Stewart Purvis
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Don't worry, a politician can't present the Today programme. Michael Grade is wrong about that – and GB News
During a review of his four years at Ofcom , the outgoing chair, Michael Grade, surprised his BBC Radio 4 interviewer. He had been asked by Katie Razzall whether Ofcom rules would allow a politician to present the Today programme apart from the news bulletins. She clearly did not expect him to answer: “Absolutely, absolutely, why not?” “Really?” replied a startled Media Show presenter. “Well, Nick Robinson might be out of a job.
Broadcasting history: The race to cover the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege
Nearly 45 years on, the climax of the Iranian Embassy siege in London on 5 May 1980 still excites TV producers and authors. Paramount+ is streaming Operation Nimrod, a documentary narrated by Tom Hardy and produced by Scottish indie Two Rivers. Ben Macintyre’s book The Siege, published last year, is being adapted for TV. And, by my count, this will be the fifth drama or documentary on the subject.
I’VE READ ALL 10,101 PAGES OF BBC BASHIRGATE EMAILS (SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO) AND WHY 1,737 OF THEM JUST SAY ‘LPP’
The most prominent initials in the documents released on January 30 are LPP, that’s Legal Professional Privilege. It appears on no fewer than 1,737 of the 10,101 pages, and that’s not including when it is expressed in a longer form as ‘Legal Privilege -s42’ a reference to Section 42 of the Freedom of Information Act which provides confidentiality for advice from lawyer to client.
Stewart Purvis' TV Diary
There’s a weekend call-up for the Dad’s Army of “BBC crisis” pundits. “Linekergate” is the 60th on the Wikipedia list of “BBC controversies”, and Mark Damazer, Richard Ayre, Roger Mosey, Roger Bolton and I are on parade across the nation’s various air-waves untangling “another fine mess”. The BBC’s football pundits and most of the commentators have walked out over the suspension of Gary Lineker for allegedly breaching the BBC guidelines on tweeting.
An old idea whose time has not come
PDF / ePub Officially, the Channel Four Corporation is an ALB (arm’s length body), Whitehall jargon for owned by the public but not run by the government, one of a shrinking list of businesses on HMG’s books that vary from the Ordnance Survey and The Royal Mint to the banks rescued during the financial crash, plus the company formally known as the Atomic Weapons Establishment.
GB News review: one-sided TV and proud of it
GB News review: one-sided TV and proud of it By Stewart Purvis 2021-06-14T09:38:00 The much-debated news channel has hit our screens with a few scores to settle, but does it offer something new, asks Stewart Purvis
Why the independent inquiry I called for into the Princess Diana interview has finally got to the truth but holds back on its conclusion.
In November last year, in an interview on the BBC Radio Four programme ‘Today’ I called for an ‘independent element’ in the Corporation’s promised inquiry into Earl Spencer’s claims that Martin Bashir used ‘dirty tricks’ to land his 1995 interview with Princess Diana. In response the BBC appointed a fully independent inquiry led by a former judge, Lord Dyson.
Exclusive: the documents that reveal John Major and Downing Street’s 1995 ‘stop Murdoch plan’.
This article appears in the September 2019 edition of the Royal Television Society journal ‘Television’: During these past twelve months Rupert Murdoch has been only half the man in the UK he used to be. But that’s only by one measure – Ofcom’s ‘share of references’ which calculates which news sources are consumed across different media. It was a year ago, September 2018, when the 87 year old’s long association with BSkyB came to an end.
A new take on Mark Thompson,Savile and the BBC
If you’ve read my first blog on a Savile timeline you may remember that I first got the idea after noticing one interesting fact in the Sunday Times a few weeks back and looking further into it. Well I’ve done the same thing after reading a story which appeared in the Sunday Times last weekend but surprisingly doesn’t seem to have been followed up anywhere. This despite the fact that it appears to raise important issues.
The ‘Newsnight Crisis’ at the BBC: A new timeline from the death of Savile to the appointment of Hall.
Tony Hall is an excellent appointment as the new Director-General of the BBC.Before Tony takes up the post in March Nick Pollard will have published his review commissioned by the BBC to consider ‘whether any inappropriate managerial pressure or consideration may have the influenced the decision of the Editor of Newsnight’ after his programme’s investigation into Jimmy Savile.
Fifty years ago a strange sea journey began. Now a new movie is launched it is time to confess my bit part in the real thing.
It is not often that a journalist is asked to ‘expose’ his own boss. On a summer Saturday in July 1969 I was working at a provincial news agency in Exeter when I took a call from the news desk of the Observer newspaper. ‘Have you heard of a man called Rodney Hallworth?’ ‘Yes’. ‘We want you to expose him”. I took down the details of the commission and set to work.
Guy Burgess | Biteback Publishing
Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker, with a contacts book that included everyone from statesmen to socialites, high-ranking government officials to the famous actors and literary figures of the day. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously, and often simultaneously, for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB.
January Releases from Biteback Publishing
Happy New Year from Biteback Publishing! We’ve an array of very exciting new titles for you this January – from polarising politicians and rising revolutionaries to surprising spies and heroes of human rights… Hillary Rising: The Politics, Persona and Policies of a New American Dynasty An unbiased and revelatory insight into an illustrious career and fascinating life, Hillary Rising examines the highly intriguing former First Lady who looks set to be a frontrunner in the upcoming presidential...
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