Comments on: Documentaries and Ofcom http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/02/05/documentaries-and-ofcom/ Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Helen http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2010/02/05/documentaries-and-ofcom/comment-page-1/#comment-17446 Helen Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:54:54 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=997#comment-17446 <p>Presumably their argument is that it's harder to be clear what is fact in a documentary, than when you are reporting something that has or hasn't just happened.</p> <p>Which is true if you take the primary school view of 'the news tells us what has happened' not their perspective of it, and if you believe the 'present belief lies 50% between two polar opposite views' tabloid take on science and controversy. Which grown ups shouldn't.</p> <p>All of which leaves me to believe Offcom (or at least the legislative documents they work to) have no balls.</p> Presumably their argument is that it’s harder to be clear what is fact in a documentary, than when you are reporting something that has or hasn’t just happened.

Which is true if you take the primary school view of ‘the news tells us what has happened’ not their perspective of it, and if you believe the ‘present belief lies 50% between two polar opposite views’ tabloid take on science and controversy. Which grown ups shouldn’t.

All of which leaves me to believe Offcom (or at least the legislative documents they work to) have no balls.

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