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Off topic: How effective is chip and pin?
Last night, having completed an excellent course in computer assisted reporting led by Aron Pilhofer and David Donald, I was having a well deserved drink in a neighbourhood bar when my wallet and mobile phone were stolen. Within half an hour I had called up to cancel the cards, shut down the phone, etc. But…
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RDF – at least Channel 4 still loves them…
Whilst RDF do about a fifth of their business with ITV and BBC, their main client is the reassuringly silent Channel 4. One of the reality shows RDF produces for them is Property Ladder, and it so happened that friends of ours wangled a slot on it (against my advice). The programme has an agreeable…
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Explaining journalistic failure
Journalists are very good at moralising about failure. Is the audience unable to appreciate quality journalism? There, there. Have journalists themselves failed the people? O Tempora, O Mores! In business, you would call these product-centred explanations, and they are the tail that wags the dog. Refreshing then, to see a growing media market where failure…
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Royal trailer trash
Stephen Lambert, the magnificently monikered Chief Creative Officer at TV production company RDF, is carrying the can for the Queen promo. Last Friday he offered to resign, but David Frank (the DF in RDF) is waiting for the BBC inquiry to run its course (or get going even). When not offering to resign, Lambert is…