This week’s Economist has a surprisingly weak piece, A new fashion for state-owned English-language television news. It ends a hackneyed review with this conclusion:

For audiences, having more news channels should be a boon. But they are expensive, and in many places the burden will fall on taxpayers. Some lucky people (in America, especially) may get the chance to channel-hop their way through news services from all over the world without having to subsidise them. But they will hardly bother to strain their index fingers unless governments learn a bit of subtlety.

Worth waiting for, eh?

Denmark is bucking the trend with a new Danish 24-hour news channel, care of its public service broadcaster – TV2. [IHT]

You can watch it here, and it’s blogged about here. Hope it’s not a slow day…