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Andrew Keen: cult of the contrarian
Martin Stabe must be on performance enhancing drugs – his posting levels are through the roof. It’s all good stuff, especially on the Richard Sambrook vs. Andrew Keen showdown at the Frontline. Keen’s new media vs. old media gamble is that infamy as the blogosphere’s contrarian punchbag will help sell his book. (Jeff Jarvis memorably…
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Talking politics 2
A brief review of my efforts on Talking Politics from David Preiser at Biased BBC. And it’s a case of “you can’t please all of the people…” I found the defenders of the BBC to be – as expected – quite defensive. Prof. Monck clearly lives in the same ivory tower as Director Helen Boaden,…
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Talking politics
Doing a turn on BBC Radio 4’s Talking Politics this morning with Robin Aitken and David Cox on partiality, impartiality and the BBC.
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Death on TV: collaboration, complicity or collusion?
The tea-cup sized trust storm enveloping Paul Watson and his documentary, Malcolm & Barbara: Love’s farewell, continues to brew. He was on the Today programme, Barbara Pointon talked to BBC News. (I chipped in briefly on News 24.) Watson’s film was made at the invitation of Mrs Pointon (husband Malcolm being unable to grant or…