet this morning which encapsulates what many of us have said here over the years about the BBC's ...
Saturday, 27 November 2021

A rare BBC apology on 'Newswatch'. Guess what for?

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Newswatch this week continued to focus on language, also discussing whether BBC News should ever call Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko ...

'Migrants', 'immigrant immigrants', 'people'?

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This week's Newswatch discussed the issue of whether it's wrong to call the people crossing the Channel in small boats 'migran...
Saturday, 20 November 2021

Thank heaven for small mercies

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  Watching this week's Newswatch with Samira Ahmed was a strange experience.  The concerns discussed included whether the BBC should ha...
Saturday, 2 October 2021

On Jonathan Munro, the petrol pump panic and Carolyn's sister-in-law

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  This week's 'I think we got it about right' BBC editor on  Newswatch was Jonathan Munro, the BBC's Deputy Director of New...
Saturday, 18 September 2021

Sloppiness

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  Luxmy Gopal, not the first female newsreader This week's Newswatch with Samira Ahmed began with viewers complaining about BBC journa...
Saturday, 13 February 2021

BBC watchdog programme 'parked'

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  Talking about Samira Ahmed... She sent out a tweet on 8 January that read, "I am very sorry to report that BBC Newswatch has been t...
Saturday, 28 November 2020

"Do you ever feel that you are being played?"

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For transcript fans, here's one featuring the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam talking to Samira Ahmed on this week's Newswat...