The BBC have been working on their charter. It’s a heftier document than the two pager RNZ have and way more impressive than the back of a beer coaster thing they’ve got at at TVNZ (a document I can’t even locate on their stupid frame-crazed website). Of special interest to me is the BBC’s clear [...]
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It might actually be the first time that’s happened. A real interview with a real interviewer. Carol Whiteman from Irish television was given a sit down, face-to-face, one on one interview with George W Bush. He could have come out of it a lot worse, but it probably represents the biggest media fumble on the [...]
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Wired Magazine enthuses: Forget Radio, Tune In to Net The magazine that has McLuhan as its Patron Saint should bloody well require its columnists to read his work. Announcing that “web music broadcasting is the best thing to happen to radio” is like saying that the automobile is the best thing to happen to the [...]
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Dinner with friends… and afterwards, while Bobbie, Chris and Jake played Euchre, Paul and I started a game of Go, accompanied by a very nice homemade fudge. Paul’s a software designer and a strategic thinker. Quite a challenge – and I got myself into trouble more than once. After a bottle of dessert wine (a [...]
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