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Month: October 2007

  • Roger Ailes, the Jackie Mason of news

    I can’t help myself. I have great admiration for Roger Ailes. Take a look at these clips that didn’t make the cut from a Wall Street Journal interview transcript: WSJ: Your best friend and longtime colleague, Chet Collier, died recently. What are some of the things you learned from Chet – either about the television…

  • Al Jazeera back in Saudi?

    Interesting post suggesting that Al Jazeera may be back in Saudi Arabia. The Jeddah summit between Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz resulted in a deal, according to an article in Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida: Saudi Arabia would return its ambassador to Qatar. There has been no Saudi…

  • Alan Yentob: mea maxima exculpa

    So Alan Yentob is in the clear. Phew! There’s no evidence that ‘noddies’ were inserted into his broadcast work. Ahem. What it actually looks like, is that although it is more than likely that he filmed fake cutaways, they never ended up being aired. He told an old chum: “I’m sorry – I hope you…

  • Seeing Wikipedia’s editorial struggles

    A visual representation of the most hotly contested pages on Wikipedia from A Beautiful WWW. They have a new science visualization here.