Both the Beeb and Al Jazeera take stick over election coverage

i didnt manage to stay awake for the US coverage on Tuesday night,good intentions giving way to heavy eyelids.

I get the impression that the BBC has come in for a great deal of critisism so much so that people were actually switching to ITV

Dave Lee has written his thoughts on the coverage which are well worth a read.

Amongst his critique are accusations that David Dimbleby looked tired from the start,that the coverage was routine,that it was slow in responding to breaking news and its use of two rather unimportant bloggers


Meanwhile it is not just the BBC that comes under attack.The English version of Al Jazeera was described as

a bit like watching a local college TV station attempt to compete with the big boys. No matter how hard they try, it’s just not the real thing.

by Lawrence Pinkac on Arab Media and society.

According to Lawrence it was

Another missed opportunity for the two-year old channel that has yet to live up to its potential to produce true borderless journalism

Back though to Dimbleby who according to the Indy's Pandora

yesterday faced unflattering catcalls to be pensioned off, over his handling of the BBC's coverage of the US election from Washington.
The veteran broadcaster twice clashed with his guests, once with Simon Schama and with George Bush's walrus-faced former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton.

Dimblebey not taken with Glasgow

One of the fall outs of the BBC's announcement that it is moving some of its production out of the capital could be David Dimblebey.

This morning's Telegraph reports that the Question Time presenter is unhappy that the programme may be going to Glasgow.

Why he should not want to go there is uncertain but perhaps he should get the latest Lonely Planet which says the city

has confounded the sceptics who disparage the city for its hard-drinking, violent reputation by claiming it is one of the world's top 10 cities for visitors - on a par with Chicago, Lisbon and Mexico City. Glasgow, which is hosting the Commonwealth games in 2014, now boasts alumni such as the actor James McAvoy, pan-fried scallops caught off the nearby coast, and "defining experiences" such as cruising down the Clyde by powerboat and "adding your voice to the Hampden roar" at the city's international football stadium.