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...News Blinkx.tv www.blinkxtv.com Search for TV news clips and other video bits from more than two dozen sources, including ABC News, BBC News, Fox News, ESPN and C-Span. There's plenty of lighter fare, too-a search for Nicole Kidman pulled up a documentary clip from Biography.com and assorted movie reviews and trailers. Blinkx has its own way of indexing clips that makes it more effective than other video search engines for finding particular segments within a broadcast, and each video stream starts off at the point in the segment that's most relevant to your query...
...article in 1988 on newly fashionable Kickers shoes. After graduating, he parlayed his freelancing into a staff position and then, at 28, the editorship of Arena, The Face's sister magazine. On top of his current responsibilities, writing for the New Statesman, and working on a documentary for the bbc, he's also an editor of a fashion and ideas magazine, Tank, and a founding member of a consortium called Bug that keeps corporate clients like Sony PlayStation up to date on the latest trends. The eclectic schedule, he says, keeps him stimulated: "I've always been more interested...
...Pressing Tony Blair I was pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of on-air sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach?the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with scripted and misleading answers...
...scratch an English-language sister channel to the controversial Arabic broadcaster best known in the West for bringing Osama bin Laden to the world's television screens. In early 2006, al-Jazeera's English channel plans to start going head to head with the likes of CNN and the BBC in the battle for consumers of 24-hour news. The channel's budget is a closely guarded secret, as are the identities of the distributors and advertisers it is wooing, but al-Jazeera is clearly aiming high. "We think it is a fairly tired old industry," Parsons...
...systems, and it will not be easy for al-Jazeera International to find a place on so-called basic-tier cable packages either. "There are not many of us out there, but it is very, very competitive for distribution, advertising and, of course, audiences," says Richard Sambrook, director of BBC World Service and Global News Division. But, he adds, "al-Jazeera has deep pockets, and therefore they are going to be serious competitors...