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Tag Archives: journalism
Bad Apples In The BBC Barrel
Image: BBC Sitting with Dan Walker on yesterday’s Football Focus was Scotland Football Team Manager, Craig Levein. When asked about his memories of the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, he recalled how Scotland, as the only British representatives in the … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, Film & TV, Photography, Reading, Writing
Tagged BBC, Editing, Football, Football Focus, house cleaning, journalism, Mark Lawrenson, Over the Rainbow, Photography, popularity contests, programming, radio, SPL, St Mirren, television, Writing
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Observer Trouble
Image: Orhan Tsolak I can’t believe the rumours that the Observer might be going to shut its doors. I first picked up the scent of this from David Mitchell via Twitter, and it seems to have some substance to it. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, baby sitting, dogs, Fleet Street, journalism, journalists, media, newspaper, Observer, print, Reading, Swine Flu, the press, Writing
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White Tents Are Sprouting
Image: Scott McAndrew Lovely day over Edinburgh yesterday; sunny, warm, and it felt oddly like a Friday. I had a busy day in the office as my workload increases and I find myself being pushed into newer and higher profile … Continue reading
Freedom from the Mundane 
The Daily Mail and Amanda Knox
Image: Media Bistro The Daily Mail The now widely reported error of judgment by the Daily Mail, when it wrongly published that Amanda Knox had been found guilty by an Italian appeals court, has already fallen into the stuff of … Continue reading →