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China’s Olympic media strategy
Reporters Sans Frontieres has a memo on how the Chinese authorities plan to deal with journalists in the run up to the Olympics. Now it may well have a sinister side, but there are signs of movement in advice like this: Attitudes must evolve: we must prepare to be totally open to interviews by foreign…
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The mysterious Wall Street Journal
As the Wall Street Journal staffs up to broaden its appeal, bemusement here over the WSJ plan. The focus on America seems odd. Is the U.S. crying out for a national newspaper? Won’t widening the WSJ offering necessarily reduce the business focus? After all if you want to lose money with a conservative national daily…
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Can You Trust The Media? – regretting the errors
So the thing about writing books and not blog posts is that they go to printers. Then people point out that you might not have got something right. And there is no comments section and no opportunity to update what you have written (barring the miracle of other editions). So what to do about it?…
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Can You Trust The Media? – the basic outline
In case you can’t make it to Cambridge, here is an outline of the arguments presented in Can You Trust The Media? There will be a launch event at City University on 30 April at 6.30pm. More details later. If you’d like to review the book online contact me for a pdf. But first what…