Britain

This is some of what’s caught my attention in the past hours:

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I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn.

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If you want an illustration of the brilliance and fragility of the blogosphere, take a look at Ofcomwatch. It’s a blog about the world of UK communications regulation which, let’s face it, is about as effervescent as a day-old glass of Alkaseltzer, and the bulk of its posts are the heroic work of Russ Taylor.

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London Business School: David Currie, outgoing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital regulator) chairman.

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Arrange a meeting at a summit. Prior to the meeting, ensure government officials drop reassuring hints about the need to improve relations:
Russia now poses its biggest threat to Britain since the Cold War, according to security sources. MI5 fears that Britain has been swamped with spies since the breakdown of relations over the tit-for-tat accusations over […]

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I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don’t want to see things going bang anymore. What troubles me is that - what troubles me most personally, is when I see children hurt - and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and […]

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