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Suffolk murders 2
Adrian van Klaveren is tasked with defending the BBC’s decision to air the Tom Stephens interview. The criticism has come chiefly from lawyers, but I’ve already outlined my concerns about their decision. Here’s what he writes: …we took the decision to transmit the interview on the basis that there had been an exceptional change in…
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Suffolk murders
Suffolk police had been to Jubilee Close, where Tom Stephens lives, back on November 22. They searched his house till lunchtime. Nearly a month later, on December 17, the Sunday Mirror‘s Michael Duffy interviewed Stephens. Now Stephens has been arrested on suspicion of murdering five women. Stephens had a public profile on MySpace, revealing a…
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Johnston Press
You can see the Johnston Press‘s version of the future of local media in Peterborough or Halifax. And hey, there are tag clouds! And people do seem to be reading a lot of sport, despite sport being tabbed off the main page, as are readers’ contributions. Personally, I think a quick visit to Spokane‘s local…
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Informed democracies, national conversations and YOU
Informed democracy meet your new friend the national conversation. NBC News anchor Brian Williams has this to say in Time, à propos ‘YOU’ – the person of the year: The problem is that there’s a lot of information out there that citizens in an informed democracy need to know in our complicated world… Does it…