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Category: Media

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  • Frank Stanton

    For all his accomplishments as an architect of CBS, Dr. Stanton had left the network in disillusion … “just another company with dirty carpets.” Frank Stanton is dead. Along with Paul Lazarsfeld he was one of the most influential quantifiers of opinion in the 20C, and one of the architects of mass media. “Programming should…

  • Xmas news

    I recall in the build-up to the first Gulf War being asked by a New York producer from CBS if we could do a piece on how Jordanians celebrated Christmas. It was a pretty short piece. Emily Wilson at Channel 4 News blogs on how hard it is to fill programmes at this time of…

  • Strange Christmas experiences…

    Two years ago I was Michael Aspel and Carol Smillie‘s phone-a-friend on the UK Xmas special of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: I’ve never met them… I got the answer right… I kind of knew they’d be calling… Weird, eh? Postscript: They only won a grand, after going for Will Self as author of…