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Wednesday, 18 April, 2007

  • Newsnight
  • 18 Apr 07, 06:44 PM

bombblog.jpgIraq blasts; Sellafield body parts inquiry; US shootings latest; and cricket.

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Brilliant Jeremy on Newsnight (17/10) - particularly with Prof Finbar Cotter & Prof John Harris on the body parts enquiry and with Samir Sumidaie on the latest atrocities in Baghdad. However the best of the night was on the England cricket team. I howled with laughter when Jeremy announced that the new sponsors of the team were Adidas, but pointed out that a firm of rubbish contractors would have been more appropriate!Ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

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  • At 01:38 PM on 19 Apr 2007,
  • csharp wrote:

more trouble at world bank according to wed lords hansard.

>>Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty’s Government:

Whether they will seek the removal of the managing director of the World Bank following reported attempts to delete references to contraception from the bank’s Madagascar country assistance programme.<<


apparently the concern is that the removal of contraception [in an aids region of the world] was down to a suspicion that religious reasons are used to cut programmes at the world bank .

UN, IMF,World bank. Are they showing their age? What could replace them?

Need a story? Lords Hansard is usually a good place to see Ambridge at play.

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  • At 04:24 PM on 21 Apr 2007,
  • Brassa wrote:

I am worrying about how well we our served by our news programmes.

When someone blows up 100 civilians in Iraq – do the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ get anyone behind the atrocity to face the cameras and give an explanation of how they reconcile such actions with their religion / principles etc?

Gees we'd love too but.. insurgents / Islamic terrorists / hardline religious leaders don't grant access or give interviews to journalists. So, how does the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ ensure it provides balanced coverage of events in Iraq?

If war zone journalists fail to extract frequent interviews with such protagonists (due to a reluctance to expose themselves to kidnapping and death) then they provide an unbalanced account of events.

Equally - how does the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ avoid too much emphasis on Western agencies / and governments given their willingness to oblige the media (granting interviews, taking questions, owning up to stuff).

What techniques have the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ used to compensate for this unequal representation and what measure is made of their success?

Is it true that only some types of agencies, perhaps Al-Jazeera, are able to penetrate both sides of the story - and meet this type of challenge?

If creating / measuring the balance of coverage is as problematic as it seems to be, as an honest broker shouldn't the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ sometimes advise audiences to refer to other channels?

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