Posts tagged with ‘bbc’
Underrated in 2011 - The Hour continued to prove that British television wipes the floor with almost everything that America puts on the air. If you didn’t watch it, it’s an easily digestible 6 hour series and will entangle you as well as any so-called American drama.
Programming Note: The Hour premieres tonight on BBC America at 10 pm
It’s been described as Mad Men meets Broadcast News meets James Bond and should be quite good.
I adore this show. And I’m going on record now as saying Ben Whishaw would be a fantastic Doctor.
While social media players espouse a different agenda than the mainstream media, blogs still heavily rely on the traditional press – and primarily just a few outlets within that – for their information. More than 99% of the stories linked to in blogs came from legacy outlets such as newspapers and broadcast networks. And just four – the BBC, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post accounted for fully 80% of all links.
New Media / Old Media: A New Report from Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism « ResourceShelf (via commonly) (via archivedigger)
Wowza. 80 percent from just those four outlets.
BBC tells news staff to embrace social media
BBC news journalists have been told to use social media as a primary source of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week. He said it was important for…
