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Al Jazeera on the Daily Show
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Journalism jobs
According to the Liverpool Echo, ‘top’ graduates are facing up to low paid jobs in the media. Gosh. One of the people quoted is recent Oxford grad Pipper Rimmer. Pippa, maybe? A quick Google search reveals that Pippa Rimmer was a first-year linguist in 2002. Oh dear. Journalism is not a career choice for anyone…
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Radical transparency
Jeff Jarvis gives his take on Chris Anderson‘s idea of radical transparency for journalism. I’m not so convinced. I’ve seen radical transparency before. Remember restaurants in the 1990s? Everywhere you went you could see into the kitchen. Instead of your meal emerging from a pair of swing doors, you could see dinner taking shape amid…
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Today and Jonathan Aitken 2
Today had Jonathan Aitken on – again. I’ve blogged on this before. The discussion was on the decision by the SFO to drop their investigation into BAe. Last time they introduced Aitken as the minister who “famously came unstuck.” This morning John Humphrys introduced him like this: “Conservative government defence minister and he had responsibility…