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BBC website: what the changes will mean for PR
Posted by Mark Pack at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:42am in Internet
The BBC's website regularly feature in the lists of the ten most popular websites in the UK - and are usually the only ones in the top ten from a British organisation. So the BBC's plans to refocus and shrink its web presence are likely to be widely felt.
The 79 page strategy document ranges over all of the BBC's operations but specially on the web it proposes cutting BBC Online's budget by 25% by 2013. It says:
The Story of the Noughties
Posted by Sacha Deshmukh at Mon, 11/01/2010 - 4:40pm in Mandate news
BBC2's documentary series History of Now: The Story of the Noughties last week featured Mandate's Mark Pack talking about how political communication changed during the last decade. If you missed the show, you can still catch it on the BBC iPlayer.
BBC atrocities at 10.00pm
Posted by Deborah Lewis at Thu, 29/10/2009 - 11:29am in Corporate commentary
Were my eyes deceiving me? Could it possibly be true? Should I run for a dictionary? Had I walked through a looking-glass world? Was I just misunderstanding the story?
No, none of the above was true. The lead story on the BBC 10 o’clock news last night was about a “damming report” of deployment of troops and strategic decisions in Afghanistan.
Yes, “damming” with a double m.
I knew our effort in Afghanistan was short of manpower, equipment, good decisions, sometimes belief in the decision-makers.
BBC journalists are loved by ... Conservative MPs
Posted by Mark Pack at Wed, 09/09/2009 - 11:06am in Political commentary
Across all the mainstream parties you'll find MPs who mutter about the BBC's funding setup and its editorial judgements, but most frequently those comments come from the Conservative Party's ranks.
However, a newly published poll of MPs asking them to list their favourite broadcast journalists shows the BBC dominating the preferences - even of Conservative MPs.
Overall, four of the top five broadcast journalists are from the BBC:
1. Nick Robinson
2. Andrew Marr
3. Jon Snow
4. John Humphrys
5. Jeremy Paxman
BBC Bashing
Posted by Jonathan Lomax at Mon, 03/11/2008 - 6:38pm in
The Mandate blog has kept out of the Ross/Brand affair - we judged that the world was already awash with more than enough hot air about two comedians. Frankly, the sight of hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Congo being bumped from the top of the news agenda by the travails of two multi-millionaire commedians was depressing enough.
But one of the outcomes of the incident has been to open the floodgates to that much-loved British pastime: BBC bashing.
A pinch of salt
Posted by Deborah Lewis at Wed, 15/10/2008 - 5:19am in
At a lecture entitled Faith, Morality and the Media hosted by think tank Theos, the BBC's Mark Thompson asserted that most people read the media "with a pinch of salt".
It astonished me that in this multi-cultural day and age, the DG of the BBC would adopt such an Anglocentric view of the attitudes and stance of his audience.
A pinch of salt - that wonderful English expression - how representative is it of UK society?
How many teenagers - tweenagers even, under the age of 10, planning their trip to the next instalment of High School Mu
