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Children and Reality TV |
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Role of the Press in the Banking Crisis |
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20 Year Anniversary of Sky |
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Comments on Today's Programme |
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Children and Reality TV:
What a sad reflection on society that thousands of calls and complaints can be made about Jonathan Ross and the phone incident, but apparently its ok to put children through this style of fly-on-the-wall big brother docu-soap. This borders on child neglect / cruelty. Foster carers and adopters who suggested they might do this with a child would be struck off any local authority registers. Shame on C4, Shame on parents for letting this happen.
David Grant
The Channel Four programme 'Boys And Girls Alone'has provoked accusations of child exploitation and breaching of Ofcom regulations concerning the filming of under-18s. It is interesting that there has never been such a reaction to Channel Four's successful reality series 'Wife Swap'.In this programme very young children are deliberately separated from their mothers for a week , placed for long periods of time in the care of a total stranger and frequently filmed in states of real distress and bewilderment.Toddlers are forced to witness the agressive verbal abuse which often occurs between their fathers and the new 'wife' , and are bullied into behaviours and routines they are unprepared for. The programme makers deliberately choose contributors who will guarantee volatile scenarios as these drive ratings. However, the emotional distress caused to the young children being filmed seems to be of little concern. When are these cynical production teams going to start really thinking about the feelings and rights of children? I think Ofcom should take a much tougher position on this issue.
Kate Potter
"We wanted to see how children behaved..." etc says the Channel 4 apologist. Short pithy word you probably can't broadcast on Radio 4 to that. They want a big audience to watch their latest exploitative, damaging idea. The cycnicism radiated through every sincere-sounding word she said.Not only will I not be watching it, it's enough to put me off watching Channel 4 at all - which does occasionally produce something worth watching. It would be a sacrifice worth making if I thought it would change their policy.
Richard York
I hope that some lawyers will get their act together, represent the children and sue the pants off the parents and the programme-makers for child ause
Anon
Sky:
Have only just listened to last week's podcast, so sorry for the delayed reaction. You said Sky pioneered PVRs - why does no one ever give TiVo proper credit? I know several friends who had this before Sky+ was invented, presumably to catch up.
A Keys
Ironic that after weeks of BBC self-flagellation, TMS now issues a paean of praise to Sky TV. As one of those who has never signed up for it, let me say that are many of us who continue to find it bland and inconsequential. Any chance of the critics of Sky getting the airtime on the show commonly accorded the opponents of the BBC?
Bob Davis
Financial Reporting:
Whilst the discussion is on whether the media went too far I remember in one of my other podcasts where they reported on a scandal where financial journalists, in order to maintain their relationship with a particular company, hid how bad its figures were and, consequently, were in the firing line when it crashed. I can't remember whether it was Radio New Zealand National's Mediawatch podcast or ABC Radio National's Media show (now discontinued).
The interrogation of journalists by politicians over their reports on the financial crisis was alarming, ludicrous and sinister. The Treasury Select Committee should have tackled the grievous faults of banks and their poor regulation long before the ship hit the iceberg. Instead,they're clinging to the sinking wreck, trying to blame those who sent out the distress signals. As a journalist, who has also been an elected politician (ex Scottish Parliament) I know something of both sides.I'd still put what remains of my money on journalism, despite its faults, being our best hope of exposure of anything. Yet now the banking crisis is being twisted into another attempt to shoot the messenger.
Dorothy-Grace Elder
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Future of DAB Radio
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17 December 2008
BBC Partnerships and media access to family courts
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Bush and the press and 1968 Apollo broadcast
31 December 2008
The Moralising Media
7 January 2009
Jeremy Hunt, Gaza Reporting and New Talent
14 January 2009
Prince Harry, Gaza, Persian TV and iPlayer
21 January 2009
Ofcom's PSB Review, Ross' return and British News
28 January 2009
Sir Michael Lyons, Hutton Report and New Nation
4 February 2009
Sky, Children and Reality TV and Financial Reporting
11 February 2009
BBC Children's Services, Jade Goody and Journalists' Conscience Clause
18 February 2009
Reporting Trauma, Subeditors and Teletext
25 February 2009
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Media and The Miners' Strike and ITV
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The Editors' Codebook, "Crown Jewels" of British Sport and Viviane Reding
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25 March 2009
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Steve Hewlett is a Guardian Columnist and broadcasting consultant. He is visiting Professor of Journalism and Broadcast policy at Salford University and a fellow of the Royal Television Society.
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‘Boys and Girls Alone’ a documentary in which ten boys and ten girls aged between eight and eleven live without their parents for two weeks, was aired for the first time last night on Channel 4. It has been criticised for exploiting children. Steve is joined by Commissioning Editor at Channel 4, Dominique Walker, and Eileen Hayes who is chair of the Media and Parenting Group.
The Treasury Select Committee is taking evidence this afternoon about the role of the press in the banking crisis and whether the media should operate under any form of reporting restrictions during periods of market turbulence. But are such restrictions really necessary? Steve is joined by Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers Association and former editor of The Sunday Telegraph, Patience Wheatcroft.
Twenty years ago tomorrow, Sky television was launched. Steve talks to Andrew Neil who launched the channel along with Rupert Murdoch back in February 1989 and media commentator Matthew Horsman, author of 'Sky High: The Inside Story of BSkyB'.
