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The Beeb have really done rather a good job on the Web, as far as I can tell and based on reports from various technical and media-related friends.
How they're handling the aftermath of the Hutton Inquiry is of course especially interesting. I suggest that one keeps hitting refresh on news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3430519.stm. Susan Watts, however, is conspicuous by her absence on that page. What she has to say in The Times (here) is especially heartfelt.
Very potted history
Founded by Lord Reith a while back. My friend Constance St Louis chose the Reith Lecturer to be Professor Patricia Williams from the USA a few years ago. The Daily Mail didn't like the choice one little bit. But I introduced Patricia to Helen Bamber, which was great fun and seemed somehow historic. Nowadays Connie does radio programmes and articles about Helen and Patricia writes in The Nation, an influential USA left-liberal monthly. The two, formidable black ladies and their families remain very close friends.
The original meeting is mentioned somewhere else on Why too. Oh yes, in This Particular Point In History. Whenever that was.
This morning's news (31 May 2002)
Further to Elitist Latest, my wife informs me that Today ran a piece on the Bilderberg Group's latest meeting in Virginia this morning. There once again seems to be a little more openness in reporting in the mainstream media, as predicted by Jim Tucker last year. Competitive pressure on news providers, including from the Web, is likely to be part of the reason. It's the lack of reliable background information that remains the difficulty. -- Richard Drake
Mind you, they made up at least a little of the background in a couple of Radio 4 programmes in the past eighteen months on Bilderberg and Skull And Bones, in a series called, rather brilliantly, Club Class. The first-hand account of John Kerry taking time out from being a high-flying senator to try to recruit a bright intern, about to go up to Yale, into Bones was one of the most helpful pointers I've heard of how the system may have worked and spread its influence well beyond the puerile Undergraduate Shenanigans level.
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The BBC Conspiracy Test is a must.
Connie is repeating a short series called Raising Ham, on the challenges of bringing up an Afro-Carribean son in the UK.
The Case Against The BBC's reporting of The War and its aftermath was made by people more effective than Alastair Campbell?
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