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Liberal bias at the BBC
Finking out your colleagues takes guts. So who is the Bernie Goldberg of the BBC? Bernie, in case you don’t know, was a CBS News reporter who filed from the personal finance frontline. He found it convenient to take CBS’s money while all the time accumulating evidence of its liberal lies (this labour of love…
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Online video on UK news sites
Here’s a piece I wrote recently for the BBC‘s College of Journalism site. Andy Dickinson has some interesting – and more extensive – posts on the same topic. Approaching the Telegraph’s clean, attractive new website video jumps straight out at you and starts playing. It’s a couple of comedians. They’re having a laugh. On behalf…
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Publicly-funded journalism in the United States?
Yesterday, Wall Street wiz Steve Rattner used the unlikely platform of the Wall Street Journal to appeal for publicly-funded journalism in the United States: We could create a pool of money (possibly from a license fee similar to how the BBC is funded). News organizations with an expensive but important project in mind could apply…
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Why The Public Doesn’t Deserve The News
It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just…