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John Simpson: wrong and right about TV news
From John Simpson: All the signs are that British people are simply becoming less interested in the world around them. Once upon a time, we used to think that this kind of isolationism was something particularly American, like high levels of crime, the possession of guns and wide-scale drug addiction. Americans weren’t interested much in…
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Losing Kaplinsky
A source close to Natasha Kaplinsky tells MediaGuardian that she’s trousering £1m a year to join five. BBC insiders reckon Kaplinsky’s loss was the real reason Peter Fincham quit. Five’s news supremo Chris Shaw hammers the keyboard on behalf of the MediaGuardian fairly regularly, so you’d think they’d get a quote off him – but…