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Live blogging live news…
Hats off to Simon Waldman at BBC News 24 for live-blogging his gallery stint this morning. Interesting exercise, if slightly twitterish. At one point he points to traffic volumes on the BBC’s website providing a useful gauge of a story’s popularity. IMO they ought to stream talkback (the “conversation” in the gallery). For starters it’s…
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Rupert Murdoch: a lesson from history?
Press Gazette picks up on the media side of Tony Blair’s former comms chief, Alastair Campbell’s diaries. One of the more interesting revelations concerns the impact of Rupert Murdoch on his editors. July 1995 [Meeting Rupert Murdoch and addressing News Corp editors in Sydney] “I got a fascinating glimpse of the way editors work around…
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Claud Cockburn on proprietors
The humbug and hypocrisy of the Press begin only when newspapers pretend to be impartial or servants of the public. And this only becomes dangerous as well as laughable when the public is fool enough to believe it.“It seemed to me that a newspaper is always a weapon in somebody’s hands, and I never could…
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Young people – will they ever trust the media?
Over at The Editors – yes, it already sounds like a 70s Sunday night drama – Rod McKenzie is worried about younger audiences (he’s editor of Newsbeat), but he thinks he knows what they want: I think what young audiences want is robust, interesting, passionate debate about stories and issues that affect them and their…