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MI6 and Sean Langan
Some interesting details – if true – in the Sunday Times on the UK intelligence service and Sean Langan‘s disappearance.
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Off topic: Voting on TV – a basic problem
Channel 4’s Grand Designs Live, is built around asking viewers to vote on three properties. Here is the problem: the first property featured has a massive advantage over the last property in terms of motivating people to vote. [Updated] Two three four nights out of three four five, the first property featured has won… Can…
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Public service broadcasting 101 (Give us the cash or Gordon Ramsay replaces Jon Snow)
I haven’t put pen to paper on the Ofcom PSB review. The review is thorough but transparent, the best take on it is from Ofcomwatch – I’ve added a link to a pdf of Stigler’s seminal article. Nobel winner George Stigler famously observed [pdf] that firms often acquire policy or regulation so as to serve…
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Impartiality – Ofcom retreats from a Fox News future
Remember these headlines? TV news ‘a turn-off for young and ethnic minorities’: Ofcom says solution could be to axe impartiality rules: BBC fears lost generation as audiences dwindle – The Guardian Ofcom may give all-clear for politically biased news – The Times US-style TV news to pull in younger viewers – The Evening Standard Yes.…