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BBC boss right on Rupert Murdoch
11:43am Thursday 2nd September 2010
IT’S always nice when the boss speaks up for you. So BBC staff must have felt buoyed when Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, used a prominent speech to praise what the corporation does, while at the same time offering a pretty straightforward rebuff to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
Dodgy dilemma for democracy
9:45am Tuesday 31st August 2010
IMAGINE the scene. It’s the hustings for the post of York police chief and the candidates are setting out their crime-fighting stalls. So who is getting the loudest cheers?
Tale of the peeping Tom
9:34am Tuesday 31st August 2010
“THAT cat is like a dog.” My neighbour tells me this every time he sees me walking along the street with our ginger tom a few paces behind.
Box of delights, fun and frights
9:25am Monday 30th August 2010
THAT’S it then. We’ve seen the last of Last Of The Summer Wine, the old Bill has scarpered and Big Brother isn’t watching celebrity wannabes any more.
On holiday without a car
9:36am Friday 27th August 2010
“Did I hear you say you were foot passengers?” The man sitting next to me on the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry from the Isle of Arran to Ardrossan regarded my rucksack-laden family. “How did you get here?”
That’s a lot of annoyance
12:38pm Thursday 26th August 2010
HERE, for want of anything more uplifting, are some things that have annoyed me this week. This ragbag litany of unconnected irritants goes something like this... noisy students, Nick Clegg, Sir Philip Green and everyone babbling on about The X Factor.
Whatever next? Grumpy old me
9:45am Tuesday 24th August 2010
I WAS sitting at home the other night and, feeling too tired to read, started flicking through the TV channels in the hope of finding something even mildly diverting.
The lies we love to spin
9:38am Tuesday 24th August 2010
SECRETS are something we associate with childhood, whispering through cupped hands to school friends in classroom corners.
When to err is so gloriously human
9:10am Monday 23rd August 2010
DON’T you just love it when broadcasters foul up on the telly or radio?
Truth about Roman York
9:11am Friday 20th August 2010
ONCE, when we all spoke Latin, Micklegate ran as straight as a Roman road should to the only bridge over the River Ouse, somewhere near today’s Guildhall.
Five pressing the wrong buttons
11:00am Thursday 19th August 2010
PEOPLE like me tend to view broadcasting through the BBC prism. This is fair enough up to a point, but perhaps sometimes we should look in another direction.
Our obsession with exams
9:35am Tuesday 17th August 2010
I RECENTLY awoke panicking from a dream which found me sitting in an exam hall, staring at blank sheets of paper I had to fill, knowing I had done absolutely no work whatsoever for the challenge.
Post-holidays blues for me
9:17am Tuesday 17th August 2010
WE ALL love holidays. We tick off the days beforehand, get very excited the night before, then spend a few days without a care in the world.
Pulling anti-terror advert beggars belief
9:56am Monday 16th August 2010
OH FOR pity’s sake! The bleeding heart liberals at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have ordered a radio advert urging listeners to report suspected terrorists to be pulled in case it offends people.
Paying the price for digital TV
9:57am Friday 13th August 2010
YOU’RE reading The Press, but what would you think of a law that compelled you to buy The Sun, The Observer and Farmers Weekly too – just so you could keep up with local news in York?
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