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Yes, it’s annoying when the UK weather is rubbish, but is it really grounds to lodge a complaint with the BBC?
Imagine you’ve been wronged by a TV show. Some inaccuracy, or omission, or annoyance has caused the irksome weevil of discontent to crawl through your television and burrow underneath your skin. You can’t rid of it. After days of muttering under your breath and scribbling beards and fangs all over the Radio Times, it’s still there. Nothing will soothe you. You're left with only one choice.
It’s time to lodge a complaint.
If that complaint relates to anything other than Editorial Standards, it may be passed up to the BBC Trust’s Complaints and Appeals Board (Cab), the final arbiter on general grievances since 2011. And thanks to BBC transparency, such complaints are available, anonymously, to see online.
A trawl through the...
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Yes, it’s annoying when the UK weather is rubbish, but is it really grounds to lodge a complaint with the BBC?
Imagine you’ve been wronged by a TV show. Some inaccuracy, or omission, or annoyance has caused the irksome weevil of discontent to crawl through your television and burrow underneath your skin. You can’t rid of it. After days of muttering under your breath and scribbling beards and fangs all over the Radio Times, it’s still there. Nothing will soothe you. You're left with only one choice.
It’s time to lodge a complaint.
If that complaint relates to anything other than Editorial Standards, it may be passed up to the BBC Trust’s Complaints and Appeals Board (Cab), the final arbiter on general grievances since 2011. And thanks to BBC transparency, such complaints are available, anonymously, to see online.
A trawl through the...
- 2/2/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Channel4
Everyone has an opinion when it comes to the world’s most popular illegal substance. It splits opinions with many people believing the plant and its derivatives should be legalised and regulated, while others believe there are many underlying problems caused by consuming the class B drug.
A channel 4 show in the UK hosted by Dr. Christian Jessen and news personality Jon Snow recently got 20 volunteers to take cannabis, some for the first time to compile comprehensive results. The volunteers included public figures like former BBC royal correspondent Jenny Bond, journalist and former tory MP Matthew Parris, a former undercover drug detective Neil Woods as well as Jon Snow himself. Each were studied while under the influence, and were subject to tests including Mri scans and audible hallucination tests.
The results varied greatly between the users, from Neil Woods expressing how it gave him the urge to listen to some 80’s hip-hop,...
Everyone has an opinion when it comes to the world’s most popular illegal substance. It splits opinions with many people believing the plant and its derivatives should be legalised and regulated, while others believe there are many underlying problems caused by consuming the class B drug.
A channel 4 show in the UK hosted by Dr. Christian Jessen and news personality Jon Snow recently got 20 volunteers to take cannabis, some for the first time to compile comprehensive results. The volunteers included public figures like former BBC royal correspondent Jenny Bond, journalist and former tory MP Matthew Parris, a former undercover drug detective Neil Woods as well as Jon Snow himself. Each were studied while under the influence, and were subject to tests including Mri scans and audible hallucination tests.
The results varied greatly between the users, from Neil Woods expressing how it gave him the urge to listen to some 80’s hip-hop,...
- 3/5/2015
- by Jonny Birks
- Obsessed with Film
There was a terrific reminder last night of the brilliant investigative and campaigning journalism of Granada TV's World In Action in the 35 years from 1963 until 1998.
ITV1 screened a 90-minute documentary showing a variety of the highlights from the series with contributions from past editors - such as Ray Fitzwalter, John Birt, Leslie Woodhead, Steve Boulton and Ian McBride - plus a former editor, Paul Greengrass, cameraman George Jesse Turner, researcher Michael Apted and Granada's ex-chairman Sir Denis Forman.
Among about the programmes they spoke about, with understandable pride, were those that helped to effect genuine changes, such as the release of the innocent Birmingham Six, the reuniting of Anwar Ditta with her three children and the exposures of John Poulson and Reginald Maudling.
As Greengrass pointed out, it was the mixture of journalism and film-making that made the programmes so popular and so successful. It is fair to say World In Action...
ITV1 screened a 90-minute documentary showing a variety of the highlights from the series with contributions from past editors - such as Ray Fitzwalter, John Birt, Leslie Woodhead, Steve Boulton and Ian McBride - plus a former editor, Paul Greengrass, cameraman George Jesse Turner, researcher Michael Apted and Granada's ex-chairman Sir Denis Forman.
Among about the programmes they spoke about, with understandable pride, were those that helped to effect genuine changes, such as the release of the innocent Birmingham Six, the reuniting of Anwar Ditta with her three children and the exposures of John Poulson and Reginald Maudling.
As Greengrass pointed out, it was the mixture of journalism and film-making that made the programmes so popular and so successful. It is fair to say World In Action...
- 1/8/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Margaret Thatcher wasn't 'half-hysterical' leader film portrays, says former Tory MP – but reviewers rave regardless
It has drawn ecstatic notices from early screenings, but Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady has been dismissed by one of the former prime minister's most loyal supporters, Norman Tebbit.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the one-time Conservative party chairman and trade and industry secretary said he failed to recognise the woman on screen as his former leader. He also said he was surprised that the film's director and screenwriter, Phyllida Lloyd and Abi Morgan, had not spoken to him about his experiences working with Thatcher by way of research.
"You might think that if you were setting out to make a so-called 'biopic' about such a dominant figure on the political stage of the late 20th century, your researchers would have sought out those who were closest to her...
It has drawn ecstatic notices from early screenings, but Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady has been dismissed by one of the former prime minister's most loyal supporters, Norman Tebbit.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the one-time Conservative party chairman and trade and industry secretary said he failed to recognise the woman on screen as his former leader. He also said he was surprised that the film's director and screenwriter, Phyllida Lloyd and Abi Morgan, had not spoken to him about his experiences working with Thatcher by way of research.
"You might think that if you were setting out to make a so-called 'biopic' about such a dominant figure on the political stage of the late 20th century, your researchers would have sought out those who were closest to her...
- 11/16/2011
- by Norman Tebbit, Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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