Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Does any other International Broadcaster have a blog discussing editorial dillemmas?

Cause the BBC does. And it is really interesting too. Run by "editors from across BBC News," where they are tasked to "share [their] dilemmas and issues." Topics include Gaza, Obama, the economy, etc. As a small taste, read Simon Wilson's (BBC's Washington Bureau Editor) thoughts on the day after President Obama was inaugurated:

In our coverage, we obviously need to reflect the genuine sense of excitement here without getting carried away ourselves or suspending the BBC's traditional approach of holding those in authority to account. I think we're broadly getting that right.

But it's interesting that in my e-mail inbox on Wednesday morning there was already a set of comments culled from our online audience beginning to criticise us and other news organisation for giving Obama too easy a ride. "Same wolf, different clothing" was the tenor of some of the messages I saw, although it's only fair to reflect that the messages were overwhelmingly favourable.


The comments section is also great. Al-Jazeera English doesn't have such a blog, nor does Alhurra.

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