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The Whitehall Press Corps
Two different views of yesterday’s Blair-Bush presser, care of Media Matters: Long live the British press! In contrast to the small-bore questions that American reporters posed to President Bush yesterday about his Iraq policy, two British journalists cut right to the central issue of the president’s credibility… WaPo‘s Daniel Froomkin bigs up Nick Robinson and…
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Enough respect – tolerance take 2
Scary. When Tony Blair starts repeating stuff I’ve blogged (People wanting to settle in Britain must conform to its tolerant values), the only conclusion can be, I’m no better than he is – and probably worse, as I actually write my own material. Here is my post from a while back, imaginatively titled Enough respect…
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The Dead Journalists Society
“Even if we were to publish pictures of Putin receiving suitcases of money at the Kremlin door, no one would care.”ROMAN SHLEINOVNovaya GazetaThe Wall Street Journal is carrying a really excellent piece on Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the paper that employed, amongst others, Anna Politkovskaya. It deals with two problems for journalists in Russia. One…
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The Beeb – worth more than 41p?
Timothy Garton Ash makes this argument on behalf of the BBC: The BBC is asking for an increase just above inflation, so that by 2013 we would be charged about £150 a year, in today’s money. That’s 41p a day. Are you prepared to pay 41p a day for everything you get from the BBC?…