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What I was told when I asked about blogs joining the PCC

Following recent coverage of the PCC’s Baroness Buscombe’s Independent interview where she possibly mooted the idea of the PCC regulating blogs, I thought I would share some correspondence I had with the PCC recently over the same issue. In a nutshell: blogs can already choose to operate under the PCC anyway. I asked Simon Yip of the PCC whether a
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Posted by Paul Bradshaw on Nov 19, 2009
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Google’s Schmidt to news execs: You’re great. Join us.

I’m growing tired of waiting for genuine words of insight to come from Google CEO Eric Schmidt when it comes to the news industry. An hour ago he made a speech to the Newspaper Association of America’s annual convention in San Diego, spouting the usual stuff about how great newspapers and journalists are, and providing gems of advice like ”Try to figure
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Posted by Paul Bradshaw on Apr 07, 2009
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