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Hello darkness, my old friend
“You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.” Alexander Litvinenko‘s posthumous curse is unlikely to have Vladimir Putin reaching for the earbuds just yet. And no one in the Kremlin is listening out for…
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TV News – who gives a Ross?
In television, I think we should start talking about the cost of what we do in Rosses – Jonathan Rosses. Just to refresh your memory, Jonathan takes home/homes about six million quid a year. So ITV News costs £35 million, that’s a six Ross deal. Channel 4 News is about £20 million, just over three…
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Al Jaz English vs. Al Jaz
Interesting reaction to AJE from Jamal Dajani: The new channel’s editorial policy seems more restrained. When a 70-year-old resident died of his wounds after being hit in an Israeli attack on Gaza, the Arabic Al Jazeera reported that he was ‘martyred.’ At Al Jazeera English, however, he was simply ‘killed.’ Another major difference is the…
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Reuters Institute launch 2
No sign yet of a language guide to go alongside the ethics statement at Al Jazeera. But, searching their archive of print stories online, they have reported a suicide bombing at Netanya in Israel as a bomber has blown himself up – which to me implies incompetence rather than intentionality. In the same report they…