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Endless amusement…
Rosie Boycott (onetime-Indie editor) got dumped from Hell’s Kitchen last night. With her final words, she summarised the difference between running a newspaper and a restaurant: in a restaurant you want to serve the same piece of lemon tart every night, on a newspaper you want every story to be different…it keeps you endlessly amused.…
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Why don’t books carry ads?
My holiday entertainment was watching an endless caravan of rain clouds cross the skies of a Breton peninsula. As an occasional diversion, I read a French guide book from 1909. Its pages were full of ads for grand hotels with casinos and spas where automobiles could be hired and fun could be had. All just…
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BBC impartiality and climate change
Writing recently about the BBC’s decision not to go ahead with a climate change special, Peter Horrocks observed: BBC news programmes and our website of course reflect alternative views but we do not balance these views mathematically as that is not our judgement about where the argument has now reached. The obvious reply (I only…
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Kay bumped
Katty Kay appears to be the casualty of the BBC America revamp which sees Matt Frei bump up to anchor and Philippa Thomas take a second anchor slot. The BBC World News America executive producer, Rome Hartman, said of the appointments: “We’re really lucky to have an opportunity to get Katty back into the field…