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Clive Jones
Michael Grade has saved his first salary with the departure of Clive Jones. Not one to mince words, in closing the ITV News Channel Jones famously told newsroom staffers that it was “a bleeding sore”. Jones was one of the last of the regional news barons who rose through ITV‘s ranks without stopping at ITN.…
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Media reductionism
It is said that the majority of Americans read nothing except the paper. If they read that thoroughly, they have time for nothing else. Charles Dudley Warner, The American Newspaper The Crisis of eloquence is not a little altered…as men now endeavouir to summe up their Notions, and draw them into a sharp angle…John Hall,…
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Enron and the curse of contrarianism
NOCERA on GLADWELL: To be sure, his central point is largely correct, though hardly the contrarian revelation he makes it out to be: Wall Street’s corps of analysts, hedge fund operators, ratings agencies and all the rest should really have paid more attention to Enron’s public disclosures.Nice piece from the NYT‘s Joe Nocera unpicking Malcolm…