On 17 March 2010 12:15, Brendan Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> You guys have seen this site, haven't you? > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/ > > You can search by transcript (even in welsh), it has all the local > parliament channels, it archives everything that they recorded AFAIK, plus > some old stuff they've added. > > Hopefully this goes at least part of the way towards meeting your needs... > admittedly only for official parliament business, not for press conferences, > doorstep interviews etc. > Yes, just the interesting bits. > > Brendan. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Brian Butterworth > *Sent:* 16 March 2010 13:19 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [backstage] Fwd: [IP] C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web > > I think it's a particular shame that we are about to have an election, and > it would be just great if the whole campaign's News Channel output was > retained on the iPlayer system, along with the TV debates and Question time. > > > IMHO It would be a great service to the public if every single utterance > that was made could be found and replayed, and possibly transferred to > YouTube. > > Add to that a little bit of an index on the subtitles output of the News > Channel and Bingo - real accountability. > > As I presume that the coverage will include lots of news conferences and PR > events too, it would be great to hold these candidates to what they say > during the election to the process afterwards, in particular if there is no > party with a seat majority. > > > On 16 March 2010 12:57, Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:49, Brian Butterworth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > I understand that the BBC trash the output from the News channel after >> 28 days. Shame, really. >> >> Really? Christ. >> >> On a similar note, the whole PARLBUL/BBC Parliament structure really >> needs an overhaul. Wasn't terribly forward-thinking, that one :( >> >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >> please visit >> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >> Unofficial list archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002 > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
