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Unrequired Reading {28.10.08 to 29.10.08}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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Andrew Sachs and two faces of the BBC
For anyone who is angry with the BBC for allowing two radio presenters to bully and humiliate an elderly man, 78-year old actor Andrew Sachs, listen to this programme.
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Unrequired Reading {27.10.08 to 28.10.08}
These are some of the things that have caught my attention lately. It’s a more eclectic mix than just the news business, but then so’s life:
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On journalism, religion and relative decline
It was a favourite saying in the nineteenth century, and early twentieth, that the press had replaced the pulpit. As one young writer put it in the 1930s: Journalism in fact fulfilled one of the functions of a church. Writers of the time frequently referred to this aspect of it, and according to their biographies…