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NBC Nightly News
A big congrats to Alex Wallace who is new EP of the NBC Nightly News. She is the real deal…
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Learning the hard way – CBS Pres on Couric
Here is the ever-to-be-repeated lesson: “I think in some ways we owed it to the industry to try new things,” said Sean McManus, president of CBS News. “But we found at 6:30 with only 22 minutes of programming time, people basically want you to tell them what happened in the world that day . .…
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UK vs US news media
On the media difference between Britain and America, from a former Brit who swapped the UK for Chicago. It has the ring of truth! The British are drowned in world news and current affairs like an oozing puss of global pain and suffering. It is almost as if the evening family meal can’t be served…
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Cash for honours
The injunction against the BBC has inspired all kinds of fevered speculation. This is the point where I sadly admit to not particularly caring about the story. Sure it’s a good Westminster yarn. Certainly it would have been a nice coup for Nick Robinson. But why exactly did the Attorney-General slap an injunction on the…