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Dead journalists
I hadn’t come across this poem before from former foreign corrrespondent James Fenton. [HT: 3quarksdaily] It’s a tribute to dead journalists, but it doesn’t work for me. It reads like a cheap Auden pastiche. Perhaps there’s an appropriate irony there? I prefer Harry Evans’ valediction for David Blundy. Still, you might have a different view.…
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Contextual advertising
Becca Owen, 22, and Chloe Taylor, 19, died after being thrown from a packed car with an exhausted driver at the wheel as the vehicle plunged off a dark road into a remote ravine. A news story from the Guardian about the deaths of two young women on a gap-year in Mexico was interrupted by…
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Playing business politics with TV news
I own a few Sky shares so I wasn’t exactly thrilled when James Murdoch decided to buy a chunk of ITV. Still, the following announcement had me choking on my chips: Ofcom’s advice is that there are public interest issues, in relation to sufficient plurality of news provision for both cross media and television news…
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TV news "of the future"
Veteran blogger Dave Winer has turned his attention to the tv news of the future. I love thinking about the future, not least because growing up in the 1970s I thought we’d all be eating our food in capsule form and wearing strange halter-necked outfits. Dave could actually get what he wants by TIVOing the…