Tag Archives: Lord Carter

The only people who will save journalism are journalists themselves; this nation’s politicians are too busy saving their own skins to worry about ours…

14 June 2009 – 10:11 pm

This is a path that we’ve trod before… the trick, for me at least, is to sense the tone…
http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/534752.php
“What the problem needs above all is some innovative, quick thinking on behalf of government,” were the words of Bob Satchwell, of the Society Of Editors. His impatience, you suspect, not helped by the game of musical [...]

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Not for the first time we walk into this revolution with the thoughts of Mr Shirky in one hand, an Apple iPhone in the other. It’s 1500 all over again…

14 March 2009 – 1:11 pm

OutWithABang celebrates its first birthday on Monday; we threw our very first pebble into this deep and dark pond of ours on March 16th, 2008 – two nights after me, Paul and Tim all heard we’d been bombed in the Knight News Challenge. Beaten by some bloke called Berners-Lee.
I mean, for f*ck’s sake, what did [...]

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The comings and goings of them Whitehall media folk make for right pretty viewing. Being as we’re all so blind, stupid and dumb…

4 March 2009 – 4:22 pm

Clearly it’s none of our business what our local media masters have in store for us. Such high matters of state are not for us to worry about.
We, who were once their audience, remain blind, stupid and dumb to all such goings-on; tis not for us to question when, how and what local news is [...]

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Big government sees big media as the only people with a ‘credible’ answer to their PSB needs. Well, that’s the future in safe hands then…

18 February 2009 – 12:35 pm

We’ve kind of touched on this before; or rather Ms Kiss did… that in amidst all the hand-wringing and quizzical ‘Er, what next…?’ looks that accompanied Lord Carter’s first stab at a vision for ‘Digital Britain’, there was barely a mention for anyone on the independent start-up scene.
Us VIPs, weren’t even a blip on their [...]

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What if this forest fire is raging with such a ferocity that the next time Lord Carter blinks, the Sheffield Star is gone?

1 February 2009 – 4:43 pm

There were a couple of pieces that rolled into one, bigger thought over the weekend; that and a big, warm, over-due welcome for the first honorary bird on our blogroll, Jemima Kiss…
… who banged a couple of large nails on the head on the back of Lord Carter’s first draft of his ‘Digital Britain’ thing [...]

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What did our very first VIP Club meeting do last night? Well, perhaps, it started to answer the question that Lord Carter has yet to find…

29 January 2009 – 3:59 pm

The much-trailed ‘Digital Britain’ report thumps on everyone’s desk tomorrow and from the snippets that are already emerging it looks like the Government have decided that the future of local news provision lies in the hands of TrinityMirror, Newsquest, Johnston, etc…
Cos it ain’t going to be ITV. And it can’t only be the BBC. But [...]

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