How Journalists Could Conquer The World
But first… The News! My friend Peter Klein, a Professor at University of British Columbia, points out a full page ad in the Globe touting the value of ‘professional journalists’. “‘We believe this is the first step toward taking action to...
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Newsroom of The Daily Telegraph Some years ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Jim Rogers, the self-made billionaire (or maybe it was just hundreds of millions), and partner of George Soros. Of course, I asked him...
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Hold everything! Many years ago, when I was a producer for CBS News, there was a kind of hyper-sensitivity to phone calls. We might run a story and conceivably 7 million people might watch it. However, if the phones...
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This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...
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The power of empowering the masses Today we had a visitor at the Travel Channel Academy. A representative from an O&O in Philadelphia, she said that the local news station was starting to get concerned because The Philadelphia Enquirer...
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