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Media Monkey's Diary

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 09, 2009

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✒Monkey hears that last Monday the News of the World held a training camp for top executives to teach them to be nice to their staff. Apparently James Murdoch is keen on such David Brent-like exercises, and the execs, in dress-down mode, were asked to perform simple tasks and then make encouraging comments about each other's efforts. They found the whole caper ludicrous, and a ghastly foretaste of a pallid future. It seems editor Colin Myler didn't stay for the whole course, and if so Monkey can see why – if you can't wear a suit or abuse anyone, what's the point of being a tabloid editor?

✒Reactions were swift and scornful following the bashing of other channels by Channel 4's Julian Bellamy in an RTS after-dinner speech on Wednesday. They rely too much on remakes of old shows such as Doctor Who and Minder (the terrestrials) or imports (Sky), said the normally amiable programming chief, who portrayed Channel 4 in contrast as a haven for original output, which never harks back to the past or feels a need to mimic the opposition. As Bellamy was speaking, howeve

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