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...there so I just buy - Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Kaisar Chiefs. Radiohead has a new album out that I guess I'll buy. I don't think one can honestly speak about favorites unless one is prepared to see them live. I think that's the mark of serious affection. And I never go and see anybody live, apart from the Stones every time they do a tour. I loved Roger Waters' tour, by the way. I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. I had a long love affair with the Buena...
...much intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, stand-out content that raises the bar of broadcasting" and the Corporation's need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which tend to eschew high culture and serious factual programming. Populism has the upper hand. "If you look at the history of the BBC, it is the history of a very slow retreat from the public-service remit, as if gradually the grass is growing over Lord Reith's grave," says Greenslade...
...Reith may well be spinning under the grass, but the BBC isn't alone in its travails. Britain's Serious Fraud Office may review documents obtained from the U.K. communications regulator, Ofcom, in relation to its decision to fine the breakfast TV company GM.TV. In September, the regulator imposed a penalty of some $4 million on GM.TV for encouraging viewers to dial premium-rate phone lines to enter competitions after winners had already been picked. ITV has admitted to similar practices. "Television is at a low point," says Graham Stuart, director of independent production company So Television...
...created festivals from the most boring tasks,” he said.Matskevich recalled Rossel composing songs about archaeological distribution patterns—though he said that she attempted to be more solemn at times.“She decided that she needed to be more serious, so she invented another personality named ‘Dr. Rossel,’ who was this very serious PhD,” Matskevich said. “Her other personality was ‘Ms. Stine,’ who loved to dance, sing, and was very irresponsible...
...would likely be reticent to come forward. While the law may not go far enough, it is at the very least a concrete step in the right direction. We understand the reasons that the legislation must define clearly who falls under its protection and that it must discriminate between serious journalists and those who simply claim to be journalists so they can enjoy the benefits of the shield law. But college journalists are just as serious about their craft as many professionals, and excluding them simply for legislative convenience is arbitrary and unnecessary. Some may argue that college newspapers would...