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Planning for defeat in Basra
So the question is, will there be an election before or after our defeat in Iraq? In all the recent posturing from Mark Malloch Brown about the changing nature of the UK/US relationship, you may have missed the fact that a Republican administration that is leaving office can hardly feel minded to paint a British…
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Fin-in-the-Watergate: crisis of trust rocks tabloid news
The Sun got itself well and truly stung. Us TV types look forward to a full independent inquiry into how the paper was fooled and how it carried the hoax forward to its readers. OK, so we won’t be holding our breath.
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Fox News: teaseless, crapless
When people at Fox News start trotting out stuff you were doing five years ago, you know you’re getting old. Still, it is pretty sensible advice: Shepard Smith: We have to do more news. We’ve already given up the “coming up” teasing that we were known for in the early days. We’ve taken all of…
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Media future by numbers and headlines
Private equity house VSS is flagging up its new four-year media forecast, yours for just $2,495 – just drop the figures into your business plan! And while you are about it, choose your own headline…