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Tony Blair vs H.L.Mencken
Amid Tony Blair’s excoriation, I thought I’d dig up something from 1914 by H.L.Mencken. It puts, rather more eloquently than some commentators, the case for the media.
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Kate Adie: hates bloggers, BBC management, etc.
Mike Mullane has a nice post about a conversation with Kate Adie, who he memorably describes as “a sort of cross between Dan Rather and Dame Flora Robson as Lady Bracknell.”Adie, who was the Lara Logan of her day, still presents BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. But she’s not happy about blogging or…
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Tony Blair and press dictatorship
Tony Blair got a predictably poor reception to his speech yesterday. In it he quoted former prime minister Stanley Baldwin. Baldwin’s oft-cited speech came in the context of a long-running campaign against his leadership of the Conservative Party by Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere. The two men were owners of the Daily Express and Daily Mail…
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Secret Blog of a TV Controller (aged 33 and 3/4)
Not my cup of tea, and I’m normally rather bad at gossip, but could the TV Controller blog be the work of some comedian at Tiger Aspect? Like I said…