If you are really curious, have a short memory, or just wanna read something else…here are a few links to articles Dan has written for other publications.
Dan has recently written about the importance of EastEnders to the BBC in The Guardian — it’s the whole purpose of the BBC in the one show. There is a defence those icons of good taste, Nuts and Zoo, in The Independent. And a piece about whether Mark Thompson, the boss of the BBC, is giving the public what we want in The Mirror.
Dan also writes for the Radio Times, reviews papers on Sky News and LBC, and will work for anybody else that will have him.
Here’s a some stuff from The Times.
The Red Jeans Theory of Trends The Times
I made the mistake of buying some red jeans recently, reckoning they were overdue a come back. But they are not fashionable, and they ain’t coming back into fashion. That kind of error, though, is typical of the way too many people think: overvaluing a future possibility, undervaluing what is succesful now.
Free versus pay: nobody has a clue. The Times.
The free versus paid for media debate has been hot for the past six months. I’m totally unconvinced either side has a monopoly on the right answer. Actually, being fairly anti-theoretical (see the red jeans fallacy above), I tend to think nobody really has much of a clue when it comes to a succesful media business strategy. As somebody else once said, what matters is what works.
