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Wednesday, 18 April, 2007

  • Newsnight
  • 18 Apr 07, 06:44 PM

bombblog.jpgIraq blasts; Sellafield body parts inquiry; US shootings latest; and cricket.

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Brilliant Jeremy on Newsnight (17/10) - particularly with Prof Finbar Cotter & Prof John Harris on the body parts enquiry and with Samir Sumidaie on the latest atrocities in Baghdad. However the best of the night was on the England cricket team. I howled with laughter when Jeremy announced that the new sponsors of the team were Adidas, but pointed out that a firm of rubbish contractors would have been more appropriate!Ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

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  • At 01:38 PM on 19 Apr 2007,
  • csharp wrote:

more trouble at world bank according to wed lords hansard.

>>Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty’s Government:

Whether they will seek the removal of the managing director of the World Bank following reported attempts to delete references to contraception from the bank’s Madagascar country assistance programme.<<


apparently the concern is that the removal of contraception [in an aids region of the world] was down to a suspicion that religious reasons are used to cut programmes at the world bank .

UN, IMF,World bank. Are they showing their age? What could replace them?

Need a story? Lords Hansard is usually a good place to see Ambridge at play.

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  • At 04:24 PM on 21 Apr 2007,
  • Brassa wrote:

I am worrying about how well we our served by our news programmes.

When someone blows up 100 civilians in Iraq – do the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ get anyone behind the atrocity to face the cameras and give an explanation of how they reconcile such actions with their religion / principles etc?

Gees we'd love too but.. insurgents / Islamic terrorists / hardline religious leaders don't grant access or give interviews to journalists. So, how does the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ensure it provides balanced coverage of events in Iraq?

If war zone journalists fail to extract frequent interviews with such protagonists (due to a reluctance to expose themselves to kidnapping and death) then they provide an unbalanced account of events.

Equally - how does the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ avoid too much emphasis on Western agencies / and governments given their willingness to oblige the media (granting interviews, taking questions, owning up to stuff).

What techniques have the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ used to compensate for this unequal representation and what measure is made of their success?

Is it true that only some types of agencies, perhaps Al-Jazeera, are able to penetrate both sides of the story - and meet this type of challenge?

If creating / measuring the balance of coverage is as problematic as it seems to be, as an honest broker shouldn't the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ sometimes advise audiences to refer to other channels?

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