Posts Tagged ‘ Press ’

Real newspaper sales for all the nationals. Watch out this is a real stat-fest. Don't like figures, don't apply.
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Paul Dacre made an entertaining speech a couple of years ago, nicely making a common enemy of both the BBC and heavyweight, loss making newspapers. He said that both were dependent on subsidy, whether from the licence fee, profits made elsewhere in a conglomerate or from a rich proprietor. Since then, the BBC has...
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In Apple, we trust. Today, Apple launches its iSlate or whatever its tablet computer is going to be called. Interestingly, or arrogantly, there is no UK relay of the US launch, suggesting, perhaps, that the device won’t initially be on sale here. None of that matters though. All we seem to need from Apple...
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Hmm…if I was Rod Liddle, I wouldn’t like Google News’s approach. Type in his name, and an inflammatory quote comes up in a nice blue box for everybody to violently agree or disagree with. See it  here. Liddle was on 5 Live on Kate Silverton’s show this morning (listen here), answering questions about his...
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Rod Liddle’s candidacy to edit The Independent ought to be over. The extraordinary row about his inflammatory postings on the Millwall website should be enough to make Alexander Lebedev, the Indy’s wannabe new owner think. For those who missed it, he wrote, as reported in the Mail on Sunday: “Why do blacks need a...
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