Government bailout for newspapers
March 24, 2009, 8:50 pm
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Alastair Darling, Bailout, Banks, Business Secretary, Charlie Beckett, Government, John Nicol, Media, Motor industry, newspapers, Peter Mandelson, Press, Press Gazette, Robert MsChesney, Twitter, US
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Alastair Darling, Bailout, Banks, Business Secretary, Charlie Beckett, Government, John Nicol, Media, Motor industry, newspapers, Peter Mandelson, Press, Press Gazette, Robert MsChesney, Twitter, US
Newspaper stand from laffy4k on Flickr
The Government has bailed out the banks and is working on a package for the motor industry, so what next? Some people have suggested newspapers should also receive a lump sum from Alastair Darling’s pot.
This idea was rejected by the Business Secretary Peter Mandelson earlier this month.
Filed under: Journalism, News comment | Tags: Brussels, Europe, European elections, European Union, Foreign Office, Government, Journalism
The European Commission
Yesterday I went to a talk entitled “Demystifying the EU”, given by Alison Rose who works at the Foreign Office. I know I will have already lost half of you. “European Union? Yawn!” That is what a lot of people think.
That was the problem that we all came up against as soon as questions were opened to the floor. The main consensus was no one in Britain understands the EU, no one likes it and a lot of people will not vote in the European elections because they don’t believe it has any bearing on their lives. (more…)