10/12/14 NDM Story #21

BBC director lashes out at "lazy" journalism after Christmas schedules criticised

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The BBC's director of television lost his temper on Twitter, ranting about "poor" and "shoddy" journalism after stories were published criticising the number of repeats in the Christmas television schedules.Danny Cohen engaged in a bitter exchange of words with Mark Jefferies, the Daily Mirror's showbusiness editor, after a front page report said 63 per cent of BBC television over the festive period had been seen before. Below are the exchanged tweets.

Cohen's Tweet:
@MirrorTom @mirrorjeffers Extraordinary front page Mark. Mirror should be better than that. Extraordinary talent on the BBC this Christmas.

Jefferies Reply:
@DannyCohen Great talent but extraordinary level of repeats. I love BBC but won't watch on Dec 24 when you show FOUR films that are repeats.

Cohen's Tweet:

@mirrorjeffers Poor show Mark. Standard, lazy, annually repeated newspaper stories about the BBC. Tens of millions will enjoy Xmas on BBC.


This shows how easily the news can try to manipulate large institutions in order to awaken the audience to the truth and give channels such as BBC a bad reputation. This is news that isn't dumbing down audience, as a marxist would argue this is what news is doing, clearly some news is factual and relevant to our lives - as BBC is a reliable and trusted channel with one of the largest viewer ships in the UK & internationally.