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Ofcom and impartiality
UK broadcast regulator Ofcom consults (= “lets people vent”) today on impartiality and news. The event’s at Reuters HQ in Canary Wharf. I’ll be going along. These events usually have an agenda, and this one appears to be an attempt to get out of regulating on traditional impartiality grounds all the TV news channels that…
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Fox News Porn
You have probably come across Robert Greenwald, the man behind Outfoxed. He has a new campaign against Fox News called Fox News Porn, and his YouTube film is below. Fox News would doubtless argue that “celebrating heterosexuality” and casting a prurient eye over sex videos were in complete accord with its conservative values. What Greenwald’s…
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Review: Al Jazeera English – one year on
Here’s a piece I wrote for Press Gazette on Al Jazeera English, one year on. In the gardens of Versailles you can visit a charming monument to France’s conservative, construction-crazed 18th-century monarchy. It’s the Petit Hameau, an idealised village built at the whim of Marie Antoinette as a way of “connecting” with the great unwashed.…
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The anonymous Royal
Search Google News for “royal” and “cocaine,” or subscribe to a site like RADAR, and barring some miracle you will discover the identity of the member of the royal family that no British media outlet is allowed to report, but which you could also have heard on Fox News (Sky Channel 510 – m’lud). This…