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Global Eyes
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On Friday I was in Vienna to pick up an Erasmus EuroMedia Award for an e-magazine I edit on EU communications issues. It’s called Opinion Corner and is published by Mostra, a Brussels-based communications agency. The latest edition of the magazine...
Global Eyes
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On Friday I was in Vienna to pick up an Erasmus EuroMedia Award for an e-magazine I edit on EU communications issues. It’s called Opinion Corner and is published by Mostra, a Brussels-based communications agency. The latest edition of the magazine...
Soot, sweat and sausages
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I have spent most of the week in Belgrade media training officials from assorted ministries and regional authorities. Of course, slick communications skills are no substitute for sound policies. But if ever there was a European country in need of bet...
Soot, sweat and sausages
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I have spent most of the week in Belgrade media training officials from assorted ministries and regional authorities. Of course, slick communications skills are no substitute for sound policies. But if ever there was a European country in need of bet...
“Europe! Europe! Europe!”
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I don’t watch much golf but I always make an exception for the Ryder Cup – the biennial tournament that pits Europe against the United States. Most of the commentary this year has been about the lousy weather – although one wonders what the org...
“Europe! Europe! Europe!”
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I don’t watch much golf but I always make an exception for the Ryder Cup – the biennial tournament that pits Europe against the United States. Most of the commentary this year has been about the lousy weather – although one wonders what the org...
The Trouble with Ed
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You could almost hear the sound of champagne corks popping in Conservative Campaign Headquarters when the Labour Party elected Ed Miliband its new leader Saturday. After all, Prime Minister David Cameron had reportedly told friends he feared Ed’s o...
The Trouble with Ed
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You could almost hear the sound of champagne corks popping in Conservative Campaign Headquarters when the Labour Party elected Ed Miliband its new leader Saturday. After all, Prime Minister David Cameron had reportedly told friends he feared Ed’s o...
Europe seen from America
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This morning I was one of the guests on Global Journalist – a weekly radio show produced by the Missouri School of Journalism: http://www.globaljournalist.org/radio/2010/09/23/ The topics raised under the headline ‘Europe’s tumultuo...
Europe seen from America
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This morning I was one of the guests on Global Journalist – a weekly radio show produced by the Missouri School of Journalism: http://www.globaljournalist.org/radio/2010/09/23/ The topics raised under the headline ‘Europe’s tumultuo...
Bumper sticker identity
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Lecturing at the University of Missouri I am struck by the number of students wearing trackpants, sweatshirts, shorts, T-shirts and other clothing apparel with ‘MISSOURI’ or ‘MIZZOU’ emblazoned on them – as if they need to remind themselves...
Bumper sticker identity
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Lecturing at the University of Missouri I am struck by the number of students wearing trackpants, sweatshirts, shorts, T-shirts and other clothing apparel with ‘MISSOURI’ or ‘MIZZOU’ emblazoned on them – as if they need to remind themselves...
Are American Journalists from Mars and Europeans from Venus?
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Differences between European and American reporting have fascinated me for over a decade. I guess its only natural. I was educated in Britain, have written for The Independent and Guardian and follow UK papers and TV news assiduously. However, most o...
Are American Journalists from Mars and Europeans from Venus?
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Differences between European and American reporting have fascinated me for over a decade. I guess its only natural. I was educated in Britain, have written for The Independent and Guardian and follow UK papers and TV news assiduously. However, most o...
The moment you decide, you divide
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Reading Tony Blair’s autobiography ‘A Journey.’ Its every bit as good and bad as the critics say. The prose is at times excruciating, the arrogance overwhelming and the folksy familiarity irritating. But as a modern-day guide to pow...
The moment you decide, you divide
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Reading Tony Blair’s autobiography ‘A Journey.’ Its every bit as good and bad as the critics say. The prose is at times excruciating, the arrogance overwhelming and the folksy familiarity irritating. But as a modern-day guide to pow...
Scrambled story
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More UK tabloid lies about the EU exposed: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/scrambled-ndash-the-eu-threat-to-british-eggs-2015264.html...
Scrambled story
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More UK tabloid lies about the EU exposed: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/scrambled-ndash-the-eu-threat-to-british-eggs-2015264.html...
