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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!NYT columnist Frank Rich, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the ‘bloviators’ covering the Obama campaign. But in the course of his musings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. :
Journalists are still Americans — even if […]
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CNN bills itself as the most trusted name in news. Director-General Mark Thompson reckons public trust is the life-blood of the BBC. Politicians and TV presenters wail and tear their clothes in public at the public’s loss of trust in the media. “Woe is us,” wails the collective cry from the journalism profession, “they don’t believe.”
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On the one hand, they’re putting money into aggressive expansion of the newsgathering base (good strategic move), on the other - people are starting to notice their exposure. Take this from Follow The Media:
It was 1100 CET (0500EST) and having heard on the radio of bombings in Algiers FTM switched on CNN International to see […]
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I wrote an anniversary review of Al Jazeera English recently, pointing out the dilemma of running a globally “progressive-minded” news channel on behalf of a despotic regime.
Here is an email exchange with someone at Al Jazeera English in Doha, responding to that piece:
…I am a tad disappointed with your recent Press Gazette article on ‘Al […]
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Here’s a piece I wrote for Press Gazette on Al Jazeera English, one year on.
In the gardens of Versailles you can visit a charming monument to France’s conservative, construction-crazed 18th-century monarchy. It’s the Petit Hameau, an idealised village built at the whim of Marie Antoinette as a way of “connecting” with the great unwashed. Nicely […]
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Want to see the business battle over news in the raw? You have to go to Israel, where they hold these negotiations in public. This is from Haaretz:
Every few months in the past two years, the HOT cable company has announced it will stop broadcasting popular television channels like BBC Prime, Hallmark and National Geographic.
After these […]
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How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics):
Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked for […]
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