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Tag: BBC

  • Rush Limbaugh – normal inhumanity will be resumed later…

    Rush Limbaugh once haunted a road trip I made across the States. By the time I got to New Orleans I was ready to throttle him. If you don’t know who he is, he’s a right-wing talk-radio host. Here’s what the good people at Media Matters say about him: Rush Limbaugh‘s nationally syndicated radio show…

  • Martha Kearney is the new voice on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, or WATO as the BBC calls it in true public school style. Martha is married to my ex-boss, and she also happens to be one of the BBC’s great broadcasters, intelligent and empathetic. Good luck to her.

  • Sound and vision online

    The Monocle website has an interesting stab at combining audio and stills here. Audio of writer Fiona Wilson discussing her piece runs over stills. Problem – it’s not as good as a piece from an equivalent audio offering like the BBC‘s From Our Own Correspondent, and crucially it doesn’t sell in the piece. After hearing…

  • Royal Television Society Journalism awards

    So the Royal Television Society‘s journalism awards… Strange things journalism awards ceremonies. Last year’s winner might struggle to make this year’s shortlist. Journalists work so much in the ‘now’ that any review is a vaguely uncomfortable reminder of tragedy, hubris or injustice. Still, the RTS is a real peer review process, as they say in…