30 December 2009 – 6:20 pm
‘In 1649
To St George’s Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Come to show the people’s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the law
They were the dispossessed
Reclaiming what was theirs
‘We come in peace’ they said
‘To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common
And to make the waste land grow
This earth divided
We will make whole
So it [...]
14 October 2009 – 11:01 am
It’s been a while. Apologies. Had jobs to do; people to see.
Suffice to say that last week was ‘one for the album’; but for the likes of ‘Mr Darcy’, AJ, Yvonne, Jas and everyone else on the ITU Dept at the N&N the Old Dear wouldn’t be propping herself up in bed this morning, reading [...]
In amidst the general pantomime of my life, consciously or not this blog has ended up taking something of a back-seat over the last two weeks.
In part, there’s a lot going on. Tis the start of a new football season for www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity and www.addiply.com continues to take us all on some interesting, if time-consuming paths.
But [...]
2 February 2009 – 8:18 pm
Yesterday we posed a question as to whether this forest fire of our worst imaginings was actually raging with such an intensity that it could all be over before Lord Carter has barely begun…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=235
The comment that follows is well worth a read; the analogy is wonderful as it is pointed from NC…
‘I see the newspaper [...]
The temptation on the back of Tim Bowdler’s teasing little remarks about possible merger deals afoot in the regional Press industry – hence the talk of easing the rules of media ownership; hence Pete Kirwan’s take in MediaMoney… http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2009/01/05/bowdler-hints-at-mega-deals-and-relaxation-of-regional-ownership-rules/
… is to ponder where that all might lead.
For the life of me I don’t see JP [...]
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 [...]
4 November 2008 – 6:38 pm
Here we go again… round the same block… this time it’s Carolyn McCall from GMG and Sly Bailey from Trinity giving anything in a BBC blazer a good kicking… this time in front of another select committee…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/04/bbc-pressandpublishing
Without repeating ourselves over and over again, McCall’s ‘get off our lawn…’ speech was interesting.
Because she’s quite right; in [...]
7 October 2008 – 10:16 pm
Clearly, I’m in no position whatsoever to comment on how the ‘boogey man’ of the provincial newspaper industry – the BBC’s plans for greater, local video news coverage; http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=97 – is going to be hit, or not, by today’s announcement from the BBC.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/07/bbc.television
The original Press release, you strongly suspect, would have been a master-class in, [...]
2 October 2008 – 12:52 pm
We’ve been round the block with the NUJ before. And I’m under few illusions as to the monumental challenges it faces in trying to protect the interests of its members – one of whom is my Mrs.
But at some stage it has to acknowledge that there are forces at work here that are wholly beyond [...]
Give the walk we walk and the talk we try to talk, it would be wholly remiss not to give Lord Fowler’s epic work a mention.
The House of Lords’ report on ‘The Ownership Of The News’, Vol 1, is clearly a worthy document and for those of you with a couple of hours to spare, [...]