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Grade – the half-corona of success
In March the FT reported that pre-Hutton, Michael Grade was part of a team trying to put together a private equity bid for ITV. [FT ] Now, in the two years before he qualifies for a senior rail card, Grade trades a six figure pay cheque for seven, and coasts into Grays Inn Road on…
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Writing school…
I’m not a fan of Jeff Jarvis ordinarily, but this is a nice piece of critical work.
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David Dimbleby for Chairman
The campaign should begin now – not least to persuade David Dimbleby to throw his hat in the ring once more. The new BBC Trust will need a chairman willing to hold the BBC to account. Plus the ability to repeat the kind of homilies about BBC values that always sounded so inappropriate when voiced…
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TV News critics 2
Mark Lawson (like me, shamefully overlooked by Cotswold Life, see right) obviously took my earlier blog to heart. He has a piece in today’s Media Guardian – which if not a mea culpa is a kind of they-a culpa – calling on TV critics to reinvent themselves…