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Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko
On November 9th, Alexander Litvinenko was due to have taken part in a panel debate at City University to discuss the killing of reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko was a friend of Politkovskaya’s. He couldn’t make it due to illness – an illness which is now being investigated as a poisoning. British politicians have been embarrassingly…
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Fox on the run?
According to the Huffington Post, Fox News is losing share against CNN Headline News and MSNBC. The Post ventures that the Democrat wins in the mid-terms took the puff out of FNC’s sails. Certainly on election night CNN won the 25-54 demographic, but Fox remained the winner overall. Don’t start the obituaries quite yet…
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Sky-TN
The news that Sky are buying into ITV makes me a little nervous for ITN. Admittedly £940 million is a big chunk of change and a pootling £35 million a year in savings by dumping your news provider is nothing, but… [MG]
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Power and TV
The BBC’s surprise that someone from Al Jazeera English would not be routinely attending Downing Street press briefings is charming. Al Jazeera’s argument is that it won’t be concentrating on the powerful. [Indy] But first here’s the Beeb’s Richard Porter on November 15th: …we don’t aim to cover British news – unless it has some…