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The value of TV news
In case you hadn’t come across it, there’s a very good report [pdf] out from media consultancy Human Capital on the value of news for UK commercial Public Service Broadcasters (that’s ITV, Channel 4, and five), who all have to run news as part of the price of accessing the vanishing airwaves. In an act…
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My undercover SAS Glastonbury story
Many years ago, I was tasked with doing an undercover story on – wait for it, yawn – drug-taking at Glastonbury. Class A, of course. Anyway in the days of no mobile phone cover it meant yomping over acres, co-ordination via walkie-talkie. Much hassle. We were liaising with the local constabulary too, but our secret…
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Bring out the Branson
Screw It, Let’s Do It. Looks like James Murdoch has been taking ‘lessons in life’ from Richard Branson. Sir Richard, a minority shareholder in NTL, is unhappy because James has snuck in and bought a billion quid’s worth of ITV stock. Sir Rick’s anger has led him into the dangerous academic trap of asserting ‘strong’…