Radiohead are taking over the
BBC this Christmas. For one week, from the 22nd to the 28th of December,
the band will assume control of BBC digital staion
6Music, choosing music, selecting shows, co-presenting programmes and contributing website material. The station is streamed worldwide. Christmas this year may be a little less jolly.
;)
posted by Blue Stone
on Nov 11, 2003 -
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Pax TV. Salam Pax is diversifying; moving into TV. His first report will be shown on the
BBC's Newsnight programme.
Newsnight broadcasts at 10:30pm GMT, and can be watched here by clicking on the "latest programme" link during or after the show.
posted by Blue Stone
on Nov 10, 2003 -
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The BBC introduces it's new grass-roots political website
iCan. After research showed (surprise surprise) that "
many people are very disillusioned and cynical about politicians and local civic institutions" moves were made to set up iCan, to enable people to get information on and engage in local and national political issues. With search tools to find actions on local issues, message boards, and the ability to create a website for your cause, "
iCan aims to make politics accessible to ordinary people confronting a problem."
It's also one of the things Rupert Murdoch and The Guardian would like to squash.
posted by Blue Stone
on Nov 4, 2003 -
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Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian Newspaper Group, magazine group IPC (and others) have formed an unlikely coalition, the
British Internet Providers Association, in order to do one thing:
decimate the BBC Online website, and protect their own online ventures. They demand that "
BBC Online should be scaled back to being a 'news portal' and...should release its internet source code to commercial organisations." Spin-off projects such as iCan, the grassroots political site which the BBC is set to launch in October, would be trashed, and the BBC's use of its website to promote programmes, magazines and services would be restricted. In addition the BBC would face a cost ceiling on
its online budget and be forced to "
provide links to the news services of its competitors."
The Governement's closing date for submissions to the
BBC Online review is November 17th, 2003.
posted by Blue Stone
on Sep 28, 2003 -
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Met by "howls of outrage" and questions about his sanity,
Michael Meacher, the ex-Environment Minister for the UK, known mostly for his opposition to GMOs, and revelations about the less than honest and upright behaviour surrounding the issue, has spent some time thinking, free from the constraints of Ministerial duties.
"
the PNAC blueprint of September 2000 states that the process of transforming the US into "tomorrow's dominant force" is likely to be a long one in the absence of "some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor". The 9/11 attacks allowed the US to press the "go" button for a strategy in accordance with the PNAC agenda which it would otherwise have been politically impossible to implement."
- Commentary - Commentary - Commentary
posted by Blue Stone
on Sep 6, 2003 -
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