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…
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Anatomy of unedifying reporting
by Dominic O'Byrne •
Anatomy of unedifying reporting The scary experience of Lord McAlpine (convicted via Trial by Twitter of child rape some 20-odd years ago) will have shocked all reasonable people and has also rightly prompted columnists among the better papers to cast a beady eye over the business of citizen journalism. But a sense of perspective is…