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James Painter has just pro­duced a study called Counter-Hegemonic News [down­load pdf] — look­ing at Qatar’s Al Jaz­eera Eng­lish and Venezuela’s Tele­sur. I have to say, in the case of AJE, I think both the per­son­nel and the tra­di­tions they draw on are simply those of con­ven­tional foreign news.

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In 2007, Mark Thompson Peter Hor­rocks appar­ently walked into a meet­ing of top BBC tal­ent and declared — not untruth­fully — “There is no mar­ket for news­read­ers.” Unfor­tu­nately “even a dead cat bounces” (as fin­ance types say) and the mar­ket promptly leapt back into action and Nata­sha Kap­l­in­sky and Dermot Murnaghan both left the BBC for Sky. […]

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Foxing up Sky News

November 24, 2007

Here is what Rupert Mur­doch told the House of Lords Com­mu­nic­a­tions com­mit­tee regard­ing Sky News. Per­son­ally (not that I would neces­sar­ily want to) I think you could Fox up Sky, but what you lack in the UK is the Talk Radio base from which to recruit your tal­ent. But don’t listen to me yack­ing on — here […]

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Andrew Marr should think before he cri­ti­cises Sky News on the “never wrong for long” front. Here is what he told the Lords: “I do think (the BBC is) dif­fer­ent and we have to stay dif­fer­ent,” he told the House of Lords com­mu­nic­a­tion com­mit­tee. “This is most acute in the age of 24-hour news because […]

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Sky News Business

November 1, 2007

Fox News has one, now Sky News Aus­tralia is going to have one — yes, busi­ness chan­nels are the new must-have access­ory for a Murdoch-owned 24-hour news chan­nel. When will Oster­ley play host to a busi­ness chan­nel? They have got some extra space, I seem to recall…

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ITN">Sky and ITN

October 2, 2007

Here’s the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion reject­ing Sky, as it relates to TV news: We do not think that this share­hold­ing is suf­fi­cient to give rise to com­pet­i­tion con­cerns in other areas we’ve looked at such as advert­ising and TV news pro­vi­sion. As far as the media pub­lic interest con­sid­er­a­tion is con­cerned, we do not think there […]

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