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Watched the regular news review on Saturday BBC Breakfast which had a feature on the yearly media seminar at Edinburgh.
One of the main subjects was about lifting the requirement for impartial and balanced TV news reporting that affects all domestic TV channels - three journalists were interviewed for their views including Trevor Kavanagh who obviously works for Murdoch's empire and could be seen as a mouthpiece.
I wanted to ask a couple of questions to European posters -
Personally, I think it is important that impartiality is maintained in the major outlets - I do think Murdoch is trying to push for differentiation and more openess as he wants to make money from news and if everyone is doing impartial news then the viewer simply picks the most qualitative source.
An "editorial" slot or a more personal and separate news slot could work - the journalists all felt we wouldn't go down the US route where you find some of the more colourful characters - but I would want to see two opposing editiorials / journalists present the programme. I also think any such programme should be as close to prime time viewing as possible.
There is a very late slot with Michael Portillo and Dianne Abbot which is presented by ex Times editor Andrew Neill: I don't get to watch "This Week" very often and it's primarily UK Politics so I think this format could be the basis where a wider news remit could be allowed.
One of the main subjects was about lifting the requirement for impartial and balanced TV news reporting that affects all domestic TV channels - three journalists were interviewed for their views including Trevor Kavanagh who obviously works for Murdoch's empire and could be seen as a mouthpiece.
I wanted to ask a couple of questions to European posters -
- Would you watch news that had obvious partial views?
- Currently, journalists are scrutinised by Ofcom but they are free to write and post very partial internet blogs where their personal views can be expressed - should we allow TV journalists put their personal views more openly on news programmes?
Personally, I think it is important that impartiality is maintained in the major outlets - I do think Murdoch is trying to push for differentiation and more openess as he wants to make money from news and if everyone is doing impartial news then the viewer simply picks the most qualitative source.
An "editorial" slot or a more personal and separate news slot could work - the journalists all felt we wouldn't go down the US route where you find some of the more colourful characters - but I would want to see two opposing editiorials / journalists present the programme. I also think any such programme should be as close to prime time viewing as possible.
There is a very late slot with Michael Portillo and Dianne Abbot which is presented by ex Times editor Andrew Neill: I don't get to watch "This Week" very often and it's primarily UK Politics so I think this format could be the basis where a wider news remit could be allowed.