Media Training Update 22nd July

 “I would protect the licence fee and my government would not hold the BBC to ransom over appointments and funding.”

A refreshing tone from new Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy:

To maintain the BBC as an institution, it must be accountable to those who fund it – the British people.”

We’ll watch with interest.

Morning all. It’s Monday 22nd July 2024.

And an extra hello to those journalists hoping for a quiet Sunday shift in the newsroom last night.

All of the below (with perhaps the exception of the Olympics) will be lost in the fallout of President Biden’s historic decision not to seek re-election.

(However as I’d already gone to the trouble to compile the list…)

Monday: Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appears before the House Homeland Security Committee

Tuesday: The Hundred (cricket) begins

Keanu Reeves novel The Book of Elsewhere released

Wednesday: Role reversal at PMQs

Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to deliver a controversial address to a joint session of Congress

International Olympic Committee announces 2030 and 2034 hosts

Thursday: Met Office releases State of the UK Climate report

Friday: Opening Ceremony, Paris Olympics

Saturday: V&A’s Taylor Swift exhibition opens

Sunday: Presidential Elections, Venezuela

“Talk to yourself. Talk and record into your phone and listen back. You’ll feel like a banana. But trust me, there is a pressure to interviews, and the muscle memory of having heard yourself say key lines, certain specifics, linking phrases is worth its weight in gold. “

As Part 3 of Year Of The Expert draws to a close, here’s the advice we give in media training sessions that I suspect is ignored above anything else…

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“I love the absurd. And election campaigns are festivals of absurdity.”

 Chris Mason, BBC Political Editor

A couple of documentaries take us behind the scenes of election night for two of the big beasts – the BBC and Sky.

The BBC’s programme is disappointingly dull, so I’d start with Sky if I were you.

Watch SKY

Watch BBC

Rupert Murdoch predicts printed newspapers likely have 15 years left, “with a lot of luck.”

“You get on a train, public transport? You see anyone with a paper? You see no one. Now they’re reading all the facts, on their phones.”

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After 5 minutes on Twitter yesterday evening, I can confirm Tom speaks for us all…

Footnotes:

After last week’s confession about my addiction to microphone-strewn Iranian pressers, I’m grateful to an eagle-eyed reader for emailing this excellent offering…

In election ratings news…

Female audiences are bearing the brunt of the cuts made by the BBC to the World Service, its outgoing director has warned. READ MORE (fw)

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Coffee? Inside Edge is in London and Brighton this week.

On this day: British Prime Minister John Major launched his Citizen’s Charter to improve public services on this day in 1991.

Weather: Highs of 23 degrees in Derby today and 21 in Bangor.

Mutts: The obligatory dog photo. Leo as a pup…

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