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TV News – who gives a Ross?
In television, I think we should start talking about the cost of what we do in Rosses – Jonathan Rosses. Just to refresh your memory, Jonathan takes home/homes about six million quid a year. So ITV News costs £35 million, that’s a six Ross deal. Channel 4 News is about £20 million, just over three…
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Al Jaz English vs. Al Jaz
Interesting reaction to AJE from Jamal Dajani: The new channel’s editorial policy seems more restrained. When a 70-year-old resident died of his wounds after being hit in an Israeli attack on Gaza, the Arabic Al Jazeera reported that he was ‘martyred.’ At Al Jazeera English, however, he was simply ‘killed.’ Another major difference is the…
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Bring out the Branson
Screw It, Let’s Do It. Looks like James Murdoch has been taking ‘lessons in life’ from Richard Branson. Sir Richard, a minority shareholder in NTL, is unhappy because James has snuck in and bought a billion quid’s worth of ITV stock. Sir Rick’s anger has led him into the dangerous academic trap of asserting ‘strong’…
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Reuters Institute launch 2
No sign yet of a language guide to go alongside the ethics statement at Al Jazeera. But, searching their archive of print stories online, they have reported a suicide bombing at Netanya in Israel as a bomber has blown himself up – which to me implies incompetence rather than intentionality. In the same report they…