The BBC lack of judgment in treating IS fairly weakens their case to keep or even increase the licence fee. And how very aberrant of the broadcaster to choose this time and this topic to return to anachronistic notions of fair play, after over a generation of allegedly espousing a modernizing crusade in broadcasting –…
How high does this Jeremy Clarkson thing stink, and why has nobody pointed out the glaring anomaly in news reporting? Jeremy Clarkson and BBC performances are word-perfect, as they play out the roles which the Ancients of Portland Place foretold. It was the mid-1970s. Boys of a certain age were wearing baggies, duck-feet shoes, denim…
Whether an apocryphal story or not, an old tale among broadcasters goes that the clerks in charge of the BBC commissioned a survey (likely a time and motion study – before the Birtian nomenclature of Blue Sky Thinking had its dawn), and the findings were along the lines that the corporation would run at its…
The story goes that convicted fraudster and corporate bully-of-note Gerald Ronson had a singular way of keeping in touch with his management team. He would isolate a target and contrive a scenario where just the two were together – a privileged ride in GR’s limo or in a lift, for example. Allowing not even seconds…