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Westminster Media Forum – live blogging
WMF – Social networking, privacy and the press Gideon Benaim, Schillings Consensus is that elements of the press have gone too far… All private citizens have a right to challenge intrusions into their privacy. If press doesn’t rein itself in lawyers and govt will.
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Local schmokel
We live in a strange world. I work forty miles from where I sleep. The shopping gets delivered and the garbage gets taken away. The Atlantic and New Yorker arrive by post. Friends, work and everything else arrive via broadband. That’s my life. There’s not much local about it. Strike that. There really is nothing…
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McClatchy vs. Scott McClellan on the road to Iraq
In case you bought into Scott McClellan‘s claims that the US media failed to ask questions (of – erm – Scott McClellan) in the run up to war with Iraq (echoed by odd bedfellows like Nick Davies here in the UK), Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay at McClatchy have posted an impressive rebuttal.
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The value of live…
This from Jon Fine, quoting a 50-something news exec (my itals): The economics of content are totally compromised. For me, the best example of it is Madonna moving from Warner Brothers to Livenation. Because she knows that she can get more income from an event company than a music label. That’s because there is something…