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Today and Jonathan Aitken
Tuesday’s end of show disco on Today debated issues arising out of the SFO investigations into allegations that BAE paid bribes to senior Saudi officials (BTW see Marcel Berlins‘ excellent commentary). One of the two interviewees was Jonathan Aitken. He was introduced as a former Conservative defence minister and businessman who “famously came unstuck.” The…
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Lost in translation
I was extremely proud of the little Google translate buttons below my blog. Previous experience had told me they offered only an erratic version of what was on the page, but in an effort to put them to the test I got a friend to press the button. Take my previous post on News Sponsorship:…
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News sponsorship
Avid blog readers will recall mention of an NBC experiment to allow longer news pieces on their nightly newscast as part of a sponsorship deal with Philips. Viewer responses can be found right here. My favourite? In all my years of newscast viewing I have never been so pleased and inspired to tune in as…
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Ultra-local news
Frank Ahrens from the WaPo blogs on his Future of Newspapering piece, profiling Gannett‘s operation in Fort Myers. The hero of Ahrens’ piece is Chuck Myron, and after the hype, I thought it might be instructive to see some of the stuff Chuck is – well – chucking out… Sisters come from Maine to watch…