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Fake news
The fake news debate has been given a new twist in China. The Shanghai Daily is reporting on bogus journos who apparently threaten to expose corruption unless paid to stay silent: In less than 100 days, from early August to November 9, an anti-fake-reporter campaign in an otherwise little known city in coal-rich Shanxi Province…
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What makes reporters tick?
Some readers are convinced that certain reporters at the New York Times are motivated solely by partisan politics … reporters and editors … are not motivated by a devotion to any political party or cause.The public editor of the New York Times,Byron Calame, has been figuring out what makes reporters tick. With nearly forty years…
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Grade news at 10.30pm
Melvyn Bragg rather outshone and outluvvied ITV News business editor Mark Eddo at 10.30pm. Eddo didn’t mention the line from Grade about looking at the news: I think news is very very important for a big network. And it is very interesting that in the competitive situation in America, although they’ve cut back the investment…
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TV News critics 2
Mark Lawson (like me, shamefully overlooked by Cotswold Life, see right) obviously took my earlier blog to heart. He has a piece in today’s Media Guardian – which if not a mea culpa is a kind of they-a culpa – calling on TV critics to reinvent themselves…