News quiz — BBC style
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Sep 29th, 2007 • Category: Broadcasting, JournalismThe BBC radio newsroom’s home page has some useful things for students including a link to download the news style guide, and news bulletin scripts from the past week. There is also advice on writing for radio.
I thought I kept fairly well up with the news until I clicked on the “Radio news quiz — how closely have you been listening to the news?”
It was hard. Very hard. Then I spotted the clue to why. It is in the questions one of which is:
Which pop group who have not performed since 1981 is to reunited for the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park?
A: ELO
B: Ultravox
C: Pink Floyd
Not my subject, and then I noticed a line at the top of the page: Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 February, 2004, 16:10 GMT. It must have been a bit later than that because Live 8 was in July 2005.
Can it possibly be that no-one has noticed that the same page has been there for more than two years or is there a technical glitch?
Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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