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Weekend Business
Last night the Telegraph‘s Jeff Randall used his Weekend Business show on BBC Radio 5 Live show to converse with James Murdoch. You can hear their chat on this link. It’s about five minutes in. Murdoch doesn’t let much slip and blags effectively on behalf of Sky. The show is a legacy from Randall’s era…
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Dan Rather Reports
Ever wanted to hear these words? “Ratings don’t matter, demos don’t matter. You’re working for a channel I own and operate by myself. We don’t have to be concerned about stockholder value, entanglements of large global corporations or their regulatory needs in Washington.” That wasn’t a dream. That’s what Internet billionaire Mark Cuban told ex-CBS…
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Public interest in the BNP
The British National Party‘s Nick Griffin and Mark Collett give the stuff that lingers round the bath tub rim a bad name. Their previous thoughts are a matter of record. Here’s a little selection from The Times. And yet party leader Griffin also tries to claim that the BNP is removed from such transparently evil…
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Jeremy Vine
Jeremy Vine is to be the new face of the prime-time Panorama, soon to be available as a compact. [MG] Vine has reinvented himself pretty successfully on Radio 2. Hours of daily vocal exercise have relaxed the clipped Paxman-esque diction that plagued Vine’s TV persona, and – in the un-Paxman-esque enthusiasm – you can detect…