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Public Service Broadcasting: A vital role at times of strife

Public Service Broadcasting: A vital role at times of strife. Nicholas Jones 11 July, 2013 www.nicholasjones.org.uk. Where do public service broadcasters gain their strength? .

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Public Service Broadcasting: A vital role at times of strife

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  1. Public Service Broadcasting: A vital role at times of strife Nicholas Jones 11 July, 2013 www.nicholasjones.org.uk

  2. Where do public service broadcasters gain their strength? • Structures within the BBC – in news gathering and programme presentation– are designed to ensure balanced reporting • A requirement that broadcasters offer equal opportunities for air time to both sides of a dispute – to trade unions and government • Editorial guidelines – setting out BBC’s values and standards – are constantly being updated

  3. How would a miners’ strike be reported by today’s BBC • Mobile phone images, online videos have transformed coverage of unrest across Arab world • Heavy handed policing on British picket lines, brutality in strikers’ communities would go viral • Challenge to BBC in reporting future unrest is to ensure activist and amateur footage from behind police lines gets airtime it deserves

  4. Is BBC becoming more cautious? • Chilling effect of Hutton Report on BBC reporting and Leveson Inquiry into press standards • Journalists’ confidence eroded by Newsnigh fiasco over Jimmy Saville and Lord McAlpine • James Harding, new director of news and current affairs, says BBC should be ambitious, not apologetic

  5. ERT closure – uncanny echo with BBC’s unprecedented financial squeeze • Greek government’s justification for taking ERT off the air in June 2013 was that it had become “a haven of waste” • Conservatives campaigned before 2010 general election for curbs on “bloated” BBC • Coalition government imposed six-year freeze on BBC income in October 2010, within months of taking office

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