Hva kreves av en miljøjournalist i BBC?

[Amatør1]

Se denne historien om hva slags faglige krav som stilles for å bli miljø/klimakorrespondent i BBC. Samme sak i NrK og våre aviser?

Reporting on climate change

Former BBC News Online environment correspondent Alex Kirby shares his insights into reporting on climate change with fellow journalists in this lecture delivered at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland.

[...]

. When I was being interviewed for the job of BBC environment correspondent someone asked me a question which I was completely unable to answer. So I said: "I know so little about the environment that you ought to appoint me as your correspondent, because I will not be able to confuse the listeners." It was true then – and it's true now. I have a very short memory span, and every time I have to write something about climate change I have to look up the latest statements from the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) or the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) or whoever it is.

In the same way, you don't need a science degree – in fact you are probably better off without one. Not long ago I met an Australian journalist who summed up the understanding of science in her newsroom. "If it's green and wriggles, it's biology," she said. "If it stinks, it's chemistry. And if it doesn't work, it's physics. That's all the science we know."

[...]

You can change the world, by finding out what is happening and then turning it into interesting and compelling stories. You are the eyes and ears of society. That's why journalism is the best job in the world. And I wish you all the best of luck in it.

Les hele foredraget til Kirby. Dette står de og sier helt åpent.

[Amatør1]

25-27 October 2010
European Journalism Centre 2010
http://www.youtube.com/v/tSalojGnMbg?version=3&hl=en_US

date: Wed Dec  8 08:25:30 2004
from: Phil Jones <p.jones@uea.ac.uk>
subject: RE: something on new online.
to: "Alex Kirby" <alex.kirby@bbc.co.uk>

   At 17:27 07/12/2004, you wrote:

             Yes, glad you stopped this -- I was sent it too, and decided to
     spike it without more ado as pure stream-of-consciousness rubbish. I can
     well understand your unhappiness at our running the other piece. But we
     are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them any
     coverage at all, especially as you say with the COP in the offing, and
     being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an
     expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them
     say something. I hope though that the weight of our coverage makes it
     clear that we think they are talking through their hats.
     -----Original Message-----

   Prof. Phil Jones
   Climatic Research Unit        Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
   School of Environmental Sciences    Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
   University of East Anglia
   Norwich                          Email    p.jones@uea.ac.uk
   NR4 7TJ
   UK
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Ja, hva er det vi har klimajournalister for, kan noen svare på det etter å ha sett og lest dette?

[ConTrari]

     But we are constantly being savaged by the loonies for not giving them any
     coverage at all, especially as you say with the COP in the offing, and
     being the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC that we are, there is an
     expectation in some quarters that we will every now and then let them
     say something.

Det er sikkert mange av disse epostene som kan vurderes på forskjellige måter, og bortforklares på velkjent vis, men denne tror jeg ikke BBC vil kunne stikke fra. Dette sitatet vil være en spydspiss mot deres ubalanserte dekning av klimaspørsmålet, og jeg tviler på at de våger å overse dette, for det er endel tungre samfunnsaktører i UK som har noen klimaHuhne'r å plukke med BBC...

Ho. Ho. Ho.

[Jostemikk]

Så kan vi jo tenke oss en direkte overføring av dette til norsk MSM, Amatør1. Undres om norske nettredaktører har en agenda i klimasaken?

[Amatør1]

Nei, de er helt objektive (ho ho).

[Bebben]

Nei, de er helt objektive (ho ho).

Før het det objektiv og upartisk.

Nå heter det objektiv og upartisk (ho ho).

Det kan også komme til å hete BBC (ho ho)

BBC kan være British Built Cars (ho ho)

eller Best of British Climatology (ho ho)

men i framtiden kan det jo komme til å hete Ho Ho (BBC) eller bare HH (bbc)

Her Hjemme (HH), kan vi kanskje snakke om Aftenpostens basis for egne meninger (ho ho) eller The Team, avdeling Aftenpoften (ho ho).

Det er mange muligheter (ho ho)

[Jostemikk]

Monty Python har en sang som begynner med ho ho. 18 år grense på youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DzztkoVNf2So

Det er trivelig med gode julesanger nå som det nærmer seg desember.