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Today and Jonathan Aitken
Tuesday’s end of show disco on Today debated issues arising out of the SFO investigations into allegations that BAE paid bribes to senior Saudi officials (BTW see Marcel Berlins‘ excellent commentary). One of the two interviewees was Jonathan Aitken. He was introduced as a former Conservative defence minister and businessman who “famously came unstuck.” The…
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Sunday guest booking
Stoke Newington GP, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, was on 5 Live this morning responding to the Government’s plan to survey 5 million patients. [BBC] Now I know it’s hard to get guests at 8am on a Sunday morning, especially about something quite so exciting. But booking someone like Fitzpatrick, and then introducing him as just another…
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EasyJet and Today 2
The Evening Standard ran a short par on the post on EasyJet and Today. My ‘journalism’ point is that CEOs now have huge resources to devote to preparing interviews on company results and communications – writers, trainers etc. Journalists don’t.
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EasyJet and Today
Had to blog Greg Wood‘s interview with the CEO of low-cost airline EasyJet on Today this morning. Harrison PRed mercilessly for EasyJet. You can listen to him here. It was obvious Greg had spent much less time and money preparing for the interview than Harrison. There’s an asymmetric war going on, as our military pals…