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Month: November 2006

  • Hello darkness, my old friend

    “You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.” Alexander Litvinenko‘s posthumous curse is unlikely to have Vladimir Putin reaching for the earbuds just yet. And no one in the Kremlin is listening out for…

  • TV News – who gives a Ross?

    In television, I think we should start talking about the cost of what we do in Rosses – Jonathan Rosses. Just to refresh your memory, Jonathan takes home/homes about six million quid a year. So ITV News costs £35 million, that’s a six Ross deal. Channel 4 News is about £20 million, just over three…

  • Al Jaz English vs. Al Jaz

    Interesting reaction to AJE from Jamal Dajani: The new channel’s editorial policy seems more restrained. When a 70-year-old resident died of his wounds after being hit in an Israeli attack on Gaza, the Arabic Al Jazeera reported that he was ‘martyred.’ At Al Jazeera English, however, he was simply ‘killed.’ Another major difference is the…

  • Bring out the Branson

    Screw It, Let’s Do It. Looks like James Murdoch has been taking ‘lessons in life’ from Richard Branson. Sir Richard, a minority shareholder in NTL, is unhappy because James has snuck in and bought a billion quid’s worth of ITV stock. Sir Rick’s anger has led him into the dangerous academic trap of asserting ‘strong’…