Good stuff, BBC
The BBC Trust has announced this morning that it is its abandoning plans for an online video service - and hats off to them.
Newspaper groups around the country - including The Journal's owners Trinity Mirror - had protested that the hyper-local service put local newspapers at risk at a time when they are already struggling.
Some had even argued that if the BBC went ahead with the plans that newspaper groups should be allowed part of the licence fee so they could compete fairly.
The National Union of Journalists and broadcast union Bectur were in favour of the scheme, but in this case I think they were wrong.
Apart from anything else, quite a proportion of stories on the BBC are originated by local newspapers and they could have been in danger of harming the quality of their own output by threatening the viability of local papers.
As we have seen over the last few weeks, the printed press spends a lot of time slagging off the BBC. There is a certain amount of hypocrisy in this as media groups are protecting their own interest a lot of the time.
So after making a good decision on their video service, let's hope they make another good one in relation to the Russell Brand/Jonathon Ross affair. It was a rubbish and fairly tasteless joke, but national newspapers who are happy to publish details of people's sex lives shouldn't be allowed to use it to neuter BBC comedy.
Older/Newer
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Good stuff, BBC.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blogs.journallive.co.uk/cgi-bin/mt421/mt-tb.cgi/95624
1 Comments
Leave a comment
Blog Authors
Glove Affair - Olympic boxing medallist Tony Jeffries
Website
My postings |
My feed
Pauls Apart - The Journal's NUFC-mad Paul James and SAFC fanatic Paul Loraine go head to head
My postings |
My feed
Anna Heywood - Environment campaigner Anna Heywood writes on ethical living
My postings |
My feed
Brenda Boyd - the life and times of a morris dancer
My postings |
My feed
Karen Overbury - our homemaker editor writes and answers questions about property
My postings |
My feed
Zainab Radhi - on life after leaving Tyneside for Iraq
My postings |
My feed
Jon Half-Ironman - The Journal's Jon Tunney on training for the athletic event of his life
Find me on Facebook or Twitter
My postings |
MapMyRun
| My feed
Liz Lamb - talks about fashion
My postings |
My feed
Graeme Whitfield - The Journal's Graeme Whitfield takes you behind the headlines in his newsroom blog
My postings |
My feed
Write Said Fred - view from the pram with toddler Fred Telfer
My postings |
My feed
Tim Taylor - The Journal's Golf Blog Club
My postings |
My feed
Kasia Bobrzak - writes a blog for the Polish community
Website
My postings |
My feed
The Cheeky Winkle Adventures - Lily and Toby go Geocaching
My postings |
My feed
Will in Whitehall - The Journal's Political Editor on life at Westminster
My postings |
My feed
Adrian Pearson - The Journal's Regional Affairs Correspondent with a look behind the scenes of North East politics
My postings |
My feed
Mieka Smiles - our City Living columnist on the ups and downs of young married life
My postings |
My feed
Francesca Craggs - on tying the knot, tantrums and tiaras
My postings |
My feed
Hannah Davies - on life as a new mum
My postings |
My feed
David Matthews - on health and safety gone mad
My postings |
My feed
Alan Tilmouth - on birding in the North East
Website
My postings |
My feed
Mark Robertson - of the Northumberland Cheese Company on artisan food
My postings |
My feed
Marc Vargas - an exiled Catalonian writes about life in the North
My postings |
My feed
John Mackay - Local GP John Mackay writes about the NHS
My postings |
My feed
Tom Dodds - on transport matters
My postings |
My feed
David Brennan - from the website Enjoying Photography on taking good photos
My postings |
My feed
Malcolm Clarke - on life as a professional pool player
My postings |
My feed
Hear, hear - completely agree with everything you've said!