Month: March 2007

  • "Balancing" climate change

    The other night on UK television’s Channel 4 Richard Lindzen presented a programme called The Great Climate Change Swindle. [See Martin Moore] Lindzen dissents vocally from the scientific consensus, in arguing that climate change is not man made. But Lindzen goes beyond just dissent in his views on policy. Here’s part of liberal academic blogger…

  • Online news and advertising…

    Depressing news (not that we didn’t know it) from our friends in the VC business: To get to $50m in revenue you would need 50 billion pageviews in a year, or just over 4 billion per month. The BBC gets a billion pageviews a month. On the figures above, that would bring in about $12.5m…

  • Question Time: Mentorn wins furniture contract

    People often ask me – What do I have to do to win a current affairs commission? My answer is always simple and direct: build portable seating. The offer to construct portable seating was also understood to have impressed BBC executives considering bids from Mentorn and three other shortlisted independent production companies. [MG] Now if…

  • Pentagon vs Press (MoD vs ITV News?)

    ITV News journalists will ask themselves if this sounds familiar… Army Tries to Spin Walter Reed Story, Gets Bitten in the AssAlia Malek The articles on Walter Reed Army Medical Center that ran last week in both the Washington Post and the Army Times revealed a shameful reality awaiting wounded soldiers returning from Iraq. The…