Category: Mainstream Media
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You can’t take democracy for granted
Living in a democracy is something just about everyone in Europe, North America and a large majority of countries around the world take for granted. Basic freedoms – of speech and political expression, to name but two – are things you don’t…
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Project Red Stripe: A Model-T Ford in any colour as long as it’s smokin’
An interesting idea from The Economist – Project Red Stripe: Project Red Stripe is a six-member team comprised of The Economist Group’s employees that has been brought together with the task of creating an innovative and web-based product, service or…
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The Telegraph’s continuing re-invention
Get your daily business TV news update from your newspaper, not the TV. The newspaper’s website, that is. BrandRepublic reports on moves by the Telegraph Media Group to extend into the broadcasting business: [… Telegraph Media Group] has created a…
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All change for Reader’s Digest
News yesterday that a publishing house – almost an institution – is being sold to an investor group for $2.4 billion. Reuters reports that the Reader’s Digest Association is being acquired by buyout firm Ripplewood Holdings who leads the investor…
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Al Jazeera launches in English
Arab TV network Al Jazeera launched an English-language service yesterday that, inevitably, attracted criticisms in the US and elsewhere where some see the station purely as a mouthpiece for Osama Bin Laden. The station has consistently denied any such linkage,…