BBC News at One, Monday 18th March 2013

A few outtakes from the BBC News at One at March 18: There will be press regulation after the phone hacking scandal: a last minute deal by the party leaders has been confirmed. 2 billion pounds are invested in the air and space industries of the UK. This is done to secure the future of more than a hundred thousand jobs in those industries. Sports news: McManaman faces a ban for 3 matches because of his horrible tackle in the match against Newcastle United.

My opinion

In one of my other blogs I wrote that I was totally against press regulation. However, now I see where this comes from (the phone hacking scandal), I see the point of it. I didn’t knew it had to do with this, but now I know, I think there actually should be rules to prevent this in the future.

I think investing in industries to secure the future of jobs is always a good case. Employment is one of the pillars of a nation. If the unemployment rate becomes too high, the UK will be further into crisis.

After seeing the tackle, I think this ban is right. It was really reckless and dangerous. Maybe three matches is a bit too little, but well, it’s something.   

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i10-d3X_rXM

Have I Got News For You, May 17th, 2013

In this episode, several international news facts were discussed in a humorous way. An example: “Funerals are the most inappropriate places to use your mobile phone. In one incident, a mourner in South Wales was called as the coffin was lowered into the ground. The ringtone was ‘If you are happy and you know it clap your hands’”. Another funny thing about English news was the item ‘finish the sentence’,  in which some words were made black, so you couldn’t see how the sentence ended. For example ‘Yodelling interrupts ...’ which has to be ‘Yodelling interrupts BBC Radio 4’. Another (finished) sentence was: ‘Rival Star Wars and Doctor Who fans separated by police’.

My opinion           

I think this is a very nice way to look at the news, because although it’s funny, you get to know a lot about the daily news this way. There were many international items, but I tried to focus on the items about England itself. I have to say that there were not many items about England, which I found rather strange, because it is a English show. The things that were said about England, were mostly not very serious things, such as the things mentioned above: calling during funeral, yodelling interrupts radio, etc. So that’s what I missed a bit in this show: the English news items.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1JcDN0PIU

The Graham Norton Show, June

This time, Micky Flanagan, Hayden Panettiere and Dan Stevens were guests in the Graham Norton Show. The music came from Robin Thicke and Pharell with their hit single ‘Blurred Lines’. Micky Flanagan was there, because he is going on a big tour with his comedy show. Hayden was invited, because she is active in a new series (started in 2012) called ‘Nashville’. Dan Stevens was present, because he starred in the series ‘Downton Abbey’. In this show, they talked about their activities, in a humorous way of course.

My opinion

There were not many things in this show where I have strong opinions about. I don’t watch series, so that didn’t really interested me. There is one thing I have an opinion about, and that was the music. I have to say that I really like the song ‘blurred lines’, but I regret the thing that it is so very sex related. I really got the idea that they thought of a quick way to become rich, and the solution to that question was, of course, a clip with naked girl. Sex sells, we all know that, but when it comes to music, I would like the performance more based on the music itself, in stead of the ‘backing vocal’ girls, who probably can’t even sing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYYnlgOTSk

 

The Graham Norton Show, May

This episode, the guests were Freddie Flintoff, David Mitchell and Jennifer Lopez. First they talked about the career of Jennifer, who did acting before, but is now busy with her career in the music industry. She said she’s going to play in Hyde Park soon. After that they talked a lot about cricket, a very popular sport in England. Then they talked about a book that David Mitchell wrote.

In the end, David did some voice-overs to some very strange commercials, such as a ‘telescope golfstick’ or something.

My opinion

I found the show kind of funny, but because I didn’t know all the persons mentioned in the show I sometimes found it a bit boring. The thing I found interesting was about cricket, because it is a sport I don’t know much about. However, after watching this, I still don’t know anything about it. The most funny thing of the show were the voice-overs from David, in the end, because the commercials were actually very strange.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLJqDQ4Q18

The last TV network news from Television Centre in West London

A few outtakes from the BBC News: There is still no deal with Cameron and the Labour party about how to regulate the press. After three months of negotiating they can’t agree with each other. An example of the regulation would be that if you make a mistake on the front page, the correction should be on the front page as well. The big question is whether this is against the press freedom or not.

The BBC moves out of their building, the ‘Television Centre’. It has been her home for 40 years. The BBC moves to ‘broadcasting house’, where the news bulletins are broadcasted from now on.

My opinion

The freedom of press is very important to be a democratic country. If you want to regulate the press, you should do it very carefully, because often press regulation goes hand in hand with a autocratic regime. Of course I know that this won’t be the case in the UK, but I still think that you have to keep the freedom of press as free as it can be.

It’s always hard to move on if you’ve been somewhere for a long time. Although, most of the time it is a good step forward. I expect so with the moving of BBC to broadcasting house. Television Centre is iconic, but it is good to look at the new possibilities of this time, and that needs a new studio in this case. So I think it’s a good thing for the BBC to move from Television Centre to Broadcasting House.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayaPoHHVY-c