Bias?

Someone who might just know, Peter Sissons, has a go at the endemic bias of the BBC. This is quite an interesting development.

Professional News Gathering - Not

The ever vigilant Guido has uncovered this gem. The author obviously thinks that the BBC could be more professional in how it deals with local authorities.

We think that the story illustrates how the Beeb is driven by its need to fit events to its story. In this case the story is "Evil Tory led coalition imposes cruel cuts".

The Leicester Mercury is a paper which needs to be accurate or its readers would soon stop buying it and then the paper would close. The BBC is ..... well, you see my point.

TV goes Online

According to this article in the Daily Telegraph which is well worth a look.

The article offers a rather negative view of Google TV. However we expect Google to keep developing the product until it comes good. At the moment Google TV still seems the most promising contender in the race.

Also notable is that Erik Huggers is moving on from the BBC. Loyal readers of this blog (if there are any) will remember Erik for his commendably honest answer about whether a TV Licence was required to watch iPlayer. Thats a negative, by the way, for those who just joined.

YouView does not work!

Well not at the moment anyway, according to this story. Of course it is likely that the problems will be ironed out before the system is sold to the public. The real issue as the article rightly points out is whether it will get to market before it is squeezed out by the competing Smart TV systems.

Just in case you have not been keeping up with the plot YouView is the new name for Project Canvas.

Internet TV

See this link for the story.

There is a rather notable ommision from the survey! Although Google TV does merit a passing mention right at the end of the article.

The windows embedded platform sounds interesting.

Happy New Year

Lets kick off the New Year with a reminder of what this blog is for. On this blog we favour media plurality and that is why we urge people not to pay the licence fee. This post from Guido makes the argument rather well although curiously he does not take his argument to its logical conclusion and call for the abolition of the licence fee.