Good news for media journalists – clearer Ofcom reports
Campbell Cowie, director of policy development for Ofcom, admitted today that even he doesn’t always understand Ofcom policy documents and joked that a limit to the number of acronyms allowed should be introduced.
Speaking at the Westminster Media Forum event on the UK government’s ‘Digital Britain’ plans:
“We need to think about the way we write our reports. We need to understand that we are writing for a much broader audience when we are consulting and writing about policy.
“When we bring people from the value chain together the kind of conversations you have are very different. I think we need to be very conscious of that when we are developing policy.”
Almost there Campbell – if you hadn’t used the phrase ‘value chain’ we’d have given you extra marks. Good news for those journalists lumbered with reading report after Ofcom policy report.
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January 14th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
… “when we are consultION and writing about policy”.
Are you being ironic or did Cowie spell it that way?
January 14th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Casting stones, without sin, etc.
Neither. A simple typo now corrected.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Oh I commit typos all the time; no stones thrown – this one’s just amusing, no matter who wrote it
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