Jun
18
2007
The 12 guiding principles in the BBC impartiality report, published in today’s Media Guardian. Here’s number 7:
Impartiality is no excuse for insipid programming. It allows room for fair-minded, evidence-based judgments by senior journalists and documentary makers, and for controversial, passionate and polemical arguments by contributors and writers.
Impartiality “allows room” for informed opinion? Surely […]
Jun
13
2007
ERWITT: ‘The exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev was really quite silly. Nixon was saying “We are rich and you are poor, we eat meat and you eat cabbage”. Khrushchev replied “Go screw my grandmother”‘.
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Jun
04
2007
Seadragon - an incredible visual viewing/modelling/networking app - from Microsoft. Very classy of BMW to leave their ad until after the presentation.
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May
24
2007
1. “Be in the right place at the right time” aka The Zapruder Rule. If you can stay on the right side of this rule you can ignore many of the others. However much TV photographers howl there is a compelling logic to the notion that for breaking news the quantity of camera crews […]