Comments on: Bad taste, good radio? http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:56:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jon http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/#comment-117 Jon Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:07:26 +0000 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/#comment-117 He didn't consult anyone, James, but then the slot is inside his programme, plus it didn't change the editorial content because the actual information was moved into the cue. I think my complaint is more a stylistic than an editorial one. As far as people who aren't interested in news go, Claire, I'm not sure that giving them more spectacle will get them engaged. But then I don't know anybody who isn't interested in news, even the mums on the school run seem to be, but maybe they're just humouring me. He didn’t consult anyone, James, but then the slot is inside his programme, plus it didn’t change the editorial content because the actual information was moved into the cue. I think my complaint is more a stylistic than an editorial one.
As far as people who aren’t interested in news go, Claire, I’m not sure that giving them more spectacle will get them engaged. But then I don’t know anybody who isn’t interested in news, even the mums on the school run seem to be, but maybe they’re just humouring me.

]]> By: Clair http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/#comment-116 Clair Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:02:28 +0000 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/#comment-116 I'm with you on this one. If it's a reporters' job to report the facts, then that killing was a fact, and why whitewash it? I do feel that in general, we are being too wrapped in cotton-wool by the news, and media in general. If listeners and viewers were confronted by the real human stories which are happening, I do think it would make those people who find it hard to get involved with news and current affairs think about the world a bit more. I’m with you on this one. If it’s a reporters’ job to report the facts, then that killing was a fact, and why whitewash it? I do feel that in general, we are being too wrapped in cotton-wool by the news, and media in general. If listeners and viewers were confronted by the real human stories which are happening, I do think it would make those people who find it hard to get involved with news and current affairs think about the world a bit more.

]]> By: James http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/#comment-115 James Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:51:22 +0000 http://www.ditdotdat.org/bigcity/2006/10/bad-taste-good-radio/#comment-115 Jon, I've been talking about regulation and guidelines in the media with some of my students so I'm really interested in this. I'd like to know a bit more about how the decision to cut the opening of the programme was made. In your account it sounds as if one person acting alone made the decision. Did they seek advice from Editorial Policy? Was Kim Ghattas consulted at all? Jon,

I’ve been talking about regulation and guidelines in the media with some of my students so I’m really interested in this. I’d like to know a bit more about how the decision to cut the opening of the programme was made. In your account it sounds as if one person acting alone made the decision. Did they seek advice from Editorial Policy? Was Kim Ghattas consulted at all?

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