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Greg Dyke on Today
The current external handicaps faced by the organisation in respect of Charter Review would be greatly relieved in the wake of Greg’s departure.Obviously no-one on the Today programme has read Greg Dyke‘s Inside Story. The intro for the Dyke interview today, going over the minutes from the Governors’ meetings (which the BBC had sought to…
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Currently reading Arop Madut-Arop‘s Sudan’s Painful Road to Peace: A Full Story of the Founding and Development of SPLM/SPLA.
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News: "a really expensive, exhaustive exercise…"
Mitchell Stephens in the Columbia Journalism Review has seen the future of journalism. It’s the Independent: The Independent is a serious English national daily in a market with three other serious national dailies. So the Independent, looking for an edge, has begun devoting most of its front page, weeklylike, to a single story — a…
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Media reductionism
It is said that the majority of Americans read nothing except the paper. If they read that thoroughly, they have time for nothing else. Charles Dudley Warner, The American Newspaper The Crisis of eloquence is not a little altered…as men now endeavouir to summe up their Notions, and draw them into a sharp angle…John Hall,…