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Jeremy Bowen
Stephen Pollard’s attack on Jeremy Bowen has gained some new supporters, according to the Jerusalem Post. Andrew Balcombe, chairman of the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland, has written to the chair of the BBC Trust, Dr Chitra Bharucha, following a leaked e-mail Bowen sent last month that questions Bowen’s impartiality as he appears to…
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CBB media coverage in India…
In case you thought it was just the British media that got kicked for coverage of CBB…here’s an Indian reader from the Patna Daily: The biggest irony with Indian media is its obsession with insignificant issues and its ability to transform such trivial matters into a national debate. At the same time, it is well…
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Climate change
Post the IPCC report I checked in on the blog at Scientific American. There’s an interesting piece on the lack of irony among Rolling Stone readers. In response to a playlist called Al Gore was wrong, some RS posters let rip: Which one of the following theories is without merit?A) Einstein’s Theory of RelativityB) Gore’s…
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The golden age of CBS?
Back in 1968, the unskeptical tone reporters used to bridge the sound bites from a State Department briefing or a Nixon transition team news conference would have seemed like uncontroversial straight reporting. The same technologies applied today would look like stenography, even flackery, for government officialsSome fascinating stuff on CBS News‘ excellent Public Eye site…