What I did on my holidays, part II
Sep. 18th, 2006 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyFirst, an update: the guinea pigs are still going strong.
A question: in the last twenty-four hours, I have seen mobile phone ring tone advertisements for a "silent ring" in three different media. It is allegedly "great for fooling parents and teachers!" I don't have a mobile phone, but I'm aware you can set the things to vibrate. But downloading a silent ring - is that as stupid as it sounds?
What I did on my holidays: argued with bearded Bernie, the belligerent broadcaster. Now that he's had time to lick his wounds from the Great Elder Debate, Bernie has decided to take issue with our coverage of sport. His position on this changes: he varies between thinking there's not enough of it, or thinking that some days there's too much and others there's not enough. It's hard to argue with someone who is not exactly sure what he's arguing about, only that he wants an argument.
Anyway, as I told Bernie several times last week: first, we have a finite amount of time and we can only do what's in the news on a particular day, so if there is a lot of hard news, sport will be pushed out of the way, and vice versa; and second, as long as the content guidelines are followed, it's the presenter of the program who has the final word. The second one is Bernie's real problem, I think - it allows a great deal of latitude. Given the same set of stories, I could put together a completely different program to someone else, and we'd both be right.
Of course, Bernie himself could be a presenter and then he could cover as much or as little sport as he wanted on his day, but he doesn't want to do that, oh no. He doesn't want the responsibility, and also because it wouldn't fix the other days when he's not on. This suggests to me that what Bernie really wants is to be a kind of final-say censor. And that's not going to happen.
He did get his own way about something, though: he has been given permission to make a pilot for a new show (one that doesn't involve sport at all, oddly enough). If that goes ahead he'll be so busy setting it all up he won't have time to do the news. So fingers crossed for Bernie's new show!
A question: in the last twenty-four hours, I have seen mobile phone ring tone advertisements for a "silent ring" in three different media. It is allegedly "great for fooling parents and teachers!" I don't have a mobile phone, but I'm aware you can set the things to vibrate. But downloading a silent ring - is that as stupid as it sounds?
What I did on my holidays: argued with bearded Bernie, the belligerent broadcaster. Now that he's had time to lick his wounds from the Great Elder Debate, Bernie has decided to take issue with our coverage of sport. His position on this changes: he varies between thinking there's not enough of it, or thinking that some days there's too much and others there's not enough. It's hard to argue with someone who is not exactly sure what he's arguing about, only that he wants an argument.
Anyway, as I told Bernie several times last week: first, we have a finite amount of time and we can only do what's in the news on a particular day, so if there is a lot of hard news, sport will be pushed out of the way, and vice versa; and second, as long as the content guidelines are followed, it's the presenter of the program who has the final word. The second one is Bernie's real problem, I think - it allows a great deal of latitude. Given the same set of stories, I could put together a completely different program to someone else, and we'd both be right.
Of course, Bernie himself could be a presenter and then he could cover as much or as little sport as he wanted on his day, but he doesn't want to do that, oh no. He doesn't want the responsibility, and also because it wouldn't fix the other days when he's not on. This suggests to me that what Bernie really wants is to be a kind of final-say censor. And that's not going to happen.
He did get his own way about something, though: he has been given permission to make a pilot for a new show (one that doesn't involve sport at all, oddly enough). If that goes ahead he'll be so busy setting it all up he won't have time to do the news. So fingers crossed for Bernie's new show!
