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Power and TV
The BBC’s surprise that someone from Al Jazeera English would not be routinely attending Downing Street press briefings is charming. Al Jazeera’s argument is that it won’t be concentrating on the powerful. [Indy] But first here’s the Beeb’s Richard Porter on November 15th: …we don’t aim to cover British news – unless it has some…
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Al Jazeera English – online unpleasantness
As if to demonstrate the fact that freedom of communication can also mean freedom to bitch mercilessly, someone drew my attention to a forum on Al Jazeera, called (surprisingly when you come to read it) – Friends of Al Jazeera. It features a poster called haroldlloyd who seems to be surfing a wave of Angosturan…
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Does she mean us?
Here’s Deborah Howell, the Washington Post‘s ombudsman: Journalism tends to draw to its ranks those who are idealistic, who want to right society’s ills and who look upon their work as a calling. They look at journalism less as a job with a business than as a calling to public service, which can put them…
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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.