If you wanted a sign of the growing importance of the UK news media in reporting US politics (a phenomenon supported by Matt Drudge, the now global online market in English language news, and the largely apolitical US press), here it is.
Media Matters, a Democratic-leaning MSM rebuttal service, turns its powerful fisking attention to this Times report. Continue reading
Here is an edited version of Rupert Murdoch’s Boyer lecture — The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees. One word summary? Brands.
But here it is:
Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet: banks, retailers, phone companies and so on. But these sectors also see the internet as an extraordinary opportunity. But among our journalistic friends are some misguided cynics who are too busy writing their own obituary to be excited by the opportunity. Continue reading
The Financial Times has a trenchant critique of BBC Worldwide and its impact on the public service broadcasting debate.
But who exactly is the person ‘familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking’ that they quote? Or the leading London banker? Don’t be tempted by the obvious jigsaw identification.
A person familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking says: “The success of Worldwide has arguably threatened the BBC’s future more than anything else in recent times, by simultaneously providing an image – possibly illusory, possibly not – of great wealth and a yardstick, also possibly illusory, of supposedly anti-competitive behaviour.” Continue reading
Paul Krugman didn’t win the Nobel prize for economics for this. But maybe he should have. It’s a meditation on British food and why it was once so dreadful. (And there’s surely a lesson in there about education and media consumption.) Continue reading