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BBC vs Authority
In the Independent, in a piece that is part-op-ed, part reportage, Tim Luckhurst questions the BBC‘s cautious reaction to its cash-for-honours story. A couple of interesting questions arise: Defending the corporation on Radio 4’s Today programme last week, the deputy director-general, Mark Byford, said any notion the BBC was “sitting back” was “absolutely untrue.” It…
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"Balancing" climate change
The other night on UK television’s Channel 4 Richard Lindzen presented a programme called The Great Climate Change Swindle. [See Martin Moore] Lindzen dissents vocally from the scientific consensus, in arguing that climate change is not man made. But Lindzen goes beyond just dissent in his views on policy. Here’s part of liberal academic blogger…
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Online news and advertising…
Depressing news (not that we didn’t know it) from our friends in the VC business: To get to $50m in revenue you would need 50 billion pageviews in a year, or just over 4 billion per month. The BBC gets a billion pageviews a month. On the figures above, that would bring in about $12.5m…
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Question Time: Mentorn wins furniture contract
People often ask me – What do I have to do to win a current affairs commission? My answer is always simple and direct: build portable seating. The offer to construct portable seating was also understood to have impressed BBC executives considering bids from Mentorn and three other shortlisted independent production companies. [MG] Now if…