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...David Cameron: If you're trying to win an election, you want endorsements from everybody. We live in a different environment to a decade ago. People's consumption of media is completely different. I was doing an interview last night on BBC Online, which now has 4 million daily users. The Internet, television, the proliferation of news and other channels on the TV, changes in the way people read newspapers and online, I think, have weakened the importance of any one specific endorsement. But of course I'd like everyone to endorse the Conservative Party - but I believe...
...have heard of Mika (pronounced mee-ka) yet, but soon enough you may not be able to escape him. The 23-year-old Lebanese-born British singer topped a bbc poll of 130 industry tastemakers as the Next Big Thing for 2007, his music can already be heard on Motorola's RED ads in the U.S., his first video runs on mtv's top rotation, and his face will soon front fashion designer Paul Smith's spring/summer global ad campaign. Not too slouchy given he hasn't actually released a CD yet. Mika's debut single comes...
...What saves Shame from becoming another BBC documentary on the horrors of forced marriage (the network has interviewed Sanghera on that topic) is the author's own story, recounted deftly and without apology. Like all good heroes, she is deeply flawed and strongly conflicted. "By day I fought for the rights of Asian women," she writes, "and by night I craved acceptance from the very community I rejected...
...Ibrahim introduces me to a friend, Ali Halane, the BBC's Arabic Service correspondent for Mogadishu. Ali is reading War and Peace. He confesses to finding it hard going...
...minister, not both." But the ambition of running parallel editorial operations in English and French on a $112 million budget annual budget - about a fifth of CNN's - earns points at the very least for sheer panache. Can France really make waves in a market dominated by CNN, the BBC and the newly launched Al Jazeera International...