Caroline Flint reveals her intolerance!

Here we always try to catch the national and local news to keep up with the developing issues and the spin that some journalists appear to want to put on stories. I believe that a broadcast journalist should be a ‘conduit’ to a story and not the story itself. The classic example of the opposite

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BBC meets Birmingham Bosses

There has been a meeting between the BBC Director General and city council chiefs. I understand the city were determined to ensure a ‘significant’ continuing presence for the BBC in Birmingham. Probably seriously too late – about 10 years!

Birmingham asks the burning media questions

I was delighted to be able to attend the meeting called by Gisela Stuart last week on the future for media business in the city given the BBC’s flight from Birmingham. Councillor Martin Mullaney, sharing the top table, made some interesting opening points including the fact that they were having a meeting with the Director General about the issue.

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BBC not pulling out of Birmingham

I thought this might be an interesting quote on BBC Birmingham – for the purposes of this post I won’t say who made it or when but a guess would be a good idea! “The BBC is not pulling out of England’s second city. Now that we have a much clearer picture of production requirements in Birmingham, we are in a position to give output guarantees…”

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