Category: News

  • 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?…

  • A question of attribution

    Nick Robinson takes to his blog to “big up” his question to President Bush. I thought it was extraordinary that just the day after the Iraq study group had been so critical of what was happening in Iraq, the president used such soft language to describe the situation there. All we got from the president…

  • Germany’s male media

    Interesting piece on German media from the Economist: A dearth of women editors at the top WOMEN can also read. So might run a headline on the latest fad in the German press, which has suddenly discovered female readers, and is running articles of special interest to them. Several newspapers have also run features on…

  • France 24 – Fromage…dommage!

    MY VERDICT?I wish France Vingt-Quatre was either more French, or more professional (like AJE). You’re promised dinner in Paris, but instead get burger and chips on the Champs Élysées.Now available on Sky 515. I’m watching a revoiced package from the French channel on Le Salon du Chocolat. Here’s how the Frenchness manifests itself: On chocolate…