Broadcasting impartiality rules. Ofcom rules say a politician cannot be a newsreader, a new centre News Reporter unless there is editorial justification. It found that two episodes ofJacob Rees Moggs episodes of Jacob Rees Moggs programme, episodes ofJacob Rees Moggs programme, two episodes of friday morning with esther and phil and one episode of saturday morning with esther and philfailed to episode of saturday morning with esther and phil failed to comply with the broadcasting code. In response to this decision, gb news said it is deeply concerned by the ruling and that it will raise it directly with the regulator in the strongest possible terms. The media group called it a chilling development of free speech as it said ofcom acknowledge that the programme was deemed impartial but viewers might think otherwise. Gb news said this will continue to feature german politicians hosting Programmesjust Feature german politicians hosting programmes just as other ofcom regulated services have
and watch on iplayer. a number of viewers, though, have told us they don t believe a news channel is the right place for a phone in show. here are two of them. we now have the option of watching either a radio phone in programme which is simultaneously broadcast on radio five if we wanted to listen to it or switching to a competitor s news coverage. none of which hold a candle to the bbc s normal offering. so between nine and 11 am, every weekday morning is now a news desert. we ve also lost a number of excellent news presenters, the likes of anita mcveigh and martine croxall, who brought empathy and interest to their broadcasts. and whilst i know that the bbc in these straitened times have to save money, surely there are other ways in which this can be done without losing the fundamental quality of bbc news coverage. if i wanted to listen to a radio phone in or even participate, then i go to the radio and television news and bbc news is a particular medium which is important
of political times past, so too was the speech at a global power conference by his former boss, borisjohnson, part of which was shown live on the news channel on thursday. nothing and no one will stop me reciting the song. of the oompa loompas about augustus gloop, which you all remember. # augustus gloop. # the great big greedy nincompoop. that made me weep with laughter as a child. and frankly, i d be very surprised if anybody at cis in vauxhall behaved towards their secretaries as bond behaved towards moneypenny. but that doesn t mean we should be banned from reading fleming s novels. not everyone welcomed the reappearance of the former prime minister, with janet edwards asking. we mentioned a couple of weeks ago complaints about hugh edwards and reeta chakrabarti travelling from london to edinburgh to present news bulletins on the day of nicola sturgeon s resignation, and that this practice of flying news anchors out on location was a regular source of irritation. so regu