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Sky and ITN
Here’s the Competition Commission rejecting Sky, as it relates to TV news: We do not think that this shareholding is sufficient to give rise to competition concerns in other areas we’ve looked at such as advertising and TV news provision. As far as the media public interest consideration is concerned, we do not think there…
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Andrew Gilligan: hero of journalism…
Andrew Gilligan takes one more chance to defend himself at CiF: Although Hutton was, of course, a tactical triumph for [Alastair Campbell], with a knockout victory in the report and three good BBC scalps, it was an unparalleled strategic disaster. If his aim in taking us on was to disprove my story about the sexed-up…
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Two takes on news, and one on journalism
Three quotes to chew on, one from soon-to-be Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff: You can’t put this too starkly: the news as a pastime, as a form of media, is vaudeville. The news business — our crowd of overexcited people narrating events as they happen — is going out of business. This from a guy called…
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Journalism’s greatest quality – availability
What do people want from the news? The folks at every CEO’s favourite consultancy have some of the answers: When asked to explain which sources of news were most useful, respondents expressed a preference for those offering convenience, comprehensiveness, or timeliness rather than quality. Specifically, they were far more likely to consider a news source…