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(March 2012)

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noggin Founding member
a516 posted:
WW Update posted:
Cando posted:
I have a feeling you don't know what BBC Monitoring actually is. It is nothing to do with BBC News. In fact it was the subject of a Newsnight investigation a few months ago.
It's been analysing news and propaganda since WW2 and selling its findings to Governments and private clients.


I've heard of BBC Monitoring, but my understanding was that their mission is to report what the world's media outlets are saying, not how they are saying it. Since BBC Monitoring is still a part of the BBC, their dismissal of a rival news service can look like a conflict of interest, even when that dismissal is otherwise justified (as it is in this case).


BBC Monitoring's remit:
•focus on open media sources
•ability to provide "the words as spoken" - accurate and impartial translations of what leading figures have said
• analysis of how the media report an event
•understanding of the complex media scene in key countries
•a selection of material, including media reviews, for the BBC News website
•provision of audio and video clips for BBC programmes
•[provision of] broadcast-ready journalists, able to explain our insight to BBC audiences
http://www.bbc.co.uk/monitoring/about-us

until the recent changes which saw Monitoring and World Service come under the licence fee , BBC Monitoring was completely externally funded with income from the Cabinet Office, FCO and commercial bodies around the world.

It view of the context of its historical remit, it certainly should not be seen as tit-for-tat reporting and certainly the article does stay rather neutral without the emotive language you would see in newspapers.


Quite. BBC Monitoring has always had a role in reporting both the content AND the likely accuracy of the content it reports. It did this with Soviet TV in the 70s, and it continues to do it with Russian TV now.
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bilky asko
globaltraffic24 posted:
bilky asko posted:
Kevizz MS posted:
Kudos to whoever keeps convincing governments and the wealthy that funding these utterly irrelevant micro-channels is a good idea, I don't know how they do it when it's so obvious that they are totally useless.


It's a propaganda machine that has sucked quite a few people in. Conspiracy theorists is a lucrative market for various reasons, hence the amount of money raised for The People's Voice (a lot of which being unaccounted for).

globaltraffic24 posted:
He's a former Communist. It's no real surprise he loves having heavily state controlled media 'broadcasting to the world'. However, sadly, some of the points made by the leadership at RT are correct. The BBC is - whether we like this or not - a state controlled entity. It claims to have independence from the Government but it would be fairly ridiculous to suggest that the national public broadcaster, which relies entirely on public taxes (which can be cancelled at any point by the politicians) would not pander, at least some times, to the powers that be. RT's endless attempts to portray Broken Britain, corrupt Europe and chaotic USA can often make it come across like a neurotic conspiracy theorist, but there are some positives. The top story on the Green party being excluded from national debates, despite having several MEPs, control of a council and an MP is a seriously important story. We have major problems in this country. It's unfortunate that RT is the only outlet that seems to be covering some of them.


The Green Party exclusion is not only a rather unimportant story, but it's a point that I've heard brought up time and again on the BBC.


You make a fair point that the BBC has been covering the Green Party issue. However, it's worth remembering that the BBC is one of the broadcasters that SUGGESTED not including the Greens in the debate but wanted UKIP in it. It's much the same point as with BBC Monitoring. We need to stop swallowing this line that different wings of the BBC operating independently of each other. It's nonsense and a very old school argument businesses use to get out of a disagreement with customers.


What's your point? The BBC has put forward the point time and again about the Green Party - clearly there is no bias in reporting if they are covering the issue.
London Lite and Cando gave kudos
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Can we keep discussion to being presentation related please. For politics in general there's always Metropol.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Considering RT UK's studio has the space to have the correspondent in the studio (in this case, this correspondent was in the studio with Bill on Monday), they decided to do a two-way with Laura Burdon-Manley from the CSO studio in the same building.

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cityprod
London Lite posted:
Considering RT UK's studio has the space to have the correspondent in the studio (in this case, this correspondent was in the studio with Bill on Monday), they decided to do a two-way with Laura Burdon-Manley from the CSO studio in the same building.

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Possibly because the reporter was about to report for RT International as well.

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cnnfan1230
In the Now on RT will return in January, during that time the extra 7pm Bulletin will be every weekday on RT UK
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A former member
cnnfan1230 posted:
In the Now on RT will return in January, during that time the extra 7pm Bulletin will be every weekday on RT UK

So that means RT is extending its UK broadcasts?
LL
London Lite Founding member
RT UK normally has a 7pm bulletin on a Friday as In the Now is only scheduled for Mon-Thurs.

I suspect RT UK won't be on-air after Christmas Eve taking a festive break. RT America also normally takes a break until January as well, leaving RT International to fill the schedule.
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A former member
London Lite posted:
RT UK normally has a 7pm bulletin on a Friday as In the Now is only scheduled for Mon-Thurs.

I suspect RT UK won't be on-air after Christmas Eve taking a festive break. RT America also normally takes a break until January as well, leaving RT International to fill the schedule.

But hopefully RT UK will extend its broadcasts after the break. They said they would at some point during the launch.
LL
London Lite Founding member
Going by this tweet from RT UK reporter Eisa Ali, they're off until the new year after tonight.

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Steve in Pudsey
cityprod posted:
London Lite posted:
Considering RT UK's studio has the space to have the correspondent in the studio (in this case, this correspondent was in the studio with Bill on Monday), they decided to do a two-way with Laura Burdon-Manley from the CSO studio in the same building.

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Possibly because the reporter was about to report for RT International as well.

The BBC do that as well if a guest is going to be on the NC and World with a tight turnaround they do it as a DTL
LL
London Lite Founding member
Trails are being played out on RT UK mentioning that the news service returns in January.

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