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More Horrocks
Here’s the free link to Peter Horrock‘s Oxford talk. Don’t thank me, thank the licence fee. Actually I did Horrocks a dis-service in my earlier post. What his talk was really about was justifying immense licence fee expenditure in terms of television news. It’s ironic he blogged his speech, because one of his observations is…
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Iraq
To an event on academic freedom in Iraq. An Iraqi psychiatrist gives a heartrending account of the deaths of colleagues and their families and kids. We have several Iraqi students. One of our doctoral candidates made this film for Britain’s Channel 4. You can see a clip here.
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The undeserved and the under-served…
According to Broadcast, BBC News boss Peter Horrocks (seen left, smiling – unnervingly) is calling for: “radical” overhaul of the traditional notions of impartiality and believes the corporation should be seeking more interviews with organisations such as the Taliban and the BNP. Why not just organize a debate between them in southern Afghanistan and supply…
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Grade news at 10.30pm
Melvyn Bragg rather outshone and outluvvied ITV News business editor Mark Eddo at 10.30pm. Eddo didn’t mention the line from Grade about looking at the news: I think news is very very important for a big network. And it is very interesting that in the competitive situation in America, although they’ve cut back the investment…