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TV News 101 – it’s the erosion, stupid
The tectonic plates are shifting. The NBC Nightly News, which has held the number one slot in U.S. network news for a decade, is being overhauled. A little history. Once CBS News had the lead with Walter Cronkite. Then Dan Rather took the CBS chair and kept the lead, but Rather couldn’t keep Cronkite’s audience…
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Linking not plagiarising…
I wrote a piece on attribution for Press Gazette that kicked off like this: The Times on Monday carried a story that appears to rely heavily on the work of a blogging journalist. It’s about the TV ‘phone con.’ Other papers too followed the story up. Nowhere is the journalist mentioned, referred or linked to.…
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Is there a media campaign against UKIP?
Let me make a confession. I have no sympathy for the political goals of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-of-centre British minority party, with a profoundly anti-European bent. When this week a UKIP supporter mentioned that there was a media campaign against his party – well, the words ‘paranoid’ and ‘delusional’ came popping into…
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Rush Limbaugh – normal inhumanity will be resumed later…
Rush Limbaugh once haunted a road trip I made across the States. By the time I got to New Orleans I was ready to throttle him. If you don’t know who he is, he’s a right-wing talk-radio host. Here’s what the good people at Media Matters say about him: Rush Limbaugh‘s nationally syndicated radio show…