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Great communicator Nick Clegg can't seem to make his mind up about Cameron and his Europe veto.

Great communicator Nick Clegg can’t seem to make his mind up about Cameron and his Europe veto.

By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2011

One minute UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is supporting (reluctantly-ish) his boss PM David Cameron in the latter’s decision to wield his veto to keep Britain out of something or other at the EU (nobody seems sure exactly what), tbe next minute he’s telling his mates in the media like the Observer’s Will Hutton [...]

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CBS to sue London's tube over £71m poster contract - won't these dozy media companies ever learn?

CBS to sue London’s tube over £71m poster contract – won’t these dozy media companies ever learn?

By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2011

CBS Outdoor has said it will sue Transport for London (TfL) over its contract to supply London’s Underground system with posters in an apparent attempt to claw back the oodles of cash it’s lost since ‘winning’ the contract in 2006. CBS has indeed plastered some high profile bits of the underground, like Oxford Circus, with [...]

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Local ad-funded TV in the UK looks like a bit of a Jeremy Hunt

Local ad-funded TV in the UK looks like a bit of a Jeremy Hunt

By Stephen Foster on December 14, 2010

Jeremy Hunt being the coalition culture secretary whose name Today programme presenter James Naughtie and then Andrew Marr got so spectacularly wrong on BBC’s Radio 4 last week. Anyway Hunt has got it into his head that the UK could and should support a network of local TV broadcasters despite everyone else thinking he’s mad. [...]

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BBC's Mark Thompson says Panorama FIFA timing was production-driven coincidence

BBC’s Mark Thompson says Panorama FIFA timing was production-driven coincidence

By Stephen Foster on December 6, 2010

And if you believe that you’ll believe anything. BBC director general Mark Thompson told Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show that the reason the corporation’s Panorama FIFA programme, which essentially broadcast some warmed-over material about bribery that referred to events at least ten years old, went out three days before the 2018 World Cup bid was decided [...]

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