Suggest a Story for April 5th
We're gearing up for the April 5th show. This is the space to submit your ideas on what we should cover. You can add your ideas in the comments, or you can send us an email. We do read all the emails we get sent.
You don't have to leave a fully formed an idea. Just a suggestion for something we should look at is enough.
We discuss all our ideas at a meeting on Tuesday. After that we'll update this post with our thoughts. Again we'd welcome constructive criticism on what we decide.
UPDATE: Well in the immortal words of Lloyd Grossman we've deliberated cogitated and digested and it's a long list of stories we have to work on. I've put some of them below (others we're keeping close to our chests). If you spot something in the list below you know about, please do get in touch with your thoughts:
Olympic torch The arrival of the Olympic torch will probably be controversial. There's a bit of a media scrum around the issue already. It's very timely for us as the torch arrives in London on Sunday, so can we preview some of the issues on Saturday.
Bad Science - Energy saving light-bulbs may not be all they are cracked up to be. See the comment from Chas here. We'll put the claims to the test.
Exam woes - Clare emails to tell us of problems in the assessment of English GCSE's taken in January.
Heritage wrangles - Alun writes of arguments over historic artefacts in UK museums. Not the Elgin marbles again, but whether British antiquities held in national collections should be returned to the regions from which they came.
Phorm - Lee emails to suggest we look at the targeted ad company which is under continuing scrutiny by privacy compainers. We've covered it before but new elements of the story are emerging, which we are working on.
Last days of distress - Ros emails to tell us about the pain and distress her terminally ill father suffered dying in hospital. What are the issues surrounding death that results from the withdrawal of nutrition? I'll write more on this elsewhere.
Credit Crunch - Variety of different ways of covering this suggested in the meeting from the growth in social lending to crowdsourcing house price pain. Having spoken to another member of the City Unslicker blog team I'm quite interested in whether the media spin isn't a little too positive. I think we're still looking for a clear line here.
Lord of the Blogs. The last bastion of analogue life crumbles as Lord Soley sets up with other peers a blog for those on the red benches. And we note 10 Downing Street has started twittering (they'll be Rick-rolling next!). How do we cover politics2.0
Cybercime Council of Europe are meeting to review international convention on cybercrime. We're watching this to see what comes out of this. At our meeting there was a feeling that one of the issues was a possible law-enforcement gap. We'd be interested in hearing from small businesses that have been victims of cybercrime.
OK so that's the current state of our thinking. Ideas to add, comments, suggestions welcome below.
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