Peter Bale - curated media, journalism, and related news - Issue #63
Apart from the fact that Boris Johnson's new press chief, Guto Harri, is living evidence that the BBC harbours more right wingers than the assumed lefties (him, Craig Oliver, Robbie Gibb, etc), this is a classic own goal which earned comparisons to Anthony Scaramucci's brief but entertaining spell as a Trump press adviser. It is nuts. Yet, it may work.
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I rather like this from a close friend, Matt. He has torn up the idea that a quiet word at a booze up is somehow confidential and good on him.
TV news is not known for its shy and retiring egos or its sense of perspective, but some of the CNN anchors and others have lost their minds and their judgment in the defenestration of Jeff Zucker. If you read my note last week you know that in my view Jeff was an amazing boss who defended and led CNN boldly (despite me leaving during his reign). He is and was brilliant. However, to talk about a "death sentence" and suchlike is nuts (again). I suspect two things: more will come out and he may return.
Brian Stelter may be the hardest working person in US TV news but he is not exempt from the loss of perspective that happens in TV. Kilar can't say any more at the risk of being sued or disclosing even worse stuff. Also, he's on the out with the Discovery deal. It is they who may resuscitate Jeff.
I respect Naughton immensely. Also, in this case, I really don't care about Joe Rogan or like him myself. But that isn't the issue: many people do and Spotify is his publisher whether they like it or not. He's a shit, much of what he says is macho bollocks, but those are the breaks. Sorry Neil.
People are dying because of covid misinformation that Spotify packages as glib podcast fodder.
I don't agree with John. Facebook, like Microsoft, has the capital and talent to reinvent itself and I suspect will do it. My data point is Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg's phenomenal shift to mobile when they realised they had got it all wrong. In less than 24-months, they pivoted like no other.
This doesn't change my view but maybe it should...
This all seems sensible. Robert, rightly, bigs up the subscription channel that he thinks will help them and also his smarts in getting the platforms to pay for news. He has run a campaign on this really since I was working for him nearly 15 years ago when he called the Google news people "greedy geeks and smiling assassins". It was witty and he hasn't changed.
Journalists should ask themselves some questions about their complicity in this. It isn't enough to just parrot what politicians and others say. The FT was exemplary in calling this out as baseless bollocks at the time.
I rather love that the January 6 committee is getting scraps of paper from the Trump White House, some taped together, others just shredded.
Unthinking nonsense from the Mail. The AP hasn't turned on Biden or anyone else but it has defended its reporter from stupid slurs from a spokesman who should have known better, and who says he apologised.