Entries Tagged as 'Press and Media'
Hopes that the Assembly would lead the battle against the ITV news service entering on a long-running death spasm seem to be false.
The Assembly last term set up what became an exceedingly effective broadcasting committee which did great work ensuring that Wales gets its rightful treatment in a hideously London-biased news media.
In its report, [...]
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Tags: itv·ofcom
We at Cambria Politico know where they can stick their rebuttals. Up their buttals.
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Tags: blogging·excalibur
The appearance of full-page government adverts last week in some of the largest newspapers circulating in Wales struck right to the kernel of the Welsh media problem.
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Tags: Add new tag·daily post·itv regional news·national newspapers·newpaper regional editions·newspaper circulations·western mail
The shiny new official site of No 10 Downing St is not a website… it is a blog.
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Tags: blogging·No.10 website·ten downing street
The Rev Roger Roberts put his foot right into his mouth and then swallowed it when he averred the failure to launch a Welsh-language daily paper was of little matter
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Tags: conwy·Plaid Cymru·rainbow coalition·roger roberts·welsh language daily
As years advance, much in the world of newspapers goes backwards … unless, it seems, you are in a certain part of Wales.
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Tags: eisteddfod·trinity mirror·western mail
I can’t be sure whether the reawakened chorus of support for the launch of a Welsh-language daily is because of rock-bound support for the venture…
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Tags: Alun Ffred Jones·assembly bail-outs·daily mail·daily post·e-world·eleanor burnham·printed press·Rhodri Glyn Thomas·toni bianci·welsh books council·welsh language daily·western mail
I have been asked whether I knew Christopher Glamorganshire, the civil servant who blogged from the inside on the Labour-Plaid coalition talks. But the truth is that for journalists the Assembly is a bit like a jail.
Once we enter it, we are tightly restricted as to where we can go, by passes which open (or [...]
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Tags: assembly blogs·Assembly secrecy·christopher glamorganshire·civil servants·press in assembly
The online version of the Western Mail finally catches up with the Welsh blogosphere which has been commenting on the issue of the role of the Internet in modern politics for weeks now. Funny that.
Wales urged to get net-savvy after Obama victory
Jun 16 2008 by David Williamson, Western Mail
BARACK Obama’s victory over Hillary Clinton proves [...]
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Tags: blogging·internet·western mail
Glad to see BBC Wales has got its top news stories right on the day of the Irish referendum and 42 day detention vote aftermath. Yes, the top story is … wait for it … Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards is retiring from his post as Lord Lieutenant on his 75th birthday. My God what a [...]
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Tags: bbc·royalty