From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Check out Larry Pin­tak’s excel­lent com­ment­ary on AJE.

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More Horrocks

November 30, 2006

Here’s the free link to Peter Hor­rock’s Oxford talk. Don’t thank me, thank the licence fee. Actu­ally I did Hor­rocks a dis-service in my earlier post. What his talk was really about was jus­ti­fy­ing immense licence fee expendit­ure in terms of tele­vi­sion news. It’s ironic he blogged his speech, because one of his obser­va­tions is that “the internet […]

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Sarah Smith

November 30, 2006

The excel­lent Sarah Smith is off to Wash­ing­ton DC as Chan­nel 4 News cor­res­pond­ent. She’ll leave an inter­est­ing presenter vacancy at More4 News.

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Iraq

November 29, 2006

To an event on aca­demic free­dom in Iraq. An Iraqi psy­chi­at­rist gives a heartrend­ing account of the deaths of col­leagues and their fam­il­ies and kids. We have sev­eral Iraqi stu­dents. One of our doc­toral can­did­ates made this film for Britain’s Chan­nel 4. You can see a clip here.

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Accord­ing to Broad­cast, BBC News boss Peter Hor­rocks (seen left, smil­ing — unnerv­ingly) is call­ing for: “rad­ical” over­haul of the tra­di­tional notions of impar­ti­al­ity and believes the cor­por­a­tion should be seek­ing more inter­views with organ­isa­tions such as the Taliban and the BNP. Why not just organ­ize a debate between them in south­ern Afgh­anistan and sup­ply the guns […]

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Stephen Grey’s Ghost Plane

November 29, 2006

For those of you fol­low­ing the rendi­tion story, [Guard­ian] Stephen Grey who has worked so hard to bring the story to inter­na­tional atten­tion, has pos­ted some inter­est­ing new mater­ial today on his site, www.ghostplane.net. He’s pos­ted all avail­able flight logs of the CIA’s alleged fleet of air­craft. Com­piled from avi­ation sources it is a search­able database […]

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