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Fox on the run?
According to the Huffington Post, Fox News is losing share against CNN Headline News and MSNBC. The Post ventures that the Democrat wins in the mid-terms took the puff out of FNC’s sails. Certainly on election night CNN won the 25-54 demographic, but Fox remained the winner overall. Don’t start the obituaries quite yet…
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Sky-TN
The news that Sky are buying into ITV makes me a little nervous for ITN. Admittedly £940 million is a big chunk of change and a pootling £35 million a year in savings by dumping your news provider is nothing, but… [MG]
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Power and TV
The BBC’s surprise that someone from Al Jazeera English would not be routinely attending Downing Street press briefings is charming. Al Jazeera’s argument is that it won’t be concentrating on the powerful. [Indy] But first here’s the Beeb’s Richard Porter on November 15th: …we don’t aim to cover British news – unless it has some…
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Al Jazeera English – online unpleasantness
As if to demonstrate the fact that freedom of communication can also mean freedom to bitch mercilessly, someone drew my attention to a forum on Al Jazeera, called (surprisingly when you come to read it) – Friends of Al Jazeera. It features a poster called haroldlloyd who seems to be surfing a wave of Angosturan…