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The McCann coverage, my two cents
Demonstrating, perhaps, my MBO (Master of the Bleeding Obvious*) skills, here are my recent contributions to coverage of the ongoing Madeleine McCann saga. From the Associated Press: And playing commentator tag in Time with Charlie Beckett: For earlier posts – from May – see here and here. *Basil Fawlty: Next contestant, Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from…
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From journalism to public information
Journalism has many bastard children: PR, marcomms, opinion polling. It’s not proud of them, and they return the favour. So how about a chip off the old block that journalism could be proud of? A new discipline that journalism could pat kindly on the head. I’m talking about something deeply unsexy – public information. Now…
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Afghanistan: not fit for America’s front page
Stella Artois beer is Belgian. In Belgium it is so cheap and plentiful, they could refill the canals of Bruges with its gaseous flows. In the UK, it’s marketed as an expensive and sophisticated Gallic brew – the kind of thing one might order to impress Emmanuelle Béart (showing my age there). It’s an old…
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18 Doughty Street in Time
Yours truly on IPTV 18 Doughty Street with Zoe Phillips. Time magazine did a piece on them this week. I’m pictured listening awestruck to a bloke from Devil’s Kitchen (a blog where “potty mouths meet potty politics”) – well, apparently he wasn’t impressed with me much either.