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30 Jan 2013
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Raymond Snoddy
Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens has issued profound apologies and accepted the cartoon had "crossed a line" - but how do you account for such an instant change of heart? There can only be one explanation and it's all down to Rupert Murdoch and his tweets.
28 Jan 2013
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Dominic Mills
Do you have any idea of the difference between something 'overtly' sexy and something 'mildly' sexy? It's not easy, is it? My 'mild' might be your 'overt'. So it's both interesting and amusing that the ASA has knocked down complaints that M&S's new lingerie ads were 'overtly sexual, degrading to women and reinforced sexual stereotypes'.
23 Jan 2013
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Raymond Snoddy
Old rules, laws and agreements which pre-date the rise, and even the existence of the Internet, are threatening to cause mayhem in both the regional and national newspaper industry, writes Raymond Snoddy
21 Jan 2013
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Dominic Mills
Dominic Mills argues that while tablets may accelerate the death of print, they may actually be the saviour of publishing - and there is a clear chain of links to follow if we want to predict the ways things are going to go this year...
16 Jan 2013
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Raymond Snoddy
The great thing about the future of the media is that it changes every five minutes. Just when you thought you had finally got a handle on things, everything gets thrown up in the air again, like some sort of media perpetual motion machine.
14 Jan 2013
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Dominic Mills
Channel 4, Group M and, most importantly, its clients, will be mighty relieved the trading dispute between the broadcaster and the media agency was resolved last week - but such high-profile stand-offs make a nonsense of media agency claims about the importance of strategic and channel planning.
09 Jan 2013
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Raymond Snoddy
The real reason why Hacked Off, which has been annoyingly effective over the past year, is angry is that they know in their hearts that they have lost the battle to achieve the full implementation of the Leveson recommendations, in particular the statutory underpinning of a new regulatory body.
07 Jan 2013
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Dominic Mills
So here we are, in that listless post-Christmas netherworld...and the ads are the usual flotsam and jetsam. I've often wondered why more advertisers don't go for something special during this time...
19 Dec 2012
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Raymond Snoddy
One person leaving “next year,” even though Pollard found nothing but managerial “chaos and confusion” among executives when faced with one of the worst crises in the BBC’s history, scarcely seems an appropriate response, says Raymond Snoddy.
17 Dec 2012
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Dominic Mills
It's December and instead of yet another finger-in-the-air forecast or more wishful thinking for the year ahead, Dominic Mills would like to point out some things in Adland that won't change next year.
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