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Is Assembly about to fail ITV as programme and jobs cuts loom ?

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Press and Media, Welsh Politics

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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Blog Excalibur

September 25th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Press and Media

We at Cambria Politico know where they can stick their rebuttals. Up their buttals.

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All the news that’s fit to print - but not if it’s Welsh

September 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Press and Media

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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No.10 uses free blog theme (cost to us £100K)

August 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Press and Media

The shiny new official site of No 10 Downing St is not a website… it is a blog.

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Y Byd may be heading for a rescue

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Press and Media, Welsh Politics

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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Eisteddfodic rubbish from Trinity Mirror

August 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments · Press and Media, Welsh Politics

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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Y Byd needs new and straight thinking

July 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Press and Media, Welsh Politics

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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Inside the Assembly jail

July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blood Boilers, Press and Media, Welsh Politics

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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Western Mail so slowwww…yawn.

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Press and Media

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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BBC Wales scoops the biscuit

June 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blood Boilers, News Scoops, Press and Media, Welsh Politics

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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