David Quinn published this entry on Monday 22 February, 2010 at 10:31 pm. It's been filed in the bbc + journalism + politics category . {Comment}
The BBC appears to have spent much of today debunking its own story about the National Bullying Helpline allegedly taking calls from members of Downing Street staff. I listened in amusement at lunchtime as a reporter on Five Live quoted several issues about this charity that were raised last night on Adam Bienkov’s Tory Troll [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 09 February, 2010 at 10:19 pm. It's been filed in the celebrities + television + web category . {2 Comments}
It all started on Sunday morning, when I began one of my usual rants on Twitter about the terribleness of deathly Tim Lovejoy vehicle Something for the Weekend, which culminated in this tweet:
Unpredictably, this comment led to direct contact from Nicky Campbell and, since I’m not one to pass up the chance of wringing a [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 01 February, 2010 at 10:13 pm. It's been filed in the football + journalism + sport category . {1 Comment}
It’s transfer deadline day today. So, what better time to note that football journalism is the one area of the profession where it remains possible to make things up completely off the top of your head and still remain in a job even after the 300th time your byline appears on something that’s complete and [...]