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Today the Beeb is menaced by the same digital revolution that's wreaking global havoc in newspapers, magazines, film and music. Challenged by technologies that allow anyone to read news, watch TV or listen to music on a variety of devices, these businesses are frantically scrambling to reinvent themselves. Mark Byford, the BBC's deputy director-general and head of journalism, says there's particularly a noticeable "falling away" of TV viewers who are "under 35 and especially under...
...lack of a diversified economy to harness the oil wealth. As a foreign diplomat puts it, "If you're dying of thirst, you can't drink from a fire hose. The water comes out too fast." But it's also due to corruption: a 2004 Human Rights Watch report claimed that $4.22 billion in oil revenues went missing from Angola from...
...MEDIA WATCH...
MacDonald and his teammates may be optimistic, but ultimately, even if the Crimson does win, the rest of us still lose. Those of us who opted to go to Yale will miss our chance to watch it happen. The small, football-shunning Harvard crowd that does make it out to the Bright will suffer the indignity of being dwarfed by the Cornell fans like never before. Even our school’s good name is at stake. The number of students at a Harvard game is, among other things, an expression of spirit, a declaration of Harvard pride. This weekend...
...interior. While O’Leary says that the traffic in the store varies drastically, Revolution was going slowly Saturday evening. A man in dreadlocks and a Che Guevara hat browsed the offerings, but exited before FM could speak to him, warning his fellow compatriots: “Watch out for the mainstream press!” The other two customers in the store took his warning to heart, refusing to reveal their names to FM. But the couple was friendlier when it came to talking about (surprise!) the “revolution.” “[It?...