Andrew Barker
@dogsbarker.bsky.social
Now retired I am an ex-Risk Manager and BBC TV producer. I am a mathematician by training and have interests in Broadcasting history/policy and video. Profile pic taken in 2016.
Trump will try to steal the midterms. From today's Canadian newspaper, Globe and Mail
Here is the editorial from the US edition of "The Week", wondering why Americans are not protesting against Trump, whilst Europeans detest him.
New podcast ahoy! Our timeline's at Nov 1923: the BBC's 1st relay station Sheffield 6FL, whose history has never been told. Andrew Barker has found aplenty - thanks to him, BBC Radio Sheffield + Sheffield City Archives for rare audio from its co-founder. Enjoy! bbcentury.podbean.com/e/125-the-bb...
#125 The BBC's First Relay Station: Sheffield 6FL and Fred Lloyd | The British Broadcasting Century with Paul Kerensa
We're back in our moment-by-moment timeline of British broadcasting's early days, and it's just after the BBC's first birthday... 16 November 1923: Sheffield 6FL becomes the BBC's first relay station,...
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The British Broadcasting Century episode 124 has landed - a tribute to and tour of 1932's Broadcasting House - with 'Palace of the Ether' author Dr Elizabeth Darling. Links below, enjoy, and do share if you like it! Next time: Sheffield 6FL, the first relay station in Nov 1923 pod.fo/e/445a4d
BBC lawyers playing Trump at his own game and he's too lazy to have read the rules.
Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰@poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records and private schedules from around the time of the Jan 6 2021 insurrection as part of the US president's defamation lawsuit against the corporation. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
I love the cover of this week's US edition of The Week.
🟦 CLEAN FEED | The BBC's Made Of Here campaign docks in Northern Ireland with a Titanic-sized drone display. This trail aired earlier this evening.
It was wise for Anthropic to refuse to let the US military have full reign over its AI model given the article below.
Two cartoons republished in the US edition of "The Week".
"Joyful" **** - Mail on Sunday Very glad our new radio drama about the first radio drama has landed well with critics. I hope it lands well with listeners-in/broadcatchers (I prefer the 1920s lingo).
Here they try to back it up a little bit, citing a Guardian report. One problem, though: that Guardian article is from 2015. Ten years ago. Since then, the BBC has introduced widespread VPN blocking (as anyone who’s tried to watch iPlayer using one knows).
Little bonus from the filing. The second paragraph here takes a general claim about VPN use in Florida and imagines everyone’s using it to watch the BBC. But the first paragraph is missing something: notice it has absolutely no supporting reference. They’re just claiming it, sans evidence.
Here’s the full original story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social from several weeks ago, where we pointed out the issues in Prescott’s dossier: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
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Now, why didn’t Trump’s lawyers just include the sentence in the quote, like Michael Prescott did? It’s because Prescott omitted a chunk of quote too. Trump’s lawyers have managed to cut it out of their filing, too, but they’ve done it more cleverly than him. Here’s the missing bit:
If you’d like to read the actual 33-page defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed “for damages not less than $5,000,000,000”, then here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in TRUMP v. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BBC STUDIOS DISTRIBUTION LIMITED, BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS LIMITED, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION. Filing fees $ 405.00 receipt number AFLSDC-19044737, filed by DONALD J. TRUMP. (A...
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The BBC has its issues but I really don’t feel that the Telegraph basically spending all week yelling about a rather thin series of ‘scandals‘ and then pissing itself with delight because they got Trump to say something about it is a great look.
George Mann@sgfmann.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe Daily Telegraph: Trump goes to war on the BBC #TomorrowsPapersToday
Here is the editorial from the US edition of "The Week". Its theme is "pity" - pity for those who are suffering under Trump's regime.
The editor of the US edition of "The Week" does not hold back on his opinions.
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This article from the UK edition of The Week is probably somewhat 'under the radar' in the US. But looks and see who Elon Musk is supporting to destroy Romanian democracy.
The editorial in the UK edition of The Week notes that Hollywood and the media are going quiet on Trump's misdeeds.
The front page of the UK edition of "The Week" shows Trump in the guise of Neville Chamberlain.
