As you may remember from my recent post that had two opposing sides presenting their opinions on a contentious matter, one incident can be reported from differing angles, leading to different conclusions being drawn.
Well, it looks like hacks are now interpreting a media boss’ apology in different ways. Following on from the ‘Queen – Last Post Hopefully‘, ‘Queen Bites Back Post Correction‘ and ‘Queen Bites Back‘ posts, Stephen Lambert, RDF Media’s chief creative officer apologised. Now the Telegraph has presented this as a standard sort of executive style responsibility taking – he is in charge, so he accepts the blame. However the Guardian has headlined their article with an apparent admission that Mr Lambert PERSONALLY made the doctored the tapes himself.
That said, the Telegraph does not go ‘easy’ on RDF, listing accusations of some pretty scummy behaviour in two of their previous series – Masters & Servants as well as Wife Swap. Where adults sign up to be on TV, and are pushed towards one direction by the series production team, I normally see no problem. However, when children are involved, I can’t help but wonder how RDF staff managed to justify this behaviour to themselves… is wanting to gaffer tape a young persons mouth shut, and parade them in public something you would be comfortable explaining to your family?
Well Mr Lambert has quit his position, I’m just wondering if this is enough to make the news journalists (and bloggers 😉 ) look elsewhere for their next targets, or whether any disciplinary action will be taken?
Jul 25 2007
Queen Tape Gaffe – Taking The Blame
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Jun 04 2007
Smokers Unite
If you remember I recently posted on New Curbs On Smokers In The UK, and how it is not such a one sided argument.
It would appear that hundreds of bars & inns are to symbolically flout the ban this 1 July – see the Telegraph’s article here. The normal arguments have been wheeled out for the debate in the comments section at the bottom of the page. The one that particularly caught my attention was someone called James who posted ‘If I break the law on July 1st, I might go to jail….good food, satTV,
personal trainer and I can SMOKE!’ 🙂
I just hope Kazakhstan does not decide to do anything similar. At least not until I’ve given up…
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Apr 25 2007
First Blue Peter
Now another bastion of Britishness has been discovered to have dodginess occurring with phone in competitions.
Check here for Blue Peter’s eventual admission of guilt.
This time, GMTV, a morning TV program in Britain has been discovered to be using a company with disreputable business practices.
Viewers who called the competition hotline were charged premium rates, even when the winners had been selected – the phone lines stayed open, even though the company had no intention of letting the later callers ever possibly win!
Check the Telegraph’s article for more details.
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