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Fudge
Does James Murdoch write his own speeches? I only ask because his recent laudable articulation of free market principles and consumer choice in broadcasting contained this little nugget, or nougat: Perhaps it is not a coincidence that the BBC has managed so far to escape any meaningful oversight by concocting, as governance, fudge that Thornton’s…
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Fox hunting
Entertaining post at Media Matters, picking up on Fox News host, Bill O’Reilly. During a discussion with a Fox News military analyst on his radio show, O’Reilly got a little carried away: I hate to blow my own horn, Colonel, but … on the night that Saddam’s statue fell … I said on the air,…
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Al Jazeera English – a US view from Cairo
Check out Larry Pintak‘s excellent commentary on AJE.
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More Horrocks
Here’s the free link to Peter Horrock‘s Oxford talk. Don’t thank me, thank the licence fee. Actually I did Horrocks a dis-service in my earlier post. What his talk was really about was justifying immense licence fee expenditure in terms of television news. It’s ironic he blogged his speech, because one of his observations is…