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New ideas for TV news
I don’t think television news should ever ignore new ideas on how to win back audiences. STAN: All right, we all need to come up with ideas for our show. KYLE: How about we revamp the name? Super School News sounds dry. CARTMAN: It should be Sexy News. TOKEN: Action News. STAN: Yeah, Sexy Action,…
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Postman on technology
I recently came across this brief essay from the late, great Neil Postman. You might enjoy it. His five conclusions below. First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater the price. Second, that there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always try to persuade the…
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Whinges from Wikileaks
The guys at Wikileaks (a site I much admire) are not happy. And instead of bearing their unhappiness stoically, they are having a whinge. If they don’t press release stuff, it doesn’t get reported. Journalists are lazy. Bloggers are windbags. None of us escape.
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Thoughts on the BBC rebrand
From Press Gazette: The £550,000 question – do you need to rebrand your customer-facing side when you reorganise your back office?Peter Horrocks’ first major move, since his elevation to BBC newsroom supremo, has been to hand over half a million quid in consulting cash to Martin Lambie-Nairn.