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Shameless self promotion
I would be failing in my duty of shameless self promotion if I didn’t draw your attention to this nugget from Jack Shafer in the Washington Post:
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Missionaries, mercenaries and misfits
Lara Pawson, currently a writer in residence at the University of Witwatersrand, has a chapter out in a new book edited by Kenyan author, Rasna Warah. Don’t judge it by the cover (unless, of course, you really LOVE the cover). Here’s what she sent me: It’s a very readable anthology featuring some of East Africa’s…
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links for 2008-07-19
Ben Silverman’s Comments on Margins vs. Ratings Signal the End of Broadcast Television The recipe for profitable broadcast television is pretty simple: Develop large audiences that you can accurately measure and sell them to advertisers who need to reach them. The shows that do this even have a name, “Hits.” (tags: television ratings margins business…
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links for 2008-07-18
Study into the economic impact of the BBC on the UK | BBC Trust It’s great! Shocker. (tags: bbc-trust bbc pwc report economic impact) Some inconvenient truths | Ofcom “[M]arket provision may now be such that the consumer market failure arguments that sustained the old rationale for PSB, have been superseded. We are left largely…