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Grade to ITV
Jeff Randall seems to have had the scoop on Michael Grade‘s move to ITV. Grade probably only had it in him to go on making worthy speeches for so long! ITV News at 10.30pm is left to go with “reports that…” in the headlines and poor old Harry Smith doing a studio spot. Sir Peter…
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France 24 – dodgy continental graphics
Jean Gabin in Quai des Brumes, Philippe Noiret in La Vie et rien d’autre, Depardieu in Le Colonel Chabert, Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Béart in Un Coeur en Hiver. Some of my favourite movies are French. But I have a problem (not in my lousy taste in movies) – I don’t get the French fascination…
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Virgin Media Democracy
Once upon a time lefty academics used to write unreadable tomes about the problem of concentration of media power (Robert McChesney anyone?). Forget William Randolph Hearst and Max Beaverbrook. They were concerned. Now, at last they have allies in the world of corporate PR. Here’s Sir Richard Branson‘s larynx, Will Whitehorn (pictured left, smiling –…
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Litvinenko – a tale of two blogs
If you want a cynical take on Alexander Litvinenko‘s death read copydude, who pulls in this month’s Anglo-Russian extradition agreement to finger Boris Berezovsky. Extradition is a funny old business though…just ask General Pinochet. Meanwhile Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone manages to wrap the Litvinenko story up with phone masts! Nice touch Lynne.