Monday, August 14, 2017

Happy anniversary

Is it just me, or is the BBC awash with anniversaries ?

I had a boss once who said that "anniversary journalism" was a cop-out - either a story was worth re-visiting because something had changed, or it wasn't. I think he was right. It's also a rather lazy way of commissioning tv and radio programmes - especially as there's apparently a limitless number of significant years.

Radio 1Xtra is marking its 15th birthday; we've had BBC1's Diana, to mark 20 years since her death; BBC Sport Online has special features for 25 years of the Premier League; Radio 2 is celebrating 50 years; we've got the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act; we've just had 60 years of Test Match Special; 70 years since partition in India; the Proms marked composer John Williams at 85; 100 years since Passchendaele.

(This item marks 9th anniversary of my first blog posting)

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