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RSS problems
Thanks to issues with RSS 2.0 and Feedburner I’ve had to switch to Atom. If you’re subscribing via RSS then – ironically – you won’t get this post.
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The Wall Street Journal should read its own history
An owner “most properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposition.” WSJ, 1925Anyone considering the absurd talk of editorial strictures being put around the Wall Street Journal prior to its possible purchase by Rupert Murdoch might want to look into the Journal’s own archives. Back in January 1925 it published an op-ed titled, “A…
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BBC World News Today
I have a piece at the Guardian today reviewing the Beeb’s revamp of its international newscast, The World – now World News Today (World News Tonight already belonging to ABC). Basically, the UK scheduling puts this up against Britain’s equivalent of NewsHour, and that’s got people asking why the BBC is duplicating something already offered…
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Time bombs
The effects of depopulation are going to provide some of the more interesting social, political and cultural phenomena of the late twenty-first century. As women’s literacy has increased, so birth rates have declined across western economies. Anyone who has watched someone go through pregnancy can figure out why. Women are voting with their fertility. So…