Um, sorry? Television channel actually calls someone a terrorist versus the BBC getting a bit too tabloid over an actual confirmed police investigation into Cliff Richard? They don't compare. I'm quite sure if it was one of us who had been named as a terrorist we wouldn't be thinking "oh well, at least it's been corrected". Your name will pop up in Google searches for the rest of your life and people will think "no smoke, no fire". My next thought would be "where's my lawyer?"
As has also been pointed out, Channel 4 has made a number of errors over the past few years.
Mistakes happen, I understand. But I'm not buying the "oh silly me" approach that seems to be allowed here.
Treading carefully here. Would C4 actually drop ITN after 35 years? OFCOM would step in re PSB
They're not going to drop the news, but they could certainly contract it out to a different provider. In fact they've put the contract out to tender before, but before now ITN has always retained it. Same as with the Beeb and the Met Office.
Would Jon Snow and the other on-air personalities stay with C4 if another news provider got the contract?
And why wouldn't C4 do what almost every other TV channel in Europe does -- produce its own news? (With continued access to various newsgathering agencies, of course.) Or would that go against its "publisher broadcaster" concept?
It's a shame this is happening; C4 was always my favorite source of news when I visited the UK.
This was a long time ago, back in 2001 Sky and CBS formed a consortium to bid to produce ITV News.
They got approval from ITC - ultimately ITN was reawarded the contract
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jan/23/bskyb.itv
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I think the Broadcast story has come from a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee meeting held today. I don't have a Broadcast account but I found this reported on a couple of sites including the Press Gazette:
[David] Abraham and Channel 4 chairman Charles Gurassa also faced questions on the news channel’s error in wrongly naming the Westminster Bridge terror attacker during a live broadcast earlier this year.
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It was the fourth time Ofcom found Channel 4 in breach of the broadcasting code in three years. In 2015 it named the victims of the Shoreham air show crash before police had informed their families.
Gurassa said the board had felt that this was “one occurrence too many” and carried out an independent review into “practices and processes” at both ITN and Channel 4 News following the terror attack code breach