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04 Jul 2012
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Raymond Snoddy
Raymond Snoddy says that the appointment of George Entwistle as BBC director-general is a surprise, in light of his role in the Royal Pageant coverage, but as a BBC stalwart he will at least be respected in a role that is essentially thankless, where a daily kicking comes with the territory...
27 Jun 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says News Corp shares were up 8% on the mere prospect of a demerger and there could be a further modest rise when the deal is actually completed. If you can add say 10% to the value of a multi-billion corporation by what is little more than a paper transaction why on earth would you not do it?
20 Jun 2012
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Raymond Snoddy wonders if there is there no end to the wisdom of Ofcom. But then the organisation has a really tricky problem to deal with. We call it the Leveson dilemma...
13 Jun 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says despite the grandeur and scale of the evidence - and the abuses revealed in cruel detail - Leveson has little choice but to wend his way towards a better form of independent self-regulation...
06 Jun 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says anything that increases confidence and the propensity to spend in the depths of a recession has to be a good thing, even if the intellectual pillars on which it stands are decidedly shaky...
01 Jun 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says the kindest thing that could happen to Jeremy Hunt now is a reshuffle...
30 May 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says says the really interesting question from Leveson this week is whether Michael Gove was preening himself and making it up as he went along, or whether he was reflecting - in a rather shrill way - the private views of David Cameron and the Coalition Cabinet...
23 May 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says it would be good to see competition regulators in the UK concentrate on real abuses of market dominance that actually harm consumers' interests rather than disadvantaging consumers in pursuit of theoretical models of competition....
16 May 2012
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Raymond Snoddy on ITV's error in letting the South Bank show (and name) go; Sky's ambitions in arts television; and why opera and football make the perfect combination of enthusiasms...
09 May 2012
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Raymond Snoddy says ITV and RTL's latest statements give testimony to the enduring power of free to air commercial television and show that the media world is working in the way it should in difficult times...
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