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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / August 2005BBC; Too cheap to pay "citizen" photogs?
Heck, the Toronto Star at least gave me $150 for an image awhile back. If it benefits their TV broadcasts, why not pay? After all, their reporters can't be everywhere all the time? -Rich I lived in the UK for 4 years. The BBC to me is an absolute gem of an organisation, and I paid my licence fee gladly, knowing the bbc radio alone was worth every single penny. Look at what they provide absolutely free of charge, are without doubt the most impartial news organisation in the world, with no commercial axe to grind. They are now giving away the rights to a lot of their own content, they are now providing pod casts for radio programming. The bbc radio service provides most of their programs for after a week after they have been broadcast. The web service is without peer. They provide world services all over the globe and for all those people outside the UK, they do this for nothing! The funny thing is that the people that provide the pictures do it in the same spirit. It's a kind of open source movement thing. It's people sharing their talents for free, in support of a news organisation that provides it's news and resources to you for free. The contributors benefit by having their work exhibited to a global audience. Just as you don't HAVE to buy the canon kit lens....you also don't HAVE to contribute photos to the BBC. If the photo is of commercial value, I'm sure you'll sell it elseware. > Heck, the Toronto Star at least gave me $150 for an image awhile > back. If it benefits their TV broadcasts, why not pay? After all, > their reporters can't be everywhere all the time? > -Rich >> Heck, the Toronto Star at least gave me $150 for an image awhile >> back. If it benefits their TV broadcasts, why not pay? After all, [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >contribute photos to the BBC. If the photo is of commercial value, I'm sure >you'll sell it elseware. Excellent comments, Steve; as a Brit and an enthusiastic BBC radio listener I'm glad to see it is appreciated. In all my travels around the world I have not found anything to match it (especially not, I regret to say, in the USA). The answer, as you rightly say, is if you don't like the philosophy, play elsewhere. David  SignatureDavid Littlewood > as a Brit and an enthusiastic BBC radio > listener I'm glad to see it is appreciated. In all my travels around the > world I have not found anything to match it (especially not, I regret to > say, in the USA). Did you listen to NPR? Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird >> as a Brit and an enthusiastic BBC radio >> listener I'm glad to see it is appreciated. In all my travels around the >> world I have not found anything to match it (especially not, I regret to >> say, in the USA). > >Did you listen to NPR? Yes; it's probably the best of a fairly awful bunch. There's also a classical music station in Houston I listen to when I'm there (can't remember the station letters) which is pleasant enough. The rest is (to me) simply unbearable. David SignatureDavid Littlewood >>> as a Brit and an enthusiastic BBC radio >>> listener I'm glad to see it is appreciated. In all my travels around the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > David NPR is awful? Let's check out WNYC's programming and see if it change your mind. http://wnyc.org/shows/ They also broadcast the BBC World Service, etc. And they have their own shows, in which I like, "The Leonard Lopate Show." Among NPR network programs, I like "A Prairie Home Companion." I think the NPR news programs are okay. They might not have the resources to send reporters to Iraq, but they have a reporter in China, like Rob Gifford, that turns in interesting interviews. Oop, it turns out he's a Brit. :) > They might not have the resources to send reporters > to Iraq, but they have a reporter in China, like Rob Gifford, that turns > in interesting interviews. Oop, it turns out he's a Brit. :) They did have reporters in Iraq during the invasion, and I'm pretty sure they maintain correspondents there now. Of course, a lot of newspapers and TV networks are pulling out staff due to the insurgency, I wouldn't be surprised if NPR did the same - just a little disappointed. Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > >Did you listen to NPR? > > Yes; it's probably the best of a fairly awful bunch. How can you call NPR part of an "awful bunch" when it provides news on par with the BBC... and often BROADCASTS the BBC? Signaturehttp://www.pbase.com/bcbaird > > as a Brit and an enthusiastic BBC radio > > listener I'm glad to see it is appreciated. In all my travels around the > > world I have not found anything to match it (especially not, I regret to > > say, in the USA). Have you been to Australia? The ABC does a pretty good job here; AM, FM and TV. -- Jeff R. (That's the *AUSTRALIAN* Broadcasting Company, BTW) >> > as a Brit and an enthusiastic BBC radio >> > listener I'm glad to see it is appreciated. In all my travels around the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >The ABC does a pretty good job here; AM, FM and TV. No, afraid I haven't. Hope to do so one day. David SignatureDavid Littlewood > I lived in the UK for 4 years. The BBC to me is an absolute gem of an > organisation, and I paid my licence fee gladly, knowing the bbc radio [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > HAVE to contribute photos to the BBC. If the photo is of commercial > value, I'm sure you'll sell it elseware. Excellent comments, Steve. I'd not thought of the BBC as open source news, but that's exactly what they're becoming, but with the editorial oversight that is missing from many new news sources. SignatureAlbert Nurick | Nurick + Associates - Web Design albert@nurick.com | eCommerce - Content Management www.nurick.com | Web Applications - Hosting >I lived in the UK for 4 years. The BBC to me is an absolute gem of an >organisation, and I paid my licence fee gladly, knowing the bbc radio alone >was worth every single penny. May be you need to talk to my boss. When I mentioned in a conversation that I watched the BBC World news on PBS, his response was "Why? Do you hate America?" > Heck, the Toronto Star at least gave me $150 for an image awhile > back. If it benefits their TV broadcasts, why not pay? After all, > their reporters can't be everywhere all the time? > -Rich The BBC represents what the CBC should be and has little hope of ever achieving. I wish the feds would transform the CBC into the Canadian version of US PBS, for that matter. Cheers, Alan. Signature-- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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