[Swprograms] Interesting BBCWS program: "Making News"

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Taken from the weekly promotional BBC mailing:

"Focusing on a day in the life of a news network, the first of two
programmes compares three international rolling TV networks' responses
to the same day's events.

On 30 October 2007, Saudi King Abdullah visited London and live
footage of the event was simulcast by BBC World, Al Jazeera and CNN.
Allan Little finds out how news editors at the three stations decided
how to present the story hears about the editorial dilemmas which
faced them.

He also hears from critics of news broadcasting who point out that
events such as this are staged purely for the cameras and say that the
news media themselves become, arguably, complicit in a kind of
official PR campaign."

This is the Monday Documentary... global air times here
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/programme_times/m_o.shtml);
potentially audible shortwave air times include Mondays 1406 and 2106
(targeting Africa).  Not aired during the four daily hours when the
Americas stream is on shortwave.

Richard

-- 
Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

International broadcasting / shortwave blog:
http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com
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