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How stories shift…
ITN would consider TV news channel still a possibility?partnershipDigital Spy, UK – 2 hours 1 hour agoBy Joanne Oatts, Media Correspondent ITN chief executive Mark Wood has said the news operation wouldn’t rule out launching supplying news for a 24-hour TV news channel. …
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Divided media
If you want to know what a divided media really looks like, forget the liberal/conservative rows and watch the clip above. Faisal Abbas from Asharq Alawsat has the full story. You’ll hear an open mike incident from the Lebanon’s National Broadcast Network, which is ‘close’ politically to pro-Syrian House Speaker Nabih Berri. Over pictures of…
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Tony Blair vs H.L.Mencken
Amid Tony Blair’s excoriation, I thought I’d dig up something from 1914 by H.L.Mencken. It puts, rather more eloquently than some commentators, the case for the media.
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Kate Adie: hates bloggers, BBC management, etc.
Mike Mullane has a nice post about a conversation with Kate Adie, who he memorably describes as “a sort of cross between Dan Rather and Dame Flora Robson as Lady Bracknell.”Adie, who was the Lara Logan of her day, still presents BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. But she’s not happy about blogging or…