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From the ivory tower
Escaping my journalistic shackles, here’s a piece I did on university regulation for the Times Higher Educational Supplement. Subscription is free for 14 days.
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Off licence
…if they go mad and hire fifteen more Jonathan Rosses they’ll blow the whole wad!Exactly who believes that the leaked licence fee settlement is bad news for the BBC? Why BBC insiders, of course. Oh, and the NUJ and BECTU. In the real world, a 3% revenue rise for the next couple of years is…
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Somebodies and nobodies
Today is getting Rowan Williams, Yoko Ono and a couple of other people in, to ‘edit’ the programme over the festive period. Well, it beats paying overtime. The BBC is good with somebodies, but it doesn’t do as well with nobodies. It’s great at providing a platform for people who already have a platform, like…
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"Written by fools for the reading of imbeciles"
JOSEPH RAGO “The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.”…