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Simon Pitt |
Sunday 11th
November
2012
George Entwistle resigns as the BBC Director General surrounded by bluster, noise and allegations. Do the events surrounding his departure herald an era of spin and cautiousness at the top? And is success down to ability or chance, politics and the press?
Simon Pitt |
Wednesday 23rd
May
2012
The BBC released their latest expense report today. It's like a dream come true for tabloid journalists. A sort of quarterly present, where they get to put up their feet and print numbers and angry faces in the newspaper for a day.
Simon Pitt |
Sunday 19th
September
2010
Simon considers exactly what the news was and what it has become
Simon Pitt |
Tuesday 22nd
June
2010
They say you can't trust anything you read in the news these days. But why? And how do they get away with it? Simon, a nine foot tall Australian currently living in Tibet, examines lies in the news.
Simon Pitt |
Thursday 17th
June
2010
Simon examines another modern cliche - this time with a look at some of the tricks of the trade of the TV and Film critic.
Robert Weedon |
Wednesday 16th
June
2010
When a news story breaks these days, Twitter seems to be journalists' first port of call. Robert dissects why.
Robert Weedon |
Tuesday 18th
May
2010
After 5 months of intense speculation, hype, and more speculation, the 2010 General Election came and went. But what did the media make of it?
Simon Pitt |
Friday 19th
March
2010
In the news today: a look at how journalists use numbers and why the news has destroyed all of the numbers except for two.
Simon Pitt |
Saturday 13th
March
2010
Simon discusses how the news has gone from a dry suited man reading out the events, to being a daily fix that we have to get. Just what is it about the news that makes it so appealing to broadcasters?
Simon Pitt |
Tuesday 23rd
February
2010
Simon highlights the rise of a modern cliche; the facebook eye: the best friend of the lazy technology journalist.
Simon Pitt |
Thursday 4th
February
2010
A brief overview of everything that happened in the media in January 2010, the month in which the set of Coronation Street was demolished, some fat people were banned from BeautifulPeople.com and scientists prove we can't have any more than 150 friends.
Simon Pitt |
Friday 1st
January
2010
A brief overview of everything that happened in the media in Decemer 2009. The month in which the newspapers gave up publishing anything except lists of what happened in the 'noughties', the Tories demanded music videos should have age rating, and a Japanese man married a computer game character.
Simon Pitt |
Tuesday 1st
December
2009
A brief overview of everything that happened in the media in November 2009. The month in which the Gruffalo became the nation's favourite children's book, Judy Dench went to the dentist in period costume and the town of Darlington appointed someone as village Tweeter.
Simon Pitt |
Saturday 21st
November
2009
An examination of the way news and journalists work. Where do news stories come from and where do they go when they're not on the front page anymore? An Image Dissectors exclusive scoop!
Simon Pitt |
Thursday 19th
November
2009
A brief overview of everything that happened in the media in October 2009. The month in which a racist appeared on Question Time, TS Eliot became the nation's favourite poet and laugh-a-minute swear-fest The Thick Of It returned to BBC Two.
Simon Pitt |
Thursday 12th
November
2009
With the BBC releasing salary information for their top 107 decision makers, Simon takes the opportunity to examine who some of the key figures are, and how they got there.
Simon Pitt |
Wednesday 4th
November
2009
ITV's sale of Friends Reunited is to be investigated by the competition committee. In the mean time, ITV is left holding the costly, and very rubbish, baby that is FriendsReunited.co.uk.
Simon Pitt |
Tuesday 18th
August
2009
Brightsolid, a subsidary to DC Thomson, publisher of the Beano, has bought Friends Reunited from ITV.
Robert Weedon |
Friday 7th
August
2009
News Corporation to charge for online newspaper access.
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