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Mark Thompson

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 […]

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The Trust Obsession

April 28, 2008

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.”
Media […]

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Reporting Iraq - 2007

March 19, 2007

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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