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Facing the future
I met John Naughton the other day. Not looking as raffish as the picture on the left, taken from his blog. He was at last week’s Society of Editors gathering and made a speech lambasting editors and reporters for not using Skype or BitTorrent. [Observer] Having friends in Sydney and an interest in the Larry…
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Dan Rather Reports
Ever wanted to hear these words? “Ratings don’t matter, demos don’t matter. You’re working for a channel I own and operate by myself. We don’t have to be concerned about stockholder value, entanglements of large global corporations or their regulatory needs in Washington.” That wasn’t a dream. That’s what Internet billionaire Mark Cuban told ex-CBS…
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Public interest in the BNP
The British National Party‘s Nick Griffin and Mark Collett give the stuff that lingers round the bath tub rim a bad name. Their previous thoughts are a matter of record. Here’s a little selection from The Times. And yet party leader Griffin also tries to claim that the BNP is removed from such transparently evil…
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Jeremy Vine
Jeremy Vine is to be the new face of the prime-time Panorama, soon to be available as a compact. [MG] Vine has reinvented himself pretty successfully on Radio 2. Hours of daily vocal exercise have relaxed the clipped Paxman-esque diction that plagued Vine’s TV persona, and – in the un-Paxman-esque enthusiasm – you can detect…