A round-up of what's being said about the BBC in other blogs. Today, the announcement of a major restructuring of the BBC.
Buzzmachine:
"This is a big cultural change for the BBC... different tribes are being thrown in together and told they’d better get along." (link)
I'm Simon Dickson:
"It's further evidence that online production really isn’t that specialised any more... everything is ‘just content’." (link)
Plasticbag.org:
"Are you impressed by the BBC's progress? I'm not." (link)
Ninthspace:
"The BBC has given new media an expanded role... Great. Now go sort out your interactive TV service!" (link)
Blogger John Gibbard has written a report from the BBC governors' meeting in Norwich (which took place last Thursday - BBC News report here).
He's pretty sure he was the only blogger there... but if you know otherwise, leave a link in the comments.
A round-up of what's being said about the BBC in other blogs. Today, the launch of this site.
CBS Public Eye: "It appears BBC News is hopping on the transparency bandwagon." (link)
BuzzMachine: "The BBC's new editors' blog is another move toward transparency by another big news organization and I’m glad to see it." (link)
jamesAntenne: "We’ll have to see what sort of comments make it on to the blog." (link)
Quite Random: "Comments on The Editors are peppered with spelling mistakes... everywhere you look, glaringly poor English." (link)
The Gorse Fox: "I wonder if the blog will include dilemmas and issues regarding truth and bias." (link)
I'm Simon Dickson: "There’s a risk of the editors blog becoming a bit too Points Of View, but another positive step." (link)
A selection of comments being made about the BBC on blogs around the world...
• Adam Smith Institute: "Some BBC staff are reportedly annoyed that something which would in the past have been fixed by a couple of workmen in a cradle has degenerated into an expensive and long-running farce" (link).
• Idents.tv :"I really like the BBC News sets" (link).
• Chris Doidge: "The BBC is supposed to be 'ours', yet at the moment is greatly detached from society in many respects" (link).
• Standing in other people’s shoes: "I love this audience analysis from Newsnight editor Peter Barron - I suspect I might actually be a dedicated loyalist" (link).
A selection of comments being made about the BBC on blogs around the world...
• Richard H's blog: "When I checked my email just now I found an e-mail titled "Interview request from BBC, Today..." (link).
• Tom Morris: "What the BBC don't seem to understand is that user-generated content is happening all around them" (link).
• L'Ombre de l'Olivier: "The BBC's "From Our Own Correspondent" used to be a flagship program but right now it seems to be more a flagship example of BBC bias" (link)
• The Medium is Not Enough: "The BBC planned to turn itself into Italian TV for charity" (link).
• John Pilger on Comment is Free: "The BBC Ten O'Clock News last night wasn't news: it was a series of pronouncements by the spokespeople of the spokespeople" (link).
The Times reports that on Monday, News 24 mistakenly interviewed a taxi driver thinking he was Guy Kewney, an expert on the Apple Corps v Apple Computer court case. (Link, and the real Guy Kewney's blog)
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