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The Campbell diaries
I’ve never been run over by a pedestrian, but Alastair Campbell did the next best thing striding down the narrow atrium walk towards the studios of Channel 4 News. He was about to berate Jon Snow. Personally, I think he made Tony Blair a lousy press secretary, but a very good counsellor. I don’t know…
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Trust in the media
In 1972 the Roper Centre for Public Opinion Research in the United States began asking: In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the news media – such as newspapers, T.V. (television), and radio – when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and fairly – a great deal, a fair…
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The authentic voice of bloggers…
From BBC NEWS Technology page… From Emily Turrettini’s blog… The authentic voice of Variety!
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Rupert Murdoch: a lesson from history?
Press Gazette picks up on the media side of Tony Blair’s former comms chief, Alastair Campbell’s diaries. One of the more interesting revelations concerns the impact of Rupert Murdoch on his editors. July 1995 [Meeting Rupert Murdoch and addressing News Corp editors in Sydney] “I got a fascinating glimpse of the way editors work around…