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Tony Blair and press dictatorship
Tony Blair got a predictably poor reception to his speech yesterday. In it he quoted former prime minister Stanley Baldwin. Baldwin’s oft-cited speech came in the context of a long-running campaign against his leadership of the Conservative Party by Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere. The two men were owners of the Daily Express and Daily Mail…
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Google pays for news?
The Sunday Herald had a good little story: So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update) In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal): Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work? Moonves:…
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How to talk your way off air in just 36 years
Don Imus – the I-Man – is one of American radio’s institutions. Imus in the Morning has been on the air one way or another since 1971. For UK readers, think of John Humphrys with the forty years of reporting replaced by shock-jocking, cocaine and alcohol addiction. Then stick a Stetson on it. That’s Imus.…
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The News
THE News, indeed! – pray do you call it newsWhen shallow noddles publish shallow views?Pray is it news that turnips should be bredAs large and hollow as the owner’s head?News, that a clerk should rob his master’s hoard,Whose meagre salary scarcely pays his board?News, that two knaves, their spurious friendship o’er,Should tell the truths which…