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Insider cartoons
From Danny Sanchez at Journalistopia.
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Alan Johnston: Bret Stephens vs the BBC
Fran Unsworth, head of newsgathering at the BBC, takes issue with Bret Stephens. She calls his piece on Alan Johnston for the Wall Street Journal “scurrilous.” I disagree. I think snide is a better word. And it’s shorter. First, let me put the piece in context. Stephens is an anglophobe and his attack on the…
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Goldsmith on the contempt laws
In 1996, the Judge Richard T. Matsch took the decision to move America’s biggest domestic terrorist trial from Oklahoma to Colorado. Newspaper and television stories about Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had been so pervasive inside Oklahoma that “they have been demonized,” the judge wrote. “There is so great a prejudice against these two defendants…
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Tagged
By Charlotte for seven random facts about myself, I respectfully refer her to my previous five facts entry, and supply these two: One and only child TV acting role with Eric Morecambe. Photographed, aged 3, with Rolf Harris.