Goodbye to Belgium
This week’s column for the New Statesman is on the Google New’s defeat in the Belgian courts. It’s all you’re going to get for a fortnight out of the NS, since apparently, my column’s being turned into ad space next week. Charming.
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Last year, back when a girl could get a hotel room and a £500 fee for telling a roomful of newspaper execs what a blog was, a director from one of the UK broadsheets taught me a lesson about how the web was changing the news agenda. Each morning, he said, his assistant would download a page from Google News that listed for him and his editorial team the ten top stories around the world that day. Though it would by no means define where they might choose to focus their attention, it was another tool for them to use in their quest to talk back to the world.
Today, Fleet Street might be wondering what happened to Belgium…
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October 14th, 2006 at 8:21 am There do remain, however, a number of other ways a pretty girl can get a hotel room and £500.