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BBC business coverage review
The Budd report on the impartiality of the BBC‘s coverage of business is here. Released on the Friday before a public holiday it clears the Beeb of systematic bias (well, most big organizations have trouble doing anything systematically), but has some interesting sidebars regarding campaigning on behalf of consumers and the importance of cosying up…
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Top Google News UK online sources
So the LA Times wins out over This is London. Monsters and Critics and Playfuls also make the top twenty. These are the top UK sources on Google News as crunched by Henk van Ess. You can get reports on ten countries. I wouldn’t mind knowing quite how the methodology works…
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Madeleine McCann: rite and wrong
As the Madeleine McCann story endured, I spoke to reporters who said: “If she was black, or poor, or…” and gave that slightly embarrassed look that journalists give one another on stories like this, hoping for an acknowledgement. There’s not much to inform, educate or entertain about child abduction. And this isn’t just a case…
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This evening
Telegraph debate tonight in St Bride’s on 50 years of Fleet Street. Best lines? Emily Bell: The BBC now publishes the biggest newspaper in the world. Will Lewis: The newspaper groups that are going to prosper are those that get over themselves…