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Just who is the FT’s mysterious BBC Trust mole?
The Financial Times has a trenchant critique of BBC Worldwide and its impact on the public service broadcasting debate. But who exactly is the person ‘familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking’ that they quote? Or the leading London banker? Don’t be tempted by the obvious jigsaw identification. A person familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking…
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Andrew Sachs and two faces of the BBC
For anyone who is angry with the BBC for allowing two radio presenters to bully and humiliate an elderly man, 78-year old actor Andrew Sachs, listen to this programme.
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The educated palate: a media lesson from a new Nobel prize winner
Paul Krugman didn’t win the Nobel prize for economics for this. But maybe he should have. It’s a meditation on British food and why it was once so dreadful. (And there’s surely a lesson in there about education and media consumption.)
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Unrequired Reading {16.9.08 to 18.9.08 }
This is some of what’s caught my attention in the past hours: