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Jonathan Ross for a year – £5.6m
Anne Robinson for a year – £3m
Graham Norton for a year – £2.5m
Jeremy Clarkson for a year – £1.8m
BBC’s talent bill for a year – £229m
BBC Asian Network for a year – £12.1m
BBC 6 Music for a year – £9m
Finding new talent, serving non-mainstream interests and closing a gateway [...]
I have nothing but sympathy for Jacqui Janes. I can’t begin to imagine what she’s going through. No parent should have to bury their child, but it must be near-unendurable to wonder whether more could have been done to save Jamie Janes’ life.
I’d love to know if the Sun has passed money to Mrs Janes. [...]
A little while back, I wrote a piece arguing for a ‘Guardian London’ supplement to the Guardian, similar to Guardian America or Comment is Free, both here and at Liberal Conspiracy.
Whether or not the Guardian read, let alone paid any attention to, my thoughts, I am very glad to see this:
Guardian Local planned to launch [...]
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Daily Show Full Episodes
Political Humor
Healthcare Protests
H/T YouTuber HowTheWorldWorks.
xD.
The headline on the front page of the new, positive London Evening Standard reads
10 troops died and ‘only 150 Afghans voted’
Note the quotation marks. What’s inside them is never referenced to anyone.
The ’story’ is that only 150 people voted in Babaji. A second story is that ten British soldiers died in Operation Panther’s Claw. The [...]
No, really. The Daily Mail is criticising the government for (apparently) considering implementing means testing free bus passes for over-60s because of the cost and, more particularly, the way the cost falls on local authorities. It would seem that, by arguing for universal provision rather than means testing, they are criticising the government for being, [...]
Neil Williams (blog, Twitter) has drafted a template strategy for Government departments wanting to use Twitter; find it on the Cabinet Office’s Digital Engagement Blog or on Neil’s website as a PDF. It’s a good document – you have to bear in mind that this is for civil servants – and could be a good [...]
The Central Office of Information run a rather good website called the News Distribution Service, formerly the Government News Network. Below the fold are the RSS and Twitter feeds in three groups – aggregate, departmental and regional.
Unfortunately, no-one knows about it as the COI doesn’t do much to promote it despite being “the Government’s centre [...]
The Sun appears to be plumbing depths of hypocrisy not seen since the death of Princess Diana over the death of Jade Goody. I was in the depths of Somerset at the time and so the second run of papers hadn’t made it to the village shop. The pre-death editions of just about all the [...]
Facebook is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, the people behind it seem pretty poor at communicating with their members. There have been a series of decisions that have caused ructions – Beacon, the news feed & mini-feed, the new layout and ongoing privacy issues – not necessarily because of the decisions themselves but because of poor [...]
