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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept…
“years ago we were hungry, oppressed, living in a big prison and hopeless but we had each other … we were more than friends WE WERE BROTHERS and agreed to hate the government of Saddam … i know we are still brothers but we can’t visit each other home now and most of us can…
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Time on France 24
Rumors of political maneuverings have been so thick that late last month an editorial in Le Monde accused the channel’s bosses of “schemings unworthy of a banana republic.”Time takes a skeptical look at Jacques Chirac’s answer to the entire Anglo-Saxon broadcast news media, France 24. The managing editor doesn’t use my favourite word (“weltanschauung“), but…
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Interview with John Lloyd in the Sydney Morning Herald: …good reporting requires time and money. How can the internet, where most information is free, pay for it? Lloyd fears that if papers cannot find an online business model they will slip inexorably into being a niche product. Who, then, will investigate and challenge power? A…
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Greg Dyke on Today
The current external handicaps faced by the organisation in respect of Charter Review would be greatly relieved in the wake of Greg’s departure.Obviously no-one on the Today programme has read Greg Dyke‘s Inside Story. The intro for the Dyke interview today, going over the minutes from the Governors’ meetings (which the BBC had sought to…