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Zamira Rahim

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Journalist, CNN London. Previously writing at The Independent, The Economist and TIME Magazine. Contact: zamira.rahim@cnn.com

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This is unbelievably sad. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/10/u...

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See also: Carter Ruck

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On a somewhat related note - a biz journo should write about the royals' now decades long relationship with Harbottle & Lewis, a firm that strikes fear into every media lawyer's soul

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Meryl Streep in a Devil Wears Prada sequel about the death of print media.....oh, this sounds bleak

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That she rebuilt her relationship with them + that she waited til Munro's death for this, implies a generosity of spirit I simply cannot imagine having. She was let down by everyone

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yes, I was thinking the same thing - the anecdote about the family friends with the 14 year old and Munro describing other 'friendships' he had really stood out to me

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rarely have I ever been so stunned at a news revelation. And she stayed even after he pleaded guilty!

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Point being: If a huge mass of people are watching the game anyway, you might as well bow to the inevitable. Plus penalties don't take long

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My wedding reception coincided with the England v France World Cup match in 2022 - we tried to sneak a projector into the hall but were foiled. In the end, I'd say 90% of guests, bride and groom included, were watching the match on their phones as food was served. My mum gave up trying to stop it

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Horrifying the web of complicity and failure to protect, or even consider, Andrea Skinner. Parents and step-parents obviously, but consider this Munro biographer who just decided to ignore her letters.

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yep, and as a defence, while writing to the child's father. Just insane, criminal behaviour.

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yeah. I feel rather sick to be honest

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The reported piece with extracts from the husband's letters is, if possible, even more sickening. Alice Munro was the great chronicler of how humans lie to ourselves + how we evade responsibility. The facts here should be included in every article about her life. www.thestar.com/news/in-the-...

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Exactly why the 'boring' criticism never worked against Starmer - public are sick of no. 10 psychodrama

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I'd assume different group, but accept in London it could shift the other way

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Fair enough though I think time pressure also adds to this. If you have an hour to find someone, you gravitate to the people you know are reliable. It's a structural problem but definitely needs fixing!

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People often assume bias is the reason bad guests are booked. But it's usually a mix of 'whose number do we have'/'who picked up'/'who said yes'. Saying yes and being readily available all the time is one of the grim reasons BoJo/Trump got a lot of free air time before taking office

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Thoughts and prayers with the media booking desks today, frantically trying to update their contact books on a July weekend

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

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Yes, I broke my rule of not screenshotting tweets on here! The election adrenaline got to me

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The lobby did a generally decent job last night. But this language/mindset around British Muslim voting trends is profoundly unsettling and offensive.

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Isn't this usually the set up for the big let down? Immunity for Trump coming? Or is it just distraction from the "it's cool to tip us" decision?

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WaPo about to issue an apology and retraction for "all that Watergate stuff"

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Newsweek's decline from legacy media bastion to a churn operation reliant on the worst SEO practices has hit a particularly grim point here

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So, so pleased to see the Longform hosts finally getting their flowers. It's a shame the praise comes as the show ends, but what a run. And what a roster of guests - basically every major name from US letters today appeared www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/s...

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Oddly, the detail I always recall about Sutherland is Joe Wright saying he cast him as the dad in Pride & Prejudice because he reminded Wright of his own father. "And sometimes you just have to go with sentimental reasons".

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It's much more the lack of sub-editors at all. Copy is going from reporter to newsdesk to site in most cases, and the desk doesn't have time to tell the reporters where they're going wrong. This means that when those reporters move up to the newsdesk, etc, etc...

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On an unrelated note, the decline of quality sub-editing in British media leaves me rather glum

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Lobby reporting really not covering itself in glory today

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Unusual story doing the rounds in Asia today - China has accused the UK of recruiting a married couple employed by the Chinese central government to spy for MI6 edition.cnn.com/2024/06/02/c...

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"Joseph O’Neill’s transnational new novel is, I’m sure, the first to capture the contemporary reality of football as the predominant cultural pursuit of our globalised age" www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

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