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Disease mongering

February 12, 2007

BRIAN WILLIAMS If you watch this newscast with any frequency, then you’ve seen it - this ad … for a medication for something called restless leg syndrome. A lot of us had frankly never heard of the condition but we figured people must suffer terribly from it for there to be a medication to treat […]

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Informed democracies, national conversations and YOU

December 18, 2006

Informed democracy meet your new friend the national conversation. NBC News anchor Brian Williams has this to say in Time, à propos ‘YOU’ - the person of the year:
The problem is that there’s a lot of information out there that citizens in an informed democracy need to know in our complicated world…
Does it […]

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Tony Blair

December 6, 2006

Is doing his one-on-one stateside with CBS News’ Katie Couric according to TV Newser. But ex-Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos (a televisual Jamie Rubin) has sneaked in for ABC with an interview for his Sunday show. NBC again demonstrating why they’re number one for news (just kidding), but the truth is Mr Blair won’t play much […]

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News sponsorship

December 5, 2006

Avid blog readers will recall mention of an NBC experiment to allow longer news pieces on their nightly newscast as part of a sponsorship deal with Philips. Viewer responses can be found right here.
My favourite?
In all my years of newscast viewing I have never been so pleased and inspired to tune in as I was last […]

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