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Off topic: Tour de France
The Tour de France passes almost by my front door, and to celebrate, Southeastern Trains are telling any who wants to come down and watch – not to bring a bike…Could you make it up? Really?
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Alan Johnston: the final button
[From Bloggerheads via Lloyd Shepherd]
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Ofcom and the future of TV news
Writing in American journalism’s gilded age, Charles Dudley Warner offered this assessment of the worth of a newspaper: Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful…
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The future of UK TV news – a regulator writes
Here are Ofcom‘s discussion points from its Future of News paper (available in full here). Television news cannot be taken for granted on any commercial channel after digital switch-over, because revenues generated from advertising around news programmes do not appear to cover costs of production… …there are good reasons for existing commercial PSB channels to…