Television Standards: Trained? Who cares as long as you're cheap

Don't blame the TV fakery scandals on inexperienced young staff, says Nicola Pearson. They're learning from an industry obsessed with quick-fix, low-quality entertainment
Published: 06 August 2007

Before the finger was pointed at his own channel, the ITV executive chairman (and former chairman of the BBC) Michael Grade, in part blamed the embarrassing revelations of audience deception in BBC programmes on under-trained, inexperienced young people working in the industry.  continue...