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Guardian: in America, not in American
Launches today. It is in America, but not in American. Which to me is a missed opportunity, given my previous solo campaign (actually blog post) to adopt American English as the online standard. Although English (US) has its uglinesses, the Americans care far more about English than we do, as Inigo Thomas admits in his…
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The return of News At Ten
Now, at least, I can say to people under 30 that I once worked on News At Ten and they won’t gaze blankly back at me. (Then again, maybe it’s just the way I say it.)So if you wondered where the Dermot-sized gap at Sky News was coming from, now you know. Julie Etchingham will…
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Happy birthday, blog
This blog is officially a year old. A year on, Sitemeter reckons this blog has clocked up about 27,000 users, just over 2,000 a month. There seem to be about 250 subscribers. It was always my intention to build this up as a media property, and then sell it on. An online auction should be…
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Democracy might have saved the BBC
Now the BBC is in trouble and there is no one to come to its aid. In the final irony, its own rules on impartiality forbid it from campaigning against its own evisceration.Two years ago I hosted a lunch for Michael Grade where he explained his plans for revising BBC governance. After he talked amusingly…