Suits 2.0 at the BBC
Bureaucracy is the one sure winner in the BBC’s strategic review – the suits and wonks. It’s sort of like natural selection turned upside: in a changing environment, the most useless survive. Mark...
View ArticleWhy BBC3, BBC4?
Conservative culture front bencher Jeremy Hunt is asking what’s the point of BBC3 and BBC4? It’s a good time to ask the question. In an interview with the Independent, Hunt queried why £100m was being...
View ArticlePanorama on the Digital Economy Bill
BBC1′s flagship current affairs program was devoted to file sharing last night, and contained something to piss off a range of lobbyists. Usually when this happens, BBC producers often conclude...
View ArticleBBC, big business leer creepily at orphan works
Big publishers and the BBC have come out to lobby for the controversial Clause 43, that part of the Mandybill that strips photographers of their historical rights. Is that surprising? It should be,...
View ArticleBBC investigates Richard Madeley’s PC panic attack
Richard Madeley told the nation how the Government was going to whisk away his computer last week. The BBC has promised to investigate. The segment on Monday’s Simon Mayo drive time heard Madeley, who...
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Bloggers, mind control and the death of newspapers (the Internet imagined in...
Calder invites us to have a giggle, but really it’s not a bad list at all, and compared with the (cough) ‘futurists’ who have come and gone since, Calder and the participants did a good job. Alvin...
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The BBC struggles with the concept of ‘tech bubble’
The BBC has a real problem with social media. It’s delighted when something new appears. It slips into the patrician role that comes naturally to broadcasters – and especially the BBC. It can express...
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Are you a Nouveau-Reithian?
How to fund a great BBC … without creating 142,000 new criminals a year Not one Hollywood studio or record label company has ever incarcerated anyone merely for not paying for media consumption. A few...
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Compulsory coding in schools: The new Nerd Tourism
The writer Toby Young tells a story about how the modern 100m race is run in primary schools. At the starting pistol, everyone runs like mad. At the 50m point, the fastest children stop and wait for...
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Shoreditch’s sparkle leaves BBC presenter ‘tech-struck’
“I haven’t felt so good having spoken to a businessman for ten minutes in about 25 years. That’s not normally how I feel! So thanks very much!” And thanks to you, BBC presenter Fi Glover, for sharing...
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