The British and Ronald Searle
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 2 March 2010. No comments.
Searle is 90 tomorrow and Channel 4 News ran a tribute interview. Typically, the commentary had to have a little attitudinising. More »
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Top TV shows of the noughties
Posted by RDN under TV and Radio on 10 January 2010. No comments.
Here, roughly in order, are my top TV shows of the noughties. Surely a vintage period? More »
Dominick Dunne: what a story
Posted by RDN under At the movies / Mind and body / TV and Radio on 22 September 2009. No comments.
The late Dominick Dunne, novelist and chronicler of celebrity trials, was by parts Taki, Jennifer’s Diary, The Sunday Times Insight team, Edith Wharton, Thackeray, and J J Hunsecker (of The Sweet Smell of Success). More »
BBC is nearly history now
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 20 September 2009. No comments.
The BBC won’t survive the next five years without massive changes. It’ll get (or keep) a lot less licence fee. It is much weaker than it ever has been. It is likely to be privatised. More »
Jon Snow’s righteous indignation
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 12 May 2009. No comments.
I never quite know whether Jon Snow is genuinely quaking with rage when he cranks up the aggression from time to time. Anyway, his outrage over MP’s allowances is hard to take. More »
Don’t let the state subsidise local papers
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 24 January 2009. No comments.
Alan Rusbridger has suggested that the tax-payer ought to subsidise local newspapers. This is a very bad idea. Even my proposed National Media Trust should not do that. More »
New reports bolster a National Media Trust
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 23 January 2009. No comments.
The latest Ofcom report and the new Reuters Institute book in their different ways bolster the case for a National Media Trust. They don’t know it, of course. More »
Time for a media funding revolution
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 17 January 2009. No comments.
Serious journalism is in dire financial straits. All its business models are under threat. It’s time for the literate, affluent, bossy middle class to club together and fix things. They did it for buildings and landscape. Now they can do it for the national debate. More »
Still pro-Israeli, I’m afraid
Posted by RDN under Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 15 January 2009. No comments.
So far as I can see almost all polite opinion is sure that Israel has behaved very badly in recent weeks in Gaza. I – rather tentatively – beg to differ. More »
Stay home, Jarvis!
Posted by RDN under Handling protest / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 31 December 2008. No comments.
Jarvis Cocker of Pulp seems like a good egg, if a little coddled. He was guest editor of the Today programme on New Year’s Eve and agonised about climate and financial meltdown. Strikingly not-novel, his account was partly based on a trip to the Arctic made by a group of artists. How deliciously lacking in irony it all was. More »
