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Crunch Time book cover choice…
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Sky bye
Let’s hope Ofcom makes the case to keep Sky News available on Freeview, or bang go millions of homes. Journo-blogger Chris Doidge makes the point well: …the news that Sky News is to retreat from such a popular platform (almost certainly losing a large percentage of its viewers) suggests Sky has little faith in the…
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Anna Nicole Smith
REUTERS “The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web. Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.”The coverage of Anna Nicole Smith‘s untimely death has some (e.g. Reuters‘ Eric Auchard) snorting. Hard-hearted old swine that…
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A regulator writes…
What if journalists were painted with the same weary skepticism they brush over others? You don’t have to imagine. Earlier this week former Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth (crazy name etc.), previewed a conference on media reform at Columbia’s J-School. Before your eyelids snap firmly shut, here’s a little outside perspective on us as…