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Dan Chambers
When Channel 5 News launched nearly ten years ago, some of the turgid independent films we were obliged to air were produced by a company that spent so little money on them we feared they were filmed, directed and produced by the researcher. Turns out they were. Step forward budget TV boy, Dan Chambers. Making…
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Changing times
Which subscription-based media group is hiring, hiring, hiring? Expanding rapidly across the globe at a time when competitors are laying off and lying low? The answer of course is Bloomberg, and when your 235,000 subscribers are some of the wealthiest individuals and institutions in the world you can afford to be ambitious. Wandering round its…
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The professional shame of journalism
Currently re-reading Primo Levi’s account of his experience of Auschwitz, The Drowned And The Saved. The pages have yellowed since I first read it back in 1987, the year Levi killed himself . We’re not good at reading books by victims. We seem to prefer protagonists, be they vain, wicked or shameless. In the chapter…
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Betrayed? – some thoughts
Please see an earlier post for discussion of the problems with the MoD’s approach. The title Betrayed? An Investigation comes from a soldier interviewed by ITV News reporter Emma Murphy. Emma’s package features an extended interview with an unidentified wounded soldier. The two quotes from the soldier (reproduced on the ITV News website) explain that…