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Weekend reading…
Second weekend excuse…this highly entertaining blog post from Eurotrash. It comprehensively works over a young music reviewer from a local London paper, and also journalists generally: Step forward Dean…From your picture, you appear sneering, which is an excellent attribute for any journalist. This week Dean is ‘presenting’ to us, Ginger Bread Men, who come complete…
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Vocation
It’s the weekend, so forgive a digression. Although poems about journalism are few, there are some out there who might catch their reflection in this sonnet from Auden‘s series The Quest: XII Incredulous, he stared at the amusedOfficial writing down his name amongThose whose request to suffer was refused. The pen ceased scratching: though he…
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Bashir un-bashed
News emerges, via veteran U.S. TV writer Tom Shales, of Martin Bashir. In case you’d forgotten, he’s on the post-Ted Koppel Nightline, which airs on ABC (imagine the post-Jon Snow Channel 4 News). Shales notes that: Nightline has survived its initial case of post-Koppel stress disorder and emerged a solid, ambitious news broadcast, one that…
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Fake news
The fake news debate has been given a new twist in China. The Shanghai Daily is reporting on bogus journos who apparently threaten to expose corruption unless paid to stay silent: In less than 100 days, from early August to November 9, an anti-fake-reporter campaign in an otherwise little known city in coal-rich Shanxi Province…