Peter Stewart sur Twitter : "#BBC local radio was right all along with its target listeners it seems: #DaveandSue... Lustig's Letter: Paul Dacre and the BBC - some facts. Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail, has replied to the paper's critics over its labelling of Ed Miliband's father as "the man who hated Britain.
" And he's complained about the "full-scale war" that he says has been waged by the BBC and the left against the Mail. He described the Mail as a paper that "constantly dares to stand up to the liberal-left consensus that dominates so many areas of British life and instead represents the views of the ordinary people who are our readers and who don't have a voice in today's political landscape and are too often ignored by today's ruling elite.
" So here are some facts, taken from a report published by the media regulator Ofcom last month, which might help provide some context. On a chart calculated by asking people which news sources they use and how frequently they use them, TV came top with 47 per cent of references, followed by the internet (21 per cent), radio (18 per cent) and newspapers (13 per cent).
BBC journalist killed in Somalia 'under pressure' to prove herself, says mother. The mother of a BBC journalist murdered on assignment in Somalia said today her daughter felt "under pressure" to prove she was committed to her job.
Angela Peyton, speaking at the inquest into her daughter Kate's death, said she would always regret not persuading her against travelling to the region, which is rated by security experts as "extreme". Kate Peyton, 39, had only just arrived in the country's lawless capital, Mogadishu, in February 2005 when she was killed. She was not wearing a flak jacket when she was shot in the back outside a hotel. Peyton's mother told an inquest she had been visiting her daughter when she was told about the Somalia trip. "She explained to me that she was under pressure.
"She explained to me that there had been a conversation about her contract. Her mother said she would always regret not talking Peyton out of going on the trip. "I have regretted ever since not stopping her from going. The BBC and Linking. UPDATE: The BBC have started a debate on the issue on their Editors’ Blog Ben Goldacre is experiencing understandable frustration with the BBC’s policy on linking to science papers: Jane Ashley of the website’s health team, says that when they write an article based on scientific research: “It is our policy to link to the journal rather than the article itself.
This is because sometimes links to articles don’t work or change, and sometimes the journals need people to register or pay.” In email correspondence defending their policy, Richard Warry, Assistant editor, Specialist journalism, adds: “Many papers are available on the web via subscription only, while others give only an Abstract summary. This just doesn’t stand up. If it helps, here’s a broadcast analogy: imagine producing a TV package which captions a source as ‘Someone from the Bank of England’. Linking – and deep linking in particular – are basic elements of online journalism. Like this: Like Loading... Science & Nature - Space. The one to watch. In the interest of fairness, it should be pointed out that other catch-up services are available - the BBC's iPlayer vies for the attention of tardy viewers with 4oD, Virgin on Demand and (try not to snigger) itv.com - but it is by some distance the most successful.
In the seven weeks after its launch on Christmas Day last year, it was used to watch 17m programmes, and was chiefly responsible for a 29% increase in traffic to bbc.co.uk. In April, the iPlayer had, according to the BBC, 21m requests for downloaded and streamed programmes. But what has really underlined the iPlayer's status as a truly transformative piece of technology is the recent record traffic for The Apprentice - largely as a result of a scheduling clash with the Champions League final that cut 1.7m from the BBC1 programme's ratings. About 200,000 users watched 6,000 hours of streamed content the following day, according to the broadband provider Plus Net. So what does it all mean for television? BBC Bus in Liverpool. BBC Sound Index.