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Jeremy Paxman: regional news fan
[J]ust look at almost any regional news programme, with its tawdry catalogue of misfortune, recited in deadbeat vocabulary. You’d think that every child in the city was being sexually abused, every journey every day disrupted, resulting in ‘pure misery’, every teenager a drug-crazed psychopath. Does it alarm? Sure. Does it help us understand? You must…
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Light posting
I have a deadline to meet on Can You Trust The Media so I’ll be posting lightly until October 1st when normal poor levels of service will resume!
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The CBS Evening News business
How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics): Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked…
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Great writing
Never really had a chance to see the writing of Malcolm Muggeridge – I remember him as a faintly embarrassing figure of fun. But here’s a lovely excerpt of Muggeridge describing America in the 1950s: What they all want … is what the Americans have got – six lanes of large motor cars streaming powerfully…