Just at the very moment when the official launch of the silly season seemed inevitable, along came the most dreadful atrocity from the most unexpected of all places – Norway. Then Amy Winehouse died. Couldn’t she have waited a couple of days and then she could have been given the full, unambiguous dead tragic star/hero treatment without any Norwegian neo-Nazis getting in the way.
More Homepage Opinion articles
Luke Aviet, managing director Advertising UK AOL & Goviral, says brands need to think and act more like media companies, but to achieve this they need platforms that consistently help them make the complicated easier…
James Whitmore, MD of POSTAR, on the big issue for the future – who should own how much of the news media? What should happen, and happen quickly, is the creation of a fresh legal framework for the ownership of news media…
Raymond Snoddy: It was most unfortunate that James Murdoch could not deal adequately with such a tricky question at yesterday’s select committee (a compelling drama that told us almost nothing new in any factual sense but almost everything about the key players involved) because in the mildest of ways it went to the heart of the matter…
Marius Cloete, head of research at the PPA, on Ben Elowitz’s comment that the web is shrinking – if this is correct where does it leave traditional media like magazines? Potentially in a good place…
So Richard Desmond said last month that the Express titles (including the Daily Star) are not and were never up for sale. This is a totally mischievous remark from someone who revels in controversy…
Raymond Snoddy: “Rupert Murdoch could say “to hell with it” – though those would not be the actual words used. He could close down Sky News and save the company an immediate £20 million a year. Worse still the entire future of News International could be called into question…”
Never underestimate a Murdoch to spring the ultimate surprise and deliver a bigger response to a crisis than any commentator would have forecast…
Raymond Snoddy: Things are moving so fast with one journalistic atrocity following another on a daily basis, each worse in some telling aspect than the one that has gone before, that something urgent now has to be done…
As Jeremy Hunt reaches out for the disastrous “bottom-up” solution for local TV, would-be operators at yesterday’s Future of Broadcasting conference had one simple piece of advice – have the courage to stick to the original plan. It is the only one that will work…