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The report into Savile BBC abuse points to disturbing echoes in how the media has covered what happened.
Forthcoming details from Janet Smith report have drawn predictable outrage but there’s also a hidden agenda at play.
Shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Bake Off bring in hundreds of millions and spread British cultural influence to the world.
The boxer’s recent remarks represent everything that is wrong with attitudes towards gender and sexuality in professional sport.
Listing the value of bees, beavers and others on the pages of the world’s financial press helps to show that ecosystems deliver benefits worth staggering amounts of money - yet we scarcely keep track of it.
Former prime ministers Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have in common highly negative views about the media, according to ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) hate the BBC, which may sound harsh but makes sense when you think about it. The BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation – is the ultimate symbol of Union, the cultural…
Big heritage shows facing the tyranny of diehard fans can end up taking no risks. The story of how the 12th Doctor’s screen credits came about is an object lesson in how to turn this around.
The BBC presenter has annoyed some charities, but he’s a well-informed insider with some good points to make.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
The BBC has called for a national debate on what it is for. The public needs to speak and the politicians need to listen.
If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
I’ve been teaching students in Hong Kong about the relationship between politics and the media, and wanted to illustrate the sometimes problematic relationship between media and power. So I showed them…
The Scottish first minister’s speech may have been strong on vision, but there were no signs of innovative thinking on how new Scottish services would be funded at a time of BBC cutbacks.
A fractured broadcasting industry is destroying the business model for the giants. There are winners in the wings though, and the BBC could yet be one of them.
Thick of It satirist’s MacTaggart lecture was a call for unity to secure British public broadcasting.
The government’s recent Green Paper spells our a vision of far smaller BBC. Coincidentally, this is just what Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers have campaigned for over decades.
From both left and right come accusations that the BBC is biased. The truth is that the Beeb has links to all sides of politics – as you would expect.
One of the world’s top weather forecasting services just lost a major contract.
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