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Two views on TV news
I had a chance to look over the memo from ITN’s Dave Mannion on the return of News At Ten. Without repeating it in full, it offers important insights into the thinking of one of Britain’s best television journalists. We have been given a prime time slot. Our job is not simply to split the…
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What the US military thinks of journalism
So what does the US military really think about journalists? Below are excerpts from a report that addresses wider issues about the first Battle of Fallujah but contains some interesting points about “information operations,” in Orwellian milspeak. The document is chiefly the work of Jane Austen fan Dr Sean Edwards, on whom more below. But…
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Do Readers Know What They Want?
That was the title of a speech by Vinod Mehta, editor of Indian magazine Outlook, as he picked up the International Press Institute award for exposing corruption and incompetence in the Indian navy. Here is a little excerpt: [C]ontent is a mix of what the reader wants and what he does not want. The trick…
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Rumblings at Al Jazeera English
From the Friends of Al Jazeera blog: Well it looks like my husband and I (and our children) will be leaving Doha sooner than planned. Al Jazeera International (or Al Jazeera English as we were forced to call it after objections from the Arabic news channel) was launched 13 months ago. Since then two things…