Newswatch
| 10:43 UK time, Monday, 10 September 2007
In this week's Newswatch, the programme which discusses viewers' complaints about Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News, Sue Nix, a senior editor at News 24, responds to the suggestion that the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana's death isn't news.
Also, College of Journalism Editor Kevin Marsh talks about the importance of reporting military terminology correctly and Business Editor Robert Peston discusses the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's business coverage.
You can watch the programme here.
Comments
Why is Saturday evening's edition of Click always being taken off air? We've had it taken off because a news item that hasn't come in properly and turns out to be a damp squib takes over the time with the newsreaders drivelling on about something where no information is in yet. Then we've had items shown in a foreign language and the newsreaders telling us that their interpreters have not had enough time to subtitle/interpret it yet and now we have yet another edition of highlights of Question Time 'highlights' replacing it. Question Time already has a prime time slot on Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú1 so surely highlights don't need to be shown again at prime time. Some of us are not up at 4:30am in the morning and are busy during the day. I really am wondering why it is worth having a TV set at all if this keeps happening. I'm getting to the point where I could quite easily appear on a programme where I've got to give up TV.
Not only that we are now getting programmes repeated 3 times a week. Take Michael Palin's New Europe for example. The number of times it's on makes you wonder whether he's got shares in the company or are you just trying to tell an audience that 'we will like these countries'. If anything it will rub people up the wrong way and make people even more dogmatic and divided on how they feel.