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The Simpsons on the future of newspapers
The Simpsons on the future of newspapers (HT: Mark Hamilton).
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Honesty in factual entertainment
Isn’t it time for the tricks – I don’t know what else you’d call them – of factual entertainment to be made as transparent in the UK as in the US? The Guardian’s media diary notes of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: We would have liked the Granada America show even more had it not been…
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“Balance” in diplomacy: lessons for journalism
I am sorry to say I have never had much time for diplomats. Prejudice, you understand. Reading former British diplomat Carne Ross’s enjoyable and self-critical memoir – Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite – hasn’t exactly changed my mind. But as well as reminding UK tax-payers that they could save a lot of money…
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What’s gone wrong at Al Jazeera English?
Check out the anonymous piece below on Al Jazeera English, posted – bizarrely – in the comments section of a Dubai media blog on 26 December, 2007. It certainly chimes with some of the things I’ve heard. And further below, more on soft-pedalling re. Saudi Arabia at AJE’s Arabic sister channel: What’s gone wrong at…