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Off topic: Crews control
Currently reading Frederick Crews’ Follies of the Wise. If I needed a new motto for this blog it might come from him: “we do not have things to say. We acquire them in the process of working on definite problems that catch our attention.” This is from his intro to Follies: My aim in telling…
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Al Jazeera, the Marash analysis
So Dave Marash admits he quit Al Jazeera English after being bumped out of the anchor chair and on to the road. Not exactly how he first explained it. Still, we all have our amour propre, what is interesting in the CJR piece is his analysis of the shifting politics of Qatar (my links in…
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News editors – read the comments…
I try not to do this (being far from perfect), but have a read of the following story which asks, by way of reporting, Baby joy for Kaplinsky – but are Five chiefs happy? Natasha Kaplinsky, who six weeks ago became the face of Five News on an annual salary of £1 million, making her…