Channel TV interviewing

[Chevalier Blanc]

Why doesn't the CTV interview politicians from Jersey like they did last night to a Guersney politician.
They gave the Guersney politician a very hard time which is how you normally see politicians being interviewed on TV.
CTV was trying it's hardest to get the politician to answer the questions that needed answering for the public to know just what has happened.
So come on CTV do the same to our politicians or are you to deep in their club?

[Calimachon]

CB! You actually watch Channel tv? 

 

[Chevalier Blanc]

I do because of the weather report sometimes puts my grandaughter's photos on it

[Calimachon]

Well as long as everyone knows that the best place for news on justice and transparency is on the blogs at:

http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/

ricosorda.blogspot.com

AND

voiceforchildren.blogspot.com

 

[moot]

Why doesn't the CTV interview politicians from Jersey like they did last night to a Guersney politician.
They gave the Guersney politician a very hard time which is how you normally see politicians being interviewed on TV.
CTV was trying it's hardest to get the politician to answer the questions that needed answering for the public to know just what has happened.
So come on CTV do the same to our politicians or are you to deep in their club?

I watched it and thought the same . He was trying to do a Paxman and almost succeeded. The local media are so cosy, complacent. mellow, lax and often amateuristic. We would be a lot better off if they did their job properly

[boatyboy]

I have also wondered ( obviously like other pj members ) why the simple model used by other TV and radio stations is not used here ?

On a Thursday evening from 7.00 to 7.30pm have a politics show on CTV, with opposite view politicians in the limelight that would allow true debate fed and fuelled by an interviewer that had carried out some research? Not hard is it?

Well actually if that is a little tough for the BBC or CTV to do all that research just get advanced notice of the hot subject to be broadcast in say a weeks time.

Lets use as an example the electoral reform committee make up of non politicians now changed. Then watch the BBC or CTV internet bloggs for the most objective factual relevant questions seven days before the advertised show and use the publics questions.

Job done and increased viewing and listening figures.

Yep its a lazy slow slow happy life in Jerseys so called MSM. Is it any wonder they are labelled as the Governments spin doctors chosen notice board for cut and paste non-democratic reporting.

Boatyboy.

[SSVOR]

You're forgetting that CTV are not able to simply grab half  an hour of airtime whenever they wish. They're tied in to the network's schedules. If CTV were to broadcast a local politics show at, say,  7.00 pm on a Thursday, they would deprive viewers of that evening's episode of Emmerdale. Without going into the relative values of individual programmes, some people would be highly put out by this - perhaps a great many. They would complain to CTV, ITV, even Ofcom and/or use their Sky boxes to access Emmerdale from another ITV franchise. Result - a lot of fuss and lost CTV viewers.

With a CTV Politics Programme, there's also the question of how it would deal with Guernsey issues. Whatever CTV transmits Guernsey gets. Guernsey folk would expect equal treatment for their States and issues, so you'd end up with a programme whose very existence, depriving them of their beloved soap-opera, would piss-off a lot of people and which, if it balanced Jersey and Guernsey, would be irrelevant to 50% of its viewers for half its time.

[Chevalier Blanc]

So what is wrong with radio then?
They used to have it on Sundays but the establishment party did not like it because people got the other side of things which they were not meant to hear.

[Chevalier Blanc]

So is it just me or do i see a change in the BBC radio and CTV also JEP with them all having a go at the states which is something that they normally do not do because they go along with the establishment party but now it seems they just may have taken a look into the future and taken account of the feeling within the Island these days and are now thinking about themselves with what is going on. The JEP taking the medal for asking the question on the goldenhandshake etc when it was not them in the first place also radio and tv.
Are times a changing and Blowing in the wind?

[imacrappaud]

So is it just me or do i see a change in the BBC radio and CTV also JEP with them all having a go at the states which is something that they normally do not do because they go along with the establishment party but now it seems they just may have taken a look into the future and taken account of the feeling within the Island these days and are now thinking about themselves with what is going on. The JEP taking the medal for asking the question on the goldenhandshake etc when it was not them in the first place also radio and tv.
Are times a changing and Blowing in the wind?

I dont know the answer to that but it is odd that old Jimmy P is claiming the rights to the Ogley whistle blowing, was he not still in the states when Ogley departed or was that after JP left the states? I expect to see a Ben Shenton article sooner or later, possibly along the same lines or if not "whistle blowing" something else. Maybe they are planning their strategies for the next elections and their delusions of grandeur. Yes I am cynical but so what its my opinion!!

[shortport]

Yes the JEP is really giving themselves a big pat on the back about the golden handshake,yet they still can't give us an answer about why Ogley left.In my opinion the state of journalism in Jersey is totally appalling.If they did any proper investigative work and brought it to our attention i'm sure the island wouldn't be in half the mess its in because it would be in the public domain and it wouldn't be left to bloggers to try and put the pieces together and leave the rest of us feeling very cynical towards anything the establishment does.Even on stories that are not political their style of 'nonreporting' is ridiculous.Take the story of the missing Portugese woman surviving for 7 weeks on water in a deserted house in St.Helier.Well they just left it at that.Bizarre.There has got to be more of a story than that to it.And so the same goes for any question asked to a states member who doesn't want to give an answer citing human rights or some other bullshit,they just let it go.No digging of their own.They have got a long way to go to get any respect back from the majority of islanders.

[danrok]

Yes the JEP is really giving themselves a big pat on the back about the golden handshake,yet they still can't give us an answer about why Ogley left.

In the article, they say that Ogley volunteered the information on how much he was given.  So, not exactly a hard-core investigation, and, like you say, they always leave many questions unanswered.

[imacrappaud]

One reason for the get out clause given by Frank was that BO had been offered a job in the UK at a higher rate. Instead of offering the get out clause why didnt he just offer a better wage packet similar to the better offer from the UK. It would be interesting to know what the UK offer was and why Frank deemed it necessary that the way to offer better was a get out clause instead of a pay rise. It must be said though, Bill must be one canny individual to get Frank to sign up for it or did Frank just not give a monkeys about whose money, the tax payer, was being put up for grabs. Wonder if there was a clause in their little shindig that stated a minimum period before Bill could claim his bonus or was it available till the day before he retired from his job or his contract was due to be renegotiated.

[shortport]

I don't think any other job offer has anything to do with it (even if there was another job offer) just more spin from Walker.
He must of been paid to go.Nobody gets a contract saying i'll give you half a million if you leave.Its all very fishy and still no answers are given.Maybe Ogley himself would like to give an interview now that he is safely back in the UK.

[boatyboy]

CTV and the JEP both as useful as a trap door in a canoe. The job description for Mr Ogley appeared on the internet and what an eye opener it was / is.

How he was brought in to make Jersey's public administration more efficient more streamlined giving better value to the public. Why haven't the MSM published it, just to give us all a good laugh.

Other questions,

Which Council exactly offered more money and how much ? so we can check ?

Who is in charge of handing these outdated and expensive contracts ?

Who gave Mr Ogley permission to give his friend Mike Pollard £300,000 when a report by Verita confirms that the Hospital management ( under the Chief Executive Mr Mike Pollard ) was a shambles. Payment for failure.

Time taken to think up questions three minutes, no doubt other people and professional reporters could think up plenty more. Bring it on.

BB