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Paxo doth spake the truth

  • 24-08-2007 10:22pm
    #1
    DMC
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    Jeremy Paxman was given the honour tonight of giving the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival..

    Full speech is here (PDF) 45 pages, but its worthy of a full read.

    Edited highlights here (Registration required)

    In a nutshell, he wants TV execs worry less about technology and delivery, but work more on programmes and invest and nurture under paid beginners, who work for nothing and are chewed up and spat out. Also, it mentions about the Blair years and media manipulation; the growth of 24 hour news and what fills it; analysis versus sound bite and how to earn the trust of the public, given the recent scandals.

    Very witty, very sharp and shrewd analysis. In it, he sounds more like the DG of the BBC than the DG himself.


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  • #2
    mike65
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    A comment on a Guardian thread reckoned he was now too big for what Newsnight has become - a rather shrunken lightweight digest. Paxo is old-school and not embarrassed to be. Sadly the beeb in terms of current affairs has become a rather empty vessel in the last 5 or 10 years.

    Mike.


  • #3
    Irish Wolf
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    Well worth the read indeed - but alas, I'm not sure it's going to change too much.. I hadn't heard anything about the Blair speech he mentions - and he rightly pulls it apart, giving the way Campbell pimped Blair out in the media..

    It'll be a real shame if the BBC go ahead with the further cost cutting to Newsnight he alludes to..

    Was it televised? I wonder how long it'll take to hit youtube :p


  • #4
    fly_agaric
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    mike65 wrote:
    A comment on a Guardian thread reckoned he was now too big for what Newsnight has become - a rather shrunken lightweight digest. Paxo is old-school and not embarrassed to be. Sadly the beeb in terms of current affairs has become a rather empty vessel in the last 5 or 10 years.

    Mike.

    Yep.
    Thought he looked positively pained the other evening when he had to lead off newnsnight with the latest tabloid crap about Madeline McCann etc.:rolleyes:


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