Is It So Bad That the BBC Followed Students into North Korea?
An undercover BBC journalist surreptitiously entered North Korea with group of students attending the London School of Economics. Was he right to do so?
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Dr. Who fans were startled when the Sunday front pages of U.K. newspapers started to leak out Saturday evening. There were surprising headlines announcing Matt Smith, the man currently playing Dr. Who on the wildly popular BBC series, was leaving the show.
An undercover BBC journalist surreptitiously entered North Korea with group of students attending the London School of Economics. Was he right to do so?
The results are in, and "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead" has failed to climb to the number one slot on British charts. It was just 5,700 copies behind Duke Dumont's "Need Me (100 Percent)" when the official tally was taken.
In the handful of days since Margaret Thatcher's death, there's been no indicator of her opponents' satisfaction more troubling than the resurgence of the near-century-old song, "Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead."
Any reader of George Eliot is familiar with Britain's class system, by which Britons sort themselves, either ironically or seriously, into rigidly-defined castes, based on things like education, type of employment, and wealth. In order to sort out the confusion inherent to such a system, the BBC wrote an interactive calculator to determine which class you belong to.
Just in case you were thinking of enjoying the tasty gifts bestowed upon you by the Easter bunny, the BBC would like you to keep in mind that they might ruin your beautiful face.
A report on the sexual abuse allegations made against ex-BBC host Jimmy Savile found that the beloved TV star was accused of sexually abusing more than 450 people during his lifetime, yet was never formally charged with any crimes.
J.K. Rowling released her first novel for adults in September, and it's already slated to be filmed. But The Casual Vacancy won't be turned into a Harry Potter-sized blockbuster — it's going straight to the small screen as a BBC series.
The BBC found itself without a director general after a pair of scandals led to the resignation of George Entwistle barely two months after he started the job. So, without a head, and facing questions about the future of the organization, the BBC hired the head of the Royal Opera House.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The director and the deputy director of news at the BBC have been asked to resign after serious questions have been raised about their handling of a controversial sexual abuse investigation.
BBC director George Entwistle has resigned following a scandal plagued few weeks. The BBC has been taking a huge amount of criticism over their handling of two huge scandals that Entwistle was forced to tackle in the first seven weeks of his job.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Who has more clout in spreading the news: the New York Times, the Guardian or Wired? Such questions have been the stuff of cocktail chatter but now, thanks to the rise of Twitter and big data analytics, we have some hard evidence.
Technically the BBC Three documentary, tentatively titled The Batman Shootings, is set to debut one month and three days after the July 20 massacre in Aurora, but that's still very fast.
While you're busy grumbling about missing the men's 100m final on Sunday because of NBC's tape-delay policies, millions in Britain will be watching live, and the BBC's non-stop Olympics coverage strategy is paying off for them in a huge way.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: China pooh-poohs democracy, the BBC gets in the hacking business and Syria flexes its muscles.
The latest potential candidate is departing BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, reported by The Guardian to be “considering” the job along with other possibilities for his post-Beeb career.
It sounds a little like Piers Morgan wanted to one-up fellow journalists when his dinner conversation 10 years ago turned into an explanation of how to hack someone's voicemail.
Today: Lindsay Lohan gets a big Lifetime role, Gina Carano keeps on acting, and the BBC cancels a show.
The authenticity of the cuteness in this photo of brand new polar bears is up for debate, after it turned out that the scene that produced those little ones was staged in a Dutch zoo.
Each Friday we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying and why it matters.
Many suspected Alessio Rastani's ghoulish market outlook of being a Yes Men prank
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