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Let’s give up on British English online
The first four years of my working life were spent with a US TV network. My language began unraveling (US), or unravelling (UK). My estuary drawl was peppered with the argot so memorably deployed by Alicia Silverstone in Clueless.* British friends laughed – at me, rather than with me. Then a spell at ITN made…
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From journalism to public information
Journalism has many bastard children: PR, marcomms, opinion polling. It’s not proud of them, and they return the favour. So how about a chip off the old block that journalism could be proud of? A new discipline that journalism could pat kindly on the head. I’m talking about something deeply unsexy – public information. Now…
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RSS problems
Thanks to issues with RSS 2.0 and Feedburner I’ve had to switch to Atom. If you’re subscribing via RSS then – ironically – you won’t get this post.
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The Wall Street Journal should read its own history
An owner “most properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposition.” WSJ, 1925Anyone considering the absurd talk of editorial strictures being put around the Wall Street Journal prior to its possible purchase by Rupert Murdoch might want to look into the Journal’s own archives. Back in January 1925 it published an op-ed titled, “A…