25 November 2008 – 2:53 pm
I can’t quite remember the exact line; nor can I even find the exact line.
Put ‘Oliver’ and ‘Let them eat..’ in a search box and it’s all Jamie this and Jamie that. Hopeless.
But I have it in my tiny little head that in ‘Oliver!’, there’s a line that goes something like that; that just as [...]
21 November 2008 – 5:56 pm
There were several points that stuck out like sore thumbs with regard to today’s decision by the BBC Trust to formally knock those dastardly local video plans on the head.
Many of which are covered here by the learned Professor…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2008/nov/21/bbc-theregions
And the subsequent comments.
What fascinates me is the role of the Tory party as the great champions [...]
17 November 2008 – 9:56 pm
I’ve no idea if this will ever see the light of day. It is, however, worth a ponder.
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2008/11/17/guardian-cities-local-sites-for-local-cityfolk/
Worth treating as tiny pebble and throwing into the shrinking pond that is the UK provincial newspaper industry and trying to imagine where the ripples might lead…
Clearly GMG have been happily working that Manchester beat for years. The [...]
17 November 2008 – 3:52 pm
Whether this counts might be something of a moot point given the content is all derived from underneath the same NewsCorporation umbrella…
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42461&c=1
But there we go… that’s the ‘link economy’ at work; that spares The Times from having to do too much of this TV station nonsense; they just link to their cousins at Sky – [...]
14 November 2008 – 8:53 pm
For no other reason than Jeff’s latest posting touches on exactly the debate we were having yesterday re who does what for whom in Barnsley…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=175#comments
… here we go with the view from Stateside; Jarvis’ thoughts on the painful birth of the US link economy…
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/11/14/the-birth-of-networks/
By all means, try and be all things to all men; be [...]
13 November 2008 – 11:27 am
Yesterday wasn’t a ‘good news’ day for Johnston Press; property advertising displaying a 50% fall, etc, etc…
And nor did today’s interim statement by Trinity Mirror offer much by way of good news, either.
Meanwhile, even DMGT were forced to reach for the red-marker pen and slash 300 jobs from their various London titles and operations.
If anyone [...]
12 November 2008 – 9:29 pm
For reasons that may well become apparent over the next couple of weeks, we’ve started to put a lot of thought and effort into this idea that the future of journalism might have something to do with the art of stimulating and sustaining a conversation.
We’ve been round this block before; as have others – we’ve [...]
10 November 2008 – 3:32 pm
Two different stories on the MediaGuardian website; two very different takes on this new media world of ours…
One is Alan Rusbridger’s thoughts ahead of the Society Of Editors gathering in Bristol today – an event that could have all the joyous trappings of a particularly miserable wake…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/10/newspapers-the-future-alan-rusbridger
The other is Jemima Kiss’ report on how one [...]
10 November 2008 – 12:20 am
There was clearly a very interesting discussion to be had at Jeff’s latest CUNY gathering; in particular, the one about starting from scratch…
‘So I proposed a problem to solve: What if a city, say Philadelphia, loses its paper tomorrow. What would you build in its place to serve the community? The group went to town. [...]