talking heads

Time spent today at the BBC talking about their approach to the upcoming Public Service Broadcasting Review, then to Ofcom to bang my head against a brick wall for a bit. They told us how everything will be run in the consumers best interest once all the public assets have been sold. Nearly thirty years on from Thatcher and her privatisation scams, this Government will auction off one of the last few pieces of silverware, the public spectrum - which we currently own - and sell it to the highest bidder who will then sell it back to us in bite sized and considerably inflated chunks. Result.


Finally I attended the George Viner memorial fund event this evening at the NUJ's head office. The charity funds bursaries and grants for aspiring Journalists from an ethnic background. The guest speaker was Samira Ahmed from Channel Four news.