From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Oh dear…

May 29, 2007

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Insider cartoons

May 28, 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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May 26, 2007

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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