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From the monthly archives:
May 2007
From Danny Sanchez at Journalistopia.
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Fran Unsworth, head of newsgathering at the BBC, takes issue with Bret Stephens. She calls his piece on Alan Johnston for the Wall Street Journal “scurrilous.” I disagree. I think snide is a better word. And it’s shorter. First, let me put the piece in context. Stephens is an anglophobe and his attack on the BBC has to […]
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In 1996, the Judge Richard T. Matsch took the decision to move America’s biggest domestic terrorist trial from Oklahoma to Colorado. Newspaper and television stories about Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had been so pervasive inside Oklahoma that “they have been demonized,” the judge wrote. “There is so great a prejudice against these two defendants in […]
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By Charlotte for seven random facts about myself, I respectfully refer her to my previous five facts entry, and supply these two: One and only child TV acting role with Eric Morecambe. Phởtographed, aged 3, with Rolf Harris.
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The Budd report on the impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of business is here. Released on the Friday before a public holiday it clears the Beeb of systematic bias (well, most big organizations have trouble doing anything systematically), but has some interesting sidebars regarding campaigning on behalf of consumers and the importance of cosying up to […]
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