11-04-2011, 10:08
Guardian article, its basicly justification by an ex employee (aparently babe channels are porn)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgri...tion-ofcom
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgri...tion-ofcom
(11-04-2011 10:08 )mikeboob Wrote: [ -> ]Guardian article, its basicly justification by an ex employee (aparently babe channels are porn)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgri...tion-ofcom
(11-04-2011 10:08 )mikeboob Wrote: [ -> ]Guardian article, its basicly justification by an ex employee (aparently babe channels are porn)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgri...tion-ofcom
Quote:First term of Appointment: 3 years (1 May 2003 to 30 June 2006). Reappointed Term: 3 years (1 July 2006 to 30 June 2009). Term extended to 30 June 2010.
Kath Worrall was appointed to the Content Board in May 2003.
She was the chair of the Ofcom Fairness Committee. She is a member (by rotation) of the Broadcasting Review Committee and the Broadcasting Sanctions Committee.
Kath Worrall works as a freelance consultant following a distinguished career in broadcasting with Border Television, where she was Director of Broadcasting, and the BBC. She is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.
Quote:Kath Worrall is Chair of the Fairness Committee of the Office of Communications – charged by law with making sure that what is broadcast is fair, decent and does not invade privacy. These are some of the most contentious issues in the modern media. Judging the public mood and the line to take is not an easy job – she currently has 40,000 complaints about the last series of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ on her desk.Note that 4 years ago she was concentrating on "fairness decency and privacy". Quite what Decency and BB had to do with Fairness is beyond me - yes, she sat on both committees but to name one and talk about the work of the other is just woolly thinking.
Quote:KATH WORRALL BECOMES NEW BOARD MEMBER OF THE BROADCASTING STANDARDS COMMISSIONfrom Government News
Kath Worrall today became a new Board Member of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, announced today. The appointment will be from 1 January 2002 until 30 June 2003.
Biographical details
Kath Worrall is a broadcasting consultant with successful senior management experience in both the commercial and public service sectors, who has worked overseas advising on broadcasting legislation and regulation. She has held a number of senior broadcasting posts in Britain, which include the Director of Broadcasting at Border Television, the Secretary, BBC Scotland, and Managing Editor, BBC Cumbria.
Mrs Worrall was a keynote speaker at the British Council seminar - Broadcast journalism; news and current affairs-setting the standards in a competitive world - which was held in February last year in Cardiff for journalists from the developing world.
She has not undertaken any significant political activity in the last five years and holds no other public appointments.
Notes for Editors
1. The Broadcasting Standards Commission is the statutory body for both standards and fairness in broadcasting. The Commission is accountable to Parliament and the Government and broadcasters finance it.
Its three main tasks are:
- to produce codes of practice relating to standards and fairness; - to consider and adjudicate on complaints - to monitor, research and report on standards and fairness on broadcasting.
2. The remuneration for a member of the Commission is #16,310 per annum for a nominal two days per week.
Quote:Kath Worrall
Is a broadcasting consultant with successful senior management experience in both the commercial and public service sectors, who has worked overseas advising on broadcasting legislation and regulation. She has held a number of senior broadcasting posts in Britain, which include the Director of Broadcasting at Border Television, the Secretary, BBC Scotland, and Managing Editor, BBC Cumbria.
Quote:BBC sources claimed Ofcom had asked 'odd' questions in its call for evidence, and then would not allow the corporation to submit any additional material which would have supported its argument. They also raised concerns that Ofcom's Kath Worrall oversaw both the initial complaint and the appeals process as a member of the media regulator's content board as well as chair of its fairness committee. 'They got the same person to be judge and jury. It took a record time for Ofcom to rule on and there was an unprecedented level of protest to Ofcom, right up until the last minute,' the source said. Broadcast says it understands that has Ofcom restructured its appeals process following the complaints but maintained that it would stand by its decisions on Pedigree Dogs Exposed
(11-04-2011 22:06 )Big Stu Wrote: [ -> ]Typical of the sort of patronising tosser they employ at ofcom. There is no right of reply with these people who just impose their morals on the rest of us. They are typical of a class who think they know best.
(16-04-2011 05:13 )blackjaques Wrote: [ -> ]Her views on encryption are "interesting". Pity her ex-colleagues don't share her views.
(18-04-2011 19:33 )Charlemagne Wrote: [ -> ]All 44k members should make a complaint, any complaint, to Ofcom.
Find a TV show and send off a complaint.... Blue Peter, Eastenders about anything you want.
It will keep Ofcom so busy reply that they won't have time knitpick the Babeshows.