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What makes reporters tick?
Some readers are convinced that certain reporters at the New York Times are motivated solely by partisan politics … reporters and editors … are not motivated by a devotion to any political party or cause.The public editor of the New York Times,Byron Calame, has been figuring out what makes reporters tick. With nearly forty years…
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Stephen Grey’s Ghost Plane
For those of you following the rendition story, [Guardian] Stephen Grey who has worked so hard to bring the story to international attention, has posted some interesting new material today on his site, www.ghostplane.net. He’s posted all available flight logs of the CIA’s alleged fleet of aircraft. Compiled from aviation sources it is a searchable…
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Grade news at 10.30pm
Melvyn Bragg rather outshone and outluvvied ITV News business editor Mark Eddo at 10.30pm. Eddo didn’t mention the line from Grade about looking at the news: I think news is very very important for a big network. And it is very interesting that in the competitive situation in America, although they’ve cut back the investment…
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TV News critics 2
Mark Lawson (like me, shamefully overlooked by Cotswold Life, see right) obviously took my earlier blog to heart. He has a piece in today’s Media Guardian – which if not a mea culpa is a kind of they-a culpa – calling on TV critics to reinvent themselves…