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TV news in 2008…
In 2007, Mark Thompson Peter Horrocks apparently walked into a meeting of top BBC talent and declared – not untruthfully – “There is no market for newsreaders.” Unfortunately “even a dead cat bounces” (as finance types say) and the market promptly leapt back into action and Natasha Kaplinsky and Dermot Murnaghan both left the BBC…
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The biggest stories you won’t see headlined
The biggest stories you won’t see headlining the news are Germany and southern Europe’s growing dependence on Russia. And China’s advance into Africa. Where four decades of Warsaw Pact weaponry failed, gas and oil pipelines are succeeding. Russia’s influence runs right up to the Rhine – and where communism couldn’t win converts, cash and a…
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Policy Exchange vs. Newsnight: Round 2
Here is Policy Exchange chairman Charles Moore using his Telegraph column to attack Newsnight editor Peter Barron in round 2 of the popular Think Tank vs. BBC battle. Moore, a former editor of the Spectator, the Sunday and the Daily Telegraph does not do himself any favours, as you can see. Over the summer, Policy…
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One thing to make the world better in 2008
“What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?” That is the question being asked on YouTube by the organisers of the World Economic Forum. It’s called the Davos Question, after the name of the Swiss ski resort where Forum members meet…