TY - JOUR
AU - Hird, Christopher
AB - >- CHRISTOPHER HIRD t the beginning of this year at a private seminar in London for Ajournalists, television producers and lawyers, one of the speakers articulated a view increasingly shared by people in British television. Investigative journalism, he said, was in a bad way in Britain. At the BBC there was a 'numbing bureaucracy'; ITV — Britain's main commercial channel — was now almost entirely ratings driven; and Channel 4 — once regarded as Britain's riskiest and most adventuresome television channel — was now working to a different agenda. The speaker was an extremely experienced television producer who had made a wide range of factual programmes over a number of years. In his view 'the economic and commercial situation in our industry makes it hard to do investigative journalism.' With the term investigative journalism he was defining a wide range of journalism which, in the words of a former editor of the New Statesman, Bruce Page, is involved in 'exposing unwelcome facts, championing unpopular minorities and insisting against all pressure that the common people shall be informed of Downloaded from ioc.sagepub.com at SAGE PUBLICATIONS on December 6, 2012 6 2 INDEX ON CENSORSHIP 2 1995 BRITAIN: TELEVISION what uses 
TI - In camera
JF - Index on Censorship
DO - 10.1080/03064229508535902
DA - 1995-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/in-camera-aXb2jZnPCS
SP - 62
EP - 65
VL - 24
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -