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- The only black faces at the BBC are in the canteen, says McGovern - Independent Online Edition > Med
  Posted by theangryindian from The Independent
  The award-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern accused the BBC of institutional racism yesterday, saying the only black people working there were in low-pay jobs. Interviewed on BBC Radio Five Live, the creator of the popular crime drama Cracker criticised the corporation, telling the presenter, Simon Mayo: "I work quite a lot at the BBC. You see a lot of black faces in the BBC, but you see them in the canteen." The Liverpool-born writer, whose BBC drama The Street won a Bafta award earlier th
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- Kidnapped reporter shown wearing suicide belt - Focus on Israel/Palestinians
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  A video recording released Monday shows kidnapped British journalist Alan Johnston wearing an apparent explosives belt of the type suicide bombers use and warning it will be detonated if an attempt is made to free him by force.
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- Migrants 'deceived and exploited' -BBC News
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  Companies deny underpayment of workers, but human trafficking experts say otherwise. "Migrant workers are being lured to Britain by deception and are forming a new exploited underclass" - a BBC investigation
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- BBC Trustees agree to let BBC infect Britain with DRM
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  The BBC has turned its back on its promise to deliver a remixable, DRM-free archive of its video materials to the British public, citing lame excuses like, "It will cost a lot to negotiate rights," and "It might make us less effective at selling DVDs to Americans." Instead, it has opted for the "iPlayer," a crippling technology that infects PCs and makes them incapable of saving and using some of the files on their hard-drives.
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- BBC Editors on Use of Cho Video
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  We have not replayed large chunks of the video endlessly on News 24 or BBC World. We are well aware of the concern that the video may lead others to copy or emulate him. Indeed we have interviewed people discussing that dilemma. However, given that the video is already widely available, we had to judge whether withholding the video from BBC audiences was the appropriate thing to do.
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- BBC Provides More Detail on a Report It Didn’t Show
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  UK freedom of the press much different than ours: Under British law, reporting restrictions are routinely imposed when charges are brought in order to avoid affecting the outcome of subsequent trials. Last month, when counterterrorism police raided homes in Birmingham, in central England, the police urged the news media to restrict their reporting of the event. Most legal hearings, however, may be freely reported once the proceedings have started.
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- YouTube to Offer BBC Videos
  Posted by Kathy from PC World
  It's a week of contrasts: BBC signs a deal with Google to distribute British TV to the world via the web. Contrast that with ABC/Disney/Academy Awards, which demanded that Oscar clips be removed from YouTube ... even though the Academy was not planning to re-use them (no DVD) nor was it showing them on its own website.
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Here’s my commentary on the Oscar bit plus a blurb on FAIR USE, a new bill in Congress.

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