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Is new boss Tony Hall turning the BBC into the Right Wing Broadcasting Corporation?

Is new boss Tony Hall turning the BBC into the Right Wing Broadcasting Corporation?

By Stephen Foster on April 15, 2013

New bosses (director-generals as they quaintly call them) don’t get an easy ride at the BBC and newly-installed DG (Lord) Tony Hall (left) is receiving his own baptism of fire. At the weekend he had the fuss over the anti-Margaret Thatcher Facebook campaign’s Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead reaching number two on the singles [...]

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Where are we as we go into the (pre-Christmas) weekend? PG/IPG, Sorrell, Wieden and Murdoch

Where are we as we go into the (pre-Christmas) weekend? PG/IPG, Sorrell, Wieden and Murdoch

By Stephen Foster on December 21, 2012

It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]

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Are two Lords better than one? Lord (Tony) Hall quits the opera to join Lord Patten at the Beeb

Are two Lords better than one? Lord (Tony) Hall quits the opera to join Lord Patten at the Beeb

By Stephen Foster on November 22, 2012

Admittedly Lord Hall – one-time BBC head of news Tony Hall – isn’t quite as grand as former Tory minister and last governor of Hong Kong Lord (Chris) Patten but it’s a sign that egalitarianism in the UK never quite made it across the line that both the chairman and the new director general of [...]

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