{"id":145,"date":"2008-10-30T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T12:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/?p=145"},"modified":"2008-10-30T14:24:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:24:27","slug":"twittering-the-shadow-culture-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/30\/twittering-the-shadow-culture-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Twittering the Shadow Culture Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a quick note to log the speech<\/a> on public service broadcasting made by shadow culture minister Jeremy Hunt<\/a> that I attended yesterday morning at the LSE.<\/p>\n

I twittered throughout<\/a>. I like twittering live events but mostly like to provide a comic commentary (\u201cget a load of that syrup\u201d kind of thing) because Twiitter obviously doesn\u2019t allow for much depth of commentary\u2014especially not when you\u2019re tapping away on a mobile phone.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m not 100% convinced of the value of live twittering in news or information terms\u2014although it\u2019s probably true to say that I \u2018broke\u2019 Hunt\u2019s endorsement of the licence fee and of Ofcom\u2019s view of Channels 4\u2019s role in PSB before any other media outlet, all of whom waited until the end of the speech to file.<\/p>\n

The main feature of Hunt\u2019s speech was its utter blandness. Hunt is hardly a firebrand\u2014in fact he seems to be rather uncomfortable pronouncing in the obligatory censorious tones on Brand\/Ross\u2014but I was quietly hoping for something a bit tougher than \u201cThe licence fee is here to stay because it works”.<\/p>\n

Hunt essentially endorsed the PSB status quo: the licence fee is safe (although in the past Hunt has supported top slicing), C4\u2019s plight was acknowledged and privatisation was ruled out, Ofcom\u2019s view of the PSB landscape was supported. The only distinctive element was an endorsement of local and super-local media with a suggestion that the BBC might be required to support it.<\/p>\n

I asked Hunt if he\u2019d force the BBC to share assets with other broadcasters and media firms if his party were elected and he made a nod to Mark Thompson\u2019s commitment to \u2018partnerships\u2019 but said it was time to do something concrete: to \u2018talk turkey\u2019 in fact.<\/p>\n

Here are my tweets<\/a> from the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick note to log the speech on public service broadcasting made by shadow culture minister Jeremy Hunt that I attended yesterday morning at the LSE. I twittered throughout. I like twittering live events but mostly like to provide a comic commentary (\u201cget a load of that syrup\u201d kind of thing) because Twiitter obviously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,8,106,112,107,108,50,105,109,111,110],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbc","tag-commonplatform","tag-conservative","tag-culture","tag-jeremy-hunt","tag-lse","tag-media","tag-ofcom","tag-polis","tag-psb","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonplatform.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}