Month: February 2007

  • Peter Horrocks is taking on straw man Robin Aitken tonight. Oddly enough I can’t post comments on the BBC Editor’s blog (conspiracy? OK technical cock-up probably)…meanwhile some gossip from RTS night. I heard Mr H was scoring juries by the judge…in the words of John Lydon, anger is an energy. I admire it. Defeats shouldn’t…

  • Monocle 2

    Nice interview with Monocle‘s Tyler B by Reuter‘s Matt Cowans here.

  • Sound and vision online

    The Monocle website has an interesting stab at combining audio and stills here. Audio of writer Fiona Wilson discussing her piece runs over stills. Problem – it’s not as good as a piece from an equivalent audio offering like the BBC‘s From Our Own Correspondent, and crucially it doesn’t sell in the piece. After hearing…

  • Tony Blair, cover story

    Newsweek spokeswoman: “Tony Blair is an international figure and he’s an international story. Hence we put him on the cover of all of our overseas issues.”How important is Tony Blair in the United States? The Huffington Post picks up on Newsweek‘s decision to run Blair as a cover on every edition except the one published…