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Top talent salaries – how much would you pay to be on the BBC?
Talking to a telly presenter chum last night, we mused over the fact that you never hear broadcast execs bragging about how little they paid for talent. Instead, the sum handed over is somehow supposed to represent an “independent” estimation of worth. Don’t take the word of some hapless telly type reassuring you about X’s…
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Attack Andrew Gilligan and you attack journalism itself!
The former BBC reporter behind the Hutton Inquiry, Andrew Gilligan, was lecturing in Bristol recently [HT: Roy Greenslade]. Regular readers will know my thoughts on Gilligan. Gallingly, I share many of the concerns he articulates (I say “articulates” but you can judge for yourself here). I say “gallingly” because Gilligan frames those concerns as part…
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The new BBC homepage?
Apparently…
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Al Jazeera English: an email exchange
I wrote an anniversary review of Al Jazeera English recently, pointing out the dilemma of running a globally “progressive-minded” news channel on behalf of a despotic regime. Here is an email exchange with someone at Al Jazeera English in Doha, responding to that piece: …I am a tad disappointed with your recent Press Gazette article…