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Full story: Gordon Brown’s first step
I watched a good 40 minutes of Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, broadcast live on BBC News. If you read the speech, I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty good as far as political speeches go, which are clearly designed as much for interpretive reporting by the […]
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Full story: Have your say in the US election
A neat idea from The Economist concerning the forthcoming US presidential election: The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world’s countries (including the United States) a say in the election’s outcome. As in America, each country has been allocated a minimum of three electoral-college votes with extra votes allocated […]
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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #382: September 22, 2008
Content summary: FIR Live recording posted; FIR listener contest announced: win free tickets to 2 conferences; follow-up: Metrolink train crash and crisis communication; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; discussion: new research from Universal McCann on how the internet turned us all into influencers; News That Fits – making the case for General Motors, why […]