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: The BBC is offering discounts to freelancers for courses on how to do TV. The Beeb has been, perhaps, the most generous big-media operation — with its expertise — when it comes to training people how to do what they do. As has been reported previously, they are also looking at starting a journalism school.
Jeff,
Interesting link about the BBC. While I try hard not to be a to much of a cynic, but the BBC is normally a quite biased news-reporting organisation. I conclude this based on reading many internet-based news sites, paper newspapers and magazines, blogs, and books, etc.
There are many examples, the most recent visit by George Galloway’s testimony to the U.S. Senate. From the difference in reporting on BBC compared to other world news sources you’d think two people were testifying. The BBC’s bias is analysed frequently at http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/ and I have to say that this blog’s analysis is spot-on most of the time.
I wonder if they will be teaching biased news reporting in the new journalism school?
…when it comes to training people how to do what they do
It is one of the world’s great tragedies. The only thing worse would be to enshrine their reactionary dogmas in a journalism school.