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BBC reports on Alexander Litvinenko
A tale of two journalisms. First there’s Julian O’Halloran‘s excellent report for BBC Radio 4 on File on 4. Then there’s John Sweeney‘s half hour on Panorama – introduced by Jeremy Vine as “Russian poison in a very British cuppa” – yes, you couldn’t hear the question mark…
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Cake monkey
The Guardian‘s Media Monkey was equally unimpressed with Jon Manel‘s cake activity: With the judging process about to begin for this year’s Sony awards, Monkey’s attention turns to Today reporter Jon Manel’s effort last week, in which he illustrated a piece about the NHS budgetary “cake” … with a cake. In Manel’s defence, he has…
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Jeremy Bowen
Stephen Pollard’s attack on Jeremy Bowen has gained some new supporters, according to the Jerusalem Post. Andrew Balcombe, chairman of the Zionist Federation of Britain and Ireland, has written to the chair of the BBC Trust, Dr Chitra Bharucha, following a leaked e-mail Bowen sent last month that questions Bowen’s impartiality as he appears to…
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A good Panorama from Shelley Jofre, revisiting past successes, before another Tonight special next week – Should We Fight Back? (Clue – they’re not talking about current affair viewers or ITV copyright lawyers). Should the Beeb have destroyed the Panorama brand? With new staffers from Tonight they have created a popular copy of er ……