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BBC Claims Singles Are at Risk for Alzheimer's; I Think the BBC is Losing Its Mind

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Elderly, Marriage, Dementia, Singled Out, Friends, Singlism, Divorce, Bbc, Health, Matrimania, Alzheimer's, Intellectual Stimulation, Singles, Media, Widows, Social Contact, Media News
Bella DePaulo

With no reliable differences in the rate of Alzheimer's between the married and the single people, the BBC should not have heralded the "findings" in a headline.

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BBC Presenter Kate Silverton Narrates Near-Death Experience: "I Felt As Though I Would Drown Alive"

Daily Mail | Kate Silverton | Posted 08.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Bbc, Shellfish Allergies, Kate Silverton, Anaphylactic Shock, Anaphylaxis, Allergies, Media News

On an otherwise perfect June afternoon during Royal Ascot this year, I had been presenting for the BBC as well as socialising with friends. I'd had a...

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A Different Kind of Water Torture

John Sauer | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Better World Campaign, Bbc, Charity, Health, Water, The Giving Life, Cambodia, Corporate Giving, International, Foundations, The Fight for Clean Water, Preventable Deaths, Clean Water, Politics News
John Sauer

Each day in developing countries more children die unnecessarily from water-related diseases than there are people in my hometown on Long Island, NY.

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Ted Koppel Joins The BBC

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Ted Koppel BBC, Ted Koppel, Bbc, Media News

Ted Koppel: multi-platform media man. Mr. Koppel, 68, produces documentaries for Discovery, acts as a "senior news analyst" for National Public Radio...

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Long Lost Beatles Interview Airs On BBC

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Bbc, Entertainment News

LONDON — A Beatles interview from the 1960s in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney discussed the way they composed songs together was broadcast...

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BBC Director: Too Many Black And Asian Faces On British TV

Guardian | Leigh Holmwood | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Samir Shah, Bbc, Media News

Broadcasters have overcompensated for their lack of executives from ethnic minorities by putting too many black and Asian faces on screen, a leading t...

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McCain's Vietnam Captor Speaks: A Conversation With Tran Trong Duyet

BBC News | Staff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Bbc, Tran Trong Duyet, John McCain Vietnam, Vietnam War, John McCain Torture, Video, Politics News

In 1967, US presidential candidate John McCain's plane was shot down on a bombing mission over North Vietnam. BBC reporter Andrew Harding tracked dow...

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BBC Honors Fallen Journalists With Rooftop Memorial

Financial Times | Ben Fenton | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media

Read More: BBC London, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, BBC Rooftop Memorial, Bbc, Ban Ki-Moon, Media News

Rarely the first casualties of war, but among its least revered, journalists who have died in conflicts across the world will be commemorated in a mem...

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Kevin Spacey Hits Out At "Unfair" BBC Show

AFP | Posted 04.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Kevin Spacey, Bbc, Entertainment News

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has hit out at the BBC's popular talent contests which look for stars for upcoming musicals as unfairly promoting musical...

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BBC To Premiere New Spice Girls Video

BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Spice Girls Headlines, Spice Girls, Bbc, Media News

The video for The Spice Girls' new single Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) will premiere on BBC One later. The video will be broadcast at 1955 GMT, ...

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BBC Radio Presenter Says She Can't See Black People In The Dark

Daily Mail | Paul Revoir | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Race Controversies, Sarah Kennedy, BBC Radio, Bbc, Media News

For Sarah Kennedy there might be a sense of deja vu. Early morning musings on her Radio 2 show, a throw-away comment or two and then she finds hersel...

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BBC's Johnson Revisits Gaza Kidnapping

Guardian Media | Leigh Holmwood | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Johnson Kidnapping, Alan Johnson, Bbc, Media News

he BBC's former Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnston, has spoken in detail for the first time about his abduction, saying he was punched in the face by o...

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BBC Job Cuts Threaten To Send Co. Into Downward Spiral

New Statesman | Brian Cathcart | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: BBC Job Cuts, Bbc, Media News

My American friend Pete, who works in the oil industry, has lived in Britain for nearly 30 years. Ask him why he likes it here and he says: "Three let...

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BBC To Slash 2500 Jobs

New York Times | Eric Pfanner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: United Kingdom, Bbc, Media, Media News

The British Broadcasting Corporation said Thursday that it would eliminate 2,500 positions and make 10 percent fewer shows by 2013 as it adjusts to a ...

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BBC Struggles To Adapt To Digital Era

New York Times | Eric Pfanner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: BBC Trust, Bbc, Queen Elizabeth II, Mark Thompson, Media News

Television viewers in Whitehaven, England, who tune in to BBC2 the old-fashioned way will be out of luck as of Wednesday. The northern coastal town is...

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Pete Doherty Claims To Be At "Turning Point" In Drugs Battle

BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bbc, Pete Doherty, Babyshambles, Entertainment News

Singer Pete Doherty has told the BBC he has been off drugs for seven weeks - and thinks he has reached a "turning point" in his battle against addicti...

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"West Wing's" Whitford To Star In Climate Change Thriller

BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bradley Whitford, Burn Up, Bbc, Entertainment News

Bradley Whitford, star of US drama The West Wing, is to appear in a new BBC thriller centred around climate change. Burn Up, which will be screened n...

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BBC To Cut 12 Percent Of Workforce

Financial Times | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Ben Fenton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Job Layoffs, Layoffs, Job Cuts, Bbc, Media News

The BBC is poised to cut at least 12 per cent of its workforce, with the brunt of more than 2,000 redundancies falling on factual programming, senior ...

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BBC Official Resigns Over Edited Queen Footage

BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: BBC One, A Year With the Queen, Queen Elizabeth, Bbc, Peter Fincham, Media News

BBC One controller Peter Fincham has resigned following the publication of a report into footage that distorted the actions of the Queen. In July, a ...

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George Michael Pulls HIV Interview

BBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: HIV Test, HIV and Me, George Michael, Bbc, Stephen Fry, Hiv, Entertainment News

Pop star George Michael has asked for an interview in which he discusses his fears of having HIV to be removed from a BBC programme. The BBC has conf...

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Keira Knightley's Screen Debut, Age 7, Revealed

Daily Mail | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Keira Knightley, BBC, Atonement, Johnathan Ross, Entertainment News

The footage, which features a 7-year-old Knightley in a floppy green t-shirt and scraped back pony tail, is from the early nineties BBC production, Ro...

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