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The film on Newsnight last night about Colombia featured some amazing scenes in which, variously, monkeys were breast-fed by a human, shot down from trees, and even cooked and eaten. The sort of thing, one might think, that viewers would be on the phones complaining about. The fact is that no-one called - though one person did ring to object to us featuring Freddie Starr.
Peter Barron is editor of Newsnight
Some blue globules, new music and a dusting of angst helped launch Newsround's new lava lamp look this week. I think it has refreshed the Newsround look, and made it feel more up to date and child friendly.
But how do you measure the success of a re-brand? Ultimately it is the audience who vote with their fingers on the remote or with the mouse.
Children are also straight talking when they give their opinions. So here is some thematically grouped user generated content, carefully balanced to meet Editorial Guidelines on vox pops!
Tom, 12, Trealaw
My fav bite is when the nr gets eaten by the yello blob.
Sam, London
The title sequence fits more with a cheap remake of Pacman!
Karen, Wokingham
i liked the new studio it is cool and elle's hair is nice too!
Katie, 13, London
i dont like the theme tune. i prefer the old one and i dont think Ellie's hair suites her.
Vikki, Carlisle
I love the screen at the back of the studio. that's well cool!
Abby, 12, Leicester
It's ok, but the animation makes me feel sick!
Lucy, 9, Isle of Man
it is ace
Sonia, 11, Bradford
IT'S XXXX [My edit - this is pre-watershed]
AND
Jay, 8, Shoebury
shut up!
OK then.
Ian Prince was editor of until mid-2006
Users of the 大象传媒 News website might have noticed we have changed the way Search works. Now, whichever page you search from, the results page will be from across the entire 大象传媒 website - news, radio, TV, Where I Live etc etc. The top News results will still be clustered - Google-style - at the top of the list.
It's not been a popular move in some quarters (specifically with many journalists who work on the site), but of the hundreds of thousands who use our search every day, there have been barely two dozen complaints. So we think what we've done is probably right - it's based on research which indicated that most searches are not related to the page they are sent from, but could be about any subject. People reading a news story are more likely to search for something non-news related such as EastEnders or GCSE Bitesize than they are another news subject.
It is a work in progress, though - we are looking at restoring some of the "advanced options" we have lost, and will consider giving users an option to choose default results - hardened users of the news site could opt always to see results from news. If you approve or disapprove of the new search, do let me know though. Any feedback is useful.
Steve Herrmann is editor of the
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