Nadine Dorries tells @CommonsDCMS Channel 4’s future should be ‘brought into question,particularly when it is in receipt of taxpayers’ money. It is our responsibility to evaluate whether taxpayers are receiving value for money’. Channel 4 receives no taxpayers’ money.
Stewart Purvis
2,138 posts
Retired TV producer, editor, regulator, board member, professor x 2, media pundit and Premier League club director.
- Imagine a general election campaign where a political party can interview itself on TV every day. It’s coming soon courtesy of Ofcom. My blog at profpurvis.com #Ofcom #GBNews
- ITN doesn’t get enough credit for the fact that on a big news day like today they produce hours of high quality customised programming for three rival UK networks @ITV @Channel4 and @channel5_tv No other producer in the world does the same. @itn
- The cross-examination of Angela van den Bogerd at the Post Office Inquiry should be turned into a trainee video for recruits into corporate life warning them what happens when you start to believe that sticking to corporate ‘messaging’ is more important than the truth.
- When will reporters at government #coronavirus press conferences learn that if you ask multiple questions the most significant/difficult one will be avoided. Just ask the one you want answered.
- An on-air appeal for GB News viewers to vote in this ‘News Presenter’ category for an award for somebody Ofcom says isn’t a News Presenter. @Ofcom
- ‘From what I have seen on @GBNEWS so far I haven’t seen anything that would worry me as a regulator in terms of them achieving due impartiality‘@kevinbakhurst of @Ofcom talking on a Media Society panel. #GBNews
- @BBCkatyaadler @bbclaurak jointly voted Broadcast Journalist of the Year for their #brexit work on tv,radio,online and #brexitcast #londonpressclub
- Today marks the end of 38 years of my connections with @channel4 : Editor of @Channel4News ,CEO of @itn , consultant, @Ofcom regulator and eventually a C4 board member for 7 years. In a world of global streaming giants Channel Four is more important than ever.
- When I was growing up on a council estate in West London my late father took me to @brentfordfc and @chelseafc. Today has been a very special day. Thanks Dad.
- Every time Stephen Bradshaw covers his own back he drops ‘the business’ deeper into trouble. #PostOfficeInquiry
- Nick Robinson to Lee Anderson of Reform UK and GB News ‘there are other channels on which politicians interview each other and interview themselves and this isn’t one of them. So let’s stick to the convention where I ask the questions @BBCr4today
- Enjoyed talking to @arusbridger and @lionelbarber about Nigel Farage, impartiality, #GBNews, @ofcom, and, of course, @BBC .
- The new bottom line on Sharp/Johnson: they both say they hadn’t discuss the then PM’s finances but the Cabinet Secretary,having spoken to both of them, concluded they had.







