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Sky mistake over the news?
Sky aren’t usually naive, but they’ve lost a lot of potential good will trying to dump the RTS “news channel of the year” from Freeview and then running this ad to kick Virgin…
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Virgin Media Democracy
Once upon a time lefty academics used to write unreadable tomes about the problem of concentration of media power (Robert McChesney anyone?). Forget William Randolph Hearst and Max Beaverbrook. They were concerned. Now, at last they have allies in the world of corporate PR. Here’s Sir Richard Branson‘s larynx, Will Whitehorn (pictured left, smiling –…
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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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Local news – "daring to be different"
At the end of Barton Fink, John Turturro’s scriptwriter tells the studio boss: “I tried to show you something beautiful. Something about all of us.” So too did the people who bring you Meridian Tonight. This is their story. But first a reminder of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code. It says: 10.3 Products and services must not…