The Cuts - Spending Review Coverage

£20 million in the context of TV is a a drop in the ocean, you wouldn't get many hours of quality drama for that

The 'peaceful protesters' tried to use Robinson's live piece to camera as a way of geting a wider audience for their message. It was irritating for the viewer, more than anything, and was as childish as the people who wave in the background whenever they pass a TV camera.

I'm not surprised by his action afterwards. I'm sure I'd have done the same.

No, you said "whatever" in response to me pointing out that your argument about Terrestrial TV was invalid - see http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forums/post683298#post683298

But this debate is going nowhere so I guess we should agree to disagree.

Is there a factor that having that placard in view compromises the BBC's impartiality, and they would need to cover the opposing view for balance?

This was nothing out of the ordinary, as a regular outside Westminster, Robinson would be used to this kind of thing. His reaction was completely disproportionate.

Earlier in the year, after the election, Burley was getting verbal insults on air over a megaphone. It wasn't on that level of annoyance.

Both the protester and the journalist have legimitate reason to be there, but imagine for one moment the protester pushed over the BBC's camera and broke it. I'm certain we'd be looking at much more serious consequences.

I'm glad he did it actually, the criticised act wasn't on air , The poster was clearly distracting from his report.

These people have as far as I'm concerned every right to demonstrate outside of Parliament, or other places where cameras are used in reporting, in a way which doesn't disrupt public access or lawful business. The demonstrator was.

Call his response petulance if you like, but I was pleasantly surprised by Robinson's actions.

Interesting Spending Review scene in tonight's EastEnders... a radio report about the pension age rising to 66 provoking a discussion between two characters. Sounded like it was filmed along with everything else, but the radio report was recorded and dubbed on since the announcement

They are La Chaîne Info (owned by TF1), i>Télé (owned by Canal Plus) and BFM TV (owned by a smaller media company). Also, France's international news channel, France 24, is a public-private partnership.

Thanks for that. As you say, France 24 isn't independent and isn't aimed at a domestic audience.

The fact remains that they're all Francophone stations and therefore fill a niche that doesn't exist here in the UK

Yeah, well, people like Nick Robinson!

I'm not sure if praying will really help..

I didn't catch the programme, but a friend drew my attention to this car crash of an interview with the Scottish Secretary, Michael Moore.