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Playing business politics with TV news
I own a few Sky shares so I wasn’t exactly thrilled when James Murdoch decided to buy a chunk of ITV. Still, the following announcement had me choking on my chips: Ofcom’s advice is that there are public interest issues, in relation to sufficient plurality of news provision for both cross media and television news…
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Euro news
A friend of mine used to have the unenviable job of running Euronews, back in the days when it was owned by ITN. Basically, it’s a Eurovision feed with a voice track in umpteen different languages. A simple premise, and effective – like hitting someone over the head with a plank, instead of running them…