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		<title>Tragicomedy of errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like an interminable tragicomedy, the phone-hacking story rumbles on with much of the audience dozing in their seats. Every now and then a scene arouses their interest, but the twists and turns of the plot are beginning to puzzle them and many may slip away quietly before the final curtain. The encounter in which one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crusaders or pigs in raincoats?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several years I have lived in the same London street as a high profile platinum-album-selling British musician. In the spirit of the super-injunction age, let’s call this person XYZ. Not long ago, in the middle of the day, I opened the front door to a young and very fetching blonde with a dazzling smile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2011/09/04/crusaders-or-pigs-in-raincoats/</link>
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		<title>Anchors away, my boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC, under severe budget pressures, is seeking to prove that less is better. So it has presented a cost-cutting programme under the acronym DQF: Delivering Quality First. George Orwell, who knew a Ministry of Truth when he saw one, would have felt thoroughly at home. When in despair, just raise a glass &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;and drink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2011/06/07/anchors-away-my-boys/</link>
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		<title>A men-only meritocracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve always regarded news as the military wing of the TV business. It has many of the macho professional characteristics which you definitely don’t find in the “luvvie” end of the industry. Reporters and news producers have to be disciplined frontline troops, while news editors are the generals who must marshal their big guns and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2011/02/28/a-men-only-meritocracy/</link>
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		<title>Downturn Alley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bad behaviour is nothing new or unexpected in newspapers or broadcasting. Much of press history consists of conflict between the people who want to conceal secrets and the journalists who want to reveal them. We can go back almost to the beginning of the press in Britain. In the 1740s, Samuel Johnson, barred from reporting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why this brave man should no longer be allowed to report from the front line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[War reporting requires physical stamina above all else. So why is the partially paralysed Frank Gardner allowed on the front line? Frank Gardner, the BBC’s security correspondent, stood in a military compound in Afghanistan telling us about “the track record” of the American General David Petraeus. It was Petraeus’s predecessor Stanley McChrystal who is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2010/09/01/why-this-brave-man-should-no-longer-be-allowed-to-report-from-the-front-line/</link>
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		<title>We are all in PR now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As journalism flounders, public relations continues to thrive. But that’s good news for both sides of the divide, argues a PR academic. It is time to admit that the two disciplines of journalism and PR are two sides of the same coin and that there is now complete freedom of movement between them. What’s more, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2010/06/05/we-are-all-in-pr-now/</link>
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		<title>Libel: fear should be the spur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calls for libel law reform are misguided. Journalism is intended to be harmful and journalists who don’t like risk should go elsewhere. Sometimes a practising journalist wonders whether his or her current project is investigative. There&#8217;s a good practical answer: if you&#8217;re scared, it might be. If you&#8217;re not scared, not. As in other occupations, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2010/03/03/libel-fear-should-be-the-spur/</link>
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		<title>Regulation: goodnight nurse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Murdoch’s Edinburgh MacTaggart Lecture attack on Ofcom and the BBC was so blatantly self-interested and tendentious that it was easily dismissed by all right-thinking people. Now that it has been firmly adopted and amplified by politicians, who might all too soon have the power to mount an attack on these institutions to his and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2009/12/02/regulation-goodnight-nurse/</link>
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		<title>All our yesterdays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If one week is still a lifetime in politics then, for sure, the past 20 years has been a cosmic eternity for journalism. It was difficult enough to launch British Journalism Review in the 1980s. Eventually we succeeded after two years of gestation and a generous financial grant from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bjr.org.uk/blog/2009/09/01/all-our-yesterdays/</link>
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