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Cake monkey
The Guardian‘s Media Monkey was equally unimpressed with Jon Manel‘s cake activity: With the judging process about to begin for this year’s Sony awards, Monkey’s attention turns to Today reporter Jon Manel’s effort last week, in which he illustrated a piece about the NHS budgetary “cake” … with a cake. In Manel’s defence, he has…
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Let them hear cake…
Jon Manel tackles ten years of the NHS on Today this week. He enlivened an interview with John Appleby from the King’s Fund by the use of a real BBC cake (‘how do you slice up the NHS cake?’), a simple visual gag ironically re-worked for radio. Unfortunately the fondant fancy of crassness collided with…
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Greg Dyke on Today
The current external handicaps faced by the organisation in respect of Charter Review would be greatly relieved in the wake of Greg’s departure.Obviously no-one on the Today programme has read Greg Dyke‘s Inside Story. The intro for the Dyke interview today, going over the minutes from the Governors’ meetings (which the BBC had sought to…
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Today and polls
If, when the people, being furnished with adequate information, held its deliberations, the citizens had no communication one with another, the grand total of the small differences would always give the general will, and the decision would always be good. But when factions arise … it may then be said that there are no longer…