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Decline of the sitcom mirrors decline of newspapers
My contention that the decline of newspapers is nothing fundamentally to do with the journalism gets some anecdotal support (by analogy) from British comedian Ben Elton, lamenting the decline of the sitcom: Elton also talked about the decline of traditional sitcoms that could be enjoyed by mass audiences. “I don’t think it’s the fault of…
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When can you use off the record quotes?
My two penn’orth on Samantha Power from the Guardian: For me as a broadcast journalist, the camera and the microphone are the record. You can’t unsay things to a recording device or speaking live, only apologise or cringe. But in conversation, different standards apply. I was at ITN in the early 1990s when John Major…