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Alan Yentob: mea maxima exculpa
So Alan Yentob is in the clear. Phew! There’s no evidence that ‘noddies’ were inserted into his broadcast work. Ahem. What it actually looks like, is that although it is more than likely that he filmed fake cutaways, they never ended up being aired. He told an old chum: “I’m sorry – I hope you…
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Seeing Wikipedia’s editorial struggles
A visual representation of the most hotly contested pages on Wikipedia from A Beautiful WWW. They have a new science visualization here.
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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…