Alastair Campbell plays at News Editor

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Campbell sets news agenda - for real

I wonder if anyone will pick up the phone and bawl him out just as he used to when he was Tony's spin doctor? Do unto others as you would have them do to you. So I suppose he should at least expect it and more likely actually want it to happen.
I notice that he is completely outclassed by the three other people who have been invited onto Five News as guest editors. Ms Dynamite, Dame Kelly Holmes and Howard Marks - none of whom as far as I know undermined the the BBC, causing the resignation of the DG, Greg Dyke and chairman, Gavin Davies. The corporations's two best ever leaders.
It could be a question on Have I Got News For You. "Which is the odd one out of these four guest editors? Answer: Alastair Campbell, the other three waited to be invited as guests while Mr Campbell was notorious for barging his way into TV News studios to make his point clear."
O dear, is there a touch of bitterness in here?

House music

Every so often you discover something that is so dreadful it defies description. I don't mean dreadful on the scale of a natural disaster - just truly embarrassing.
This piece of audio was recently broadcast by the BBC as part of a local news show. It was 'created' by the programme producer to illustrate a housing issue. She clearly believes it is good - I don't think the presenter is convinced though.

House Music - Listen and judge for yourself.

I wonder if Billy Bragg is impressed.

Home from the festival

I arrived home on Friday but I am still adding to my blog of the Digital Storytelling Festival. The workshops gave me less time to write up my notes. I hope you find them useful as they apppear on the site.

Let's go to San Francisco

I am on the west coast of America, helping to run two digital storytelling workshops at the Digital Storytelling Festival. I am keeping a separate blog for the Festival if you are intereted in my daily comments on events there.