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Citizen CEOs: Blogging for bosses
A sign that the citizen CEO phenomenon has gone mainstream – the Telegraph has signed up a couple of new business bloggers for Davos. One of them is WPP boss Martin Sorrell. He hasn’t arrived yet, but here he is reflecting on the current market crisis and new media: Not only a disconnection between the…
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The worst journalistic outrage ever?
I have just been re-reading Edward Behr’s memoir of life in journalism. Its account of the war in Algeria has this numbing tale of journalistic behaviour, which must rank as one of the gravest professional outrages ever committed: …for sheer callousness, it was difficult to beat the French freelance photographer, with excellent OAS connections, who…
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My tiny part in Charlie Wilson’s War
And I mean barely discernible. Towards the end of Charlie Wilson’s War, Texan congressman Wilson (played by Tom Hanks) having helped finance the covert war in Afghanistan looks up at a TV screen and sees Dan Rather introduce a piece that begins with the final column of Red Army tanks crossing the Friendship bridge back…
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Breaks off News At Ten
News At Ten returned. With no commercial break. Deliberate? Permanent? Odd feeling in what was otherwise a very familiar programme package (well, I did work on it years ago). But down to business. You want an old-fashioned critique of an old-fashioned show? Start with the Bongs (the headlines). Hasnat Khan exclusive/Diana Georgina Edmonds murder Antarctic…