Channel 4 Newsroom Blog
Reporters and presenters from Channel 4 News have launched their Newsroom Blog.
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Questions that Manchester Pride, Marketing Manchester & the Manchester Evening News don’t want to answer
On 18 August 2006 I wrote to Manchester Pride with the following questions. I received a reply from Marketing Manchester, saying that I would get a ‘prompt reply’ just as soon as Pride was over. More than two months later I am still waiting… NOTE: Since I wrote, the page has been edited to remove … Questions that Manchester Pride, Marketing Manchester & the Manchester Evening News don’t want to answer
Wounded British TV reporter was shot dead by US troops
‘ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by American troops as he was being driven to hospital, the inquest into his death was told…’. The Guardian. Full story here.
The Daily Telegraph gets it wrong
In its obituary for Jennifer Moss, who played Lucille Hewitt in Coronation Street, The Daily Telegraph repeatedly refers to ‘Grampian Television’ instead of Granada. What a mistake to make about one of the most famous television programmes of all time from probably the most famous ITV company. Doesn’t the Telegraph have sub-editors? How can you … The Daily Telegraph gets it wrong
When cows attack (video)
MP4 version here (iPod compatible). Click through to my site for Flash video.
I had an eventful five hour walk this afternoon. This is a short extract from a much longer video that I’ll be making about it. I’m laughing about this but, with a calf on the track ahead of me, I wasn’t sure whether angry mum and dad and all their friends might be able to get out the field if they reached the corner before me.
There have been a few cases of walkers being trampled to death by cattle. Especially when there are calves: BBC report.
(Peter says: ‘get back to the city centre!’)
Here Come the Double Deckers
One of my favourite TV programmes as a kid. As far as I can make out, this series has never been released on video or DVD in the UK (and probably not in the US either). The last time I remember it being on terrestrial TV here was in the Granada ITV region in 1990. … Here Come the Double Deckers
Almost a third of Americans (30%) can’t remember what year 9/11 was
Almost a third of Americans (30%) can’t remember what year 9/11 happened… They should have called it 9112001. But, if they had, 30% of Americans would have thought it happened in Beverly Hills :-D
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