Few words on the two-day (8-9 November 2006) BCI conference poignantly entitled "Who are you?" - Exploring Identity & Relationships in Irish Broadcast Media.
Location - great, Conrad Hotel near StStephen's Green in Dublin. Classy...
Wednesday:
Conference dinner - one can only say Yumm :-) Good company of my supervisor added to the good feeling :-)
Opening speech by Lord David Puttnam - what can I say... I would like his autograph on my thesis and am thinking of becoming his groupie. I hope they will put the speech on the website so I can add some four hundred footnotes or so...
Thursday:
Despite having to run four times between Conrad and Trinity (to give my EU law tutorials), this was a good day too. Minister explained the Broadcasting Bill which the audience had a chance to question in the Q&A session at the end of the day. I especially liked the heated discussion between the TV3 lawyer and Cathal Goan, Director General of RTE on the definition of public service broadcasting. TV3 man claimed the definition was circular to which Mr Goan replied that the only thing circular is TV3's thinking, that TV3 are the only ones having problem with PSB and that they haven't read the BBC charter in the long time and... then he left. Juicy!
I must say I was with the TV3 man on that one despite beeing the PSB fan. On the other hand, I didn't agree with his claim that Lord Puttnam's speech on pluralism and diversity was "too academic" and "directed towards the wrong audience". His one sentence: "We - commercial TVs - are paying for this conference so we should hear what we want" is in a nutshell what commercial media think of regulators: Give us what we want; Ignore the audience.
On the final, somewhat personal, note - there was one thing Lord Puttnam said I wish to hereby strongly protest to: RYANAIR IS NOT A BLIP!
:-)
Location - great, Conrad Hotel near StStephen's Green in Dublin. Classy...
Wednesday:
Conference dinner - one can only say Yumm :-) Good company of my supervisor added to the good feeling :-)
Opening speech by Lord David Puttnam - what can I say... I would like his autograph on my thesis and am thinking of becoming his groupie. I hope they will put the speech on the website so I can add some four hundred footnotes or so...
Thursday:
Despite having to run four times between Conrad and Trinity (to give my EU law tutorials), this was a good day too. Minister explained the Broadcasting Bill which the audience had a chance to question in the Q&A session at the end of the day. I especially liked the heated discussion between the TV3 lawyer and Cathal Goan, Director General of RTE on the definition of public service broadcasting. TV3 man claimed the definition was circular to which Mr Goan replied that the only thing circular is TV3's thinking, that TV3 are the only ones having problem with PSB and that they haven't read the BBC charter in the long time and... then he left. Juicy!
I must say I was with the TV3 man on that one despite beeing the PSB fan. On the other hand, I didn't agree with his claim that Lord Puttnam's speech on pluralism and diversity was "too academic" and "directed towards the wrong audience". His one sentence: "We - commercial TVs - are paying for this conference so we should hear what we want" is in a nutshell what commercial media think of regulators: Give us what we want; Ignore the audience.
On the final, somewhat personal, note - there was one thing Lord Puttnam said I wish to hereby strongly protest to: RYANAIR IS NOT A BLIP!
:-)
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