links for 2008-07-14

“We want a BBC à la Française and we want a Mur­doch à la Française.”

[Polit­ical] blog read­ers are already habitual voters and need no extra encour­age­ment from blogs to go to the polls. Instead, blogs may prod their read­ers to engage in other kinds of polit­ical activity…

“Every­one has an opin­ion now on whether or not we’re deceiv­ing the pub­lic,” Meyer said. But “these shows have always been fun­ded by advert­ising, and if advert­ising is chan­ging, it has to be under­stood that the mech­an­ics of how we deliver advert­ising must

Des­pite rising infla­tion and a slow­ing eco­nomy, India remains one of the world’s bright spots for magazine pub­lish­ing. Magazine advert­ising in India is expec­ted to grow by 20 per­cent to $302 mil­lion in 2008…