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BBC impartiality and climate change
Writing recently about the BBC’s decision not to go ahead with a climate change special, Peter Horrocks observed: BBC news programmes and our website of course reflect alternative views but we do not balance these views mathematically as that is not our judgement about where the argument has now reached. The obvious reply (I only…
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Kay bumped
Katty Kay appears to be the casualty of the BBC America revamp which sees Matt Frei bump up to anchor and Philippa Thomas take a second anchor slot. The BBC World News America executive producer, Rome Hartman, said of the appointments: “We’re really lucky to have an opportunity to get Katty back into the field…
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Chipwrapping
Martin Belam has been engaged in some online heavy lifting to create Chipwrapper. It’s a custom search that just returns results from major UK news sites. What’s to like? As Lloyd Shepherd points out, Martin has created something that wasn’t there before. To express it in genuinely clunky terms – it allies online distribution with…
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Two Americas
David Warsh’s Economic Principals is a thin blogospheric vein of gold. Much recommended. This week, he’s reviewing Daniel Aaron’s memoir The Americanist which concludes: “[I] find myself a citizen of two Americas. One of them is the country of Uncle Sam, an America, in the words of Herman Melville, intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with boundless…