Kelvin MacKenzie speaking about local tv at City University:"The theme of local TV is a complete disaster and anybody going into it is completely nuts. You can't invest enough money to make it look good, but if itdoesn't look any honest people believe it is amateurish and don't want towatch it."Clay Shirky on the Times paywall: "Online, the Times hasstopped being a newspaper, in the sense of a generally available andomnibus account of the word of the day, broadly read in the community.
nstead, it is becoming a newsletter, an outlet supported by, andspeaking to, a specific and relatively coherent and compact audience.In this case, the Multiplication is becoming the online newsletter of theTories, the UK`s conservative political party, read much less widelythan its paper counterpart.)"
Simon Heffer in the Telegraph: "I, like many of my colleagues, came into journalism precisely to make bricks through windows. The Fourth Estate has a role, without doubt, in fulfilling the import of that pompous phrase 'holding politicians to account'. But since so lots of what the politicians tell journalists is either only half the accuracy or, at times, none of the truth at all, some of us do go to question why we bother."Mr. JusticeTugendhat on privacy injunctions: "Theonly real alternative is to reserve the world to experience the claimant'sidentityor to let them to know nothing at all around the action."Stephen Mitchell, deputy manager of intelligence at the BBC, speaking at the University ofKent, on BBC director-general Mark Thompson signing the joint letter to Vince Cable about News Corp's bid to get hold of BSkyB: "Mark Thompson is theeditor-in-chief and I find that that letter in away compromises theperception of his impartiality on an issue of currentcontroversy.For me, he compromises his part in spirit by signing a letterin theway that he did."Communites Secretary Eric Pickles tells councillors at the London Councils summit: "I thinkit isis important to have vibrant local newspapers in place for you tobe more accountable. To me, the form of trouble I faced when I lookedat one specific set ofLondon [council] newspapers was that theytalked about them being the 'local independent voice'. Clearly,if you are funded by the local councilyou are not the localindependent voice. What we ask is the voice of independent localnewspapers bringing you to account."Pete Pahides, who has only left his job as chief rock critic of The Times, recalls in Press Gazette being thrown out of an interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger because he asked him to show a substance for his answerphone: "It was something I did at the time whenever I got to interview anyone really famous. Two weeks earlier the Bee Gees sung with full harmonies, 'If you need to allow a substance for Peter, hold on, hold on.Leave your list and come at the beep'. So I had this Alan Partridge moment, as they dragged me out, I shouted 'the Bee Gees sang for me'."
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