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First rule of terrorism?
Don’t go on the telly. ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert gives the back story to his interview with FBI informant Mohammed Junaid Babar. In 2001, it ran on my old show – five news (we couldn’t afford capital letters) – and was then picked up by CNN on syndication from ITN. That’s when someone from…
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Five News
Five news is ten years old, and I was there at the beginning. To anyone who doesn’t know why news anchors now stand up…well, we made it semi-respectable. Most of our innovations were the result of the tiny budget allowed for Britain’s fifth and final terrestrial channel. We had a young, multi-skilled newsroom, before digital…
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Five News
There are two types of commitments in life. Verbal commitments and financial commitments. When governments make verbal commitments what do we judge them by? The money they’re allocating to realise their dreams. When you’re negotiating what do you rely on? Promises or prices? Here’s a verbal commitment: Channel Five will offer viewers dedicated slots on…
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Don’t email Joel Stein
Not everything should be interactive … If Martin Luther put his 95 Theses on the wall and then all the townsfolk sent him their comments, and he had to write back to all of them and clarify what he meant, some of the theses would have gotten all watered down… The LA Times‘ Joel Stein…