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Financial journalism
According to Harvard Business School professor Greg Miller, financial journalists uncover nearly a third of major accounting scandals. He presents this as positive evidence of the business media’s ‘watchdog’ role. In the course of an interview with Harvard’s Working Knowledge he also passes on this nugget: There’s always going to be someone in the press…
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Backbiting
I love a good journalism spat as much as the next gawping bystander. Here’s one in the Israeli media featuring columnist Nahum Barnea. It takes a while to get into its stride, but this is how it ends: Much can be said about journalism: about its shallowness, about the fact that it often provides free…
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A good Panorama from Shelley Jofre, revisiting past successes, before another Tonight special next week – Should We Fight Back? (Clue – they’re not talking about current affair viewers or ITV copyright lawyers). Should the Beeb have destroyed the Panorama brand? With new staffers from Tonight they have created a popular copy of er ……
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Let them hear cake…
Jon Manel tackles ten years of the NHS on Today this week. He enlivened an interview with John Appleby from the King’s Fund by the use of a real BBC cake (‘how do you slice up the NHS cake?’), a simple visual gag ironically re-worked for radio. Unfortunately the fondant fancy of crassness collided with…