David Miliband @DMiliband on Twitter: "This is a great interview with @jessphillips. Clear and principled. Times should take it out from behind pay wall as a public service. Jess Phillips. 'I think I’d be a good prime minister’."
Prince Harry in a speech to schoolchildren, reported by The Times [£]: “Every day you are inundated with an over-exposure of advertising and mainstream media, social media and endless comparisons, distorting the truth, and trying to manipulate the power of positive thinking."
Stephen Glover, commenting on Prince Harry's speech in the Daily Mail: "His suggestion that the most noteworthy role of the mainstream media is to tell lies and manipulate impressionable minds — well, this really was dangerous and offensive nonsense. I’m not sure even Jeremy Corbyn believes that."
George Osborne, giving the Hugh Cudlipp Lecture, on the critical reaction to him being made editor of the Evening Standard two years ago: "I had simultaneously managed to offend two of the more self-righteous professions in Britain: journalists and politicians. Some journalists thought it was outrageous that someone who had helped run a country should presume to try to run a newspaper. Some politicians thought it was outrageous that someone who they used to work alongside would now be throwing stones at them."
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Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary, in a statement after the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched an investigation into equal pay at the BBC: "The EHRC’s starting point for this investigation – a suspicion that ‘some women at the organisation have not received equal pay for equal work’ – is in the NUJ’s view a fact. It is quite clear from the NUJ’s involvement – whether in the informal process, grievances or appeals, and potential tribunal claims – that pay inequity has been a reality at the corporation and that women have lost out in pay, pensions contributions and other terms and conditions."
Michael Greenwood @greenwood100 on Twitter marking Donald Zec's 100th birthday: "I know a few journalists who would sell a body part to have had one of the interviews Donald Zec got for The Daily Mirror - for starters here he is with Muhammad Ali in 1967 (copyright @mirrorpix)."
CBC reports: "A man threatened to sue a technology magazine for using his image in a story about why all hipsters look the same, only to find out the picture was of a completely different guy. The story in the MIT Technology Review detailed a study about the so-called hipster effect — 'the counterintuitive phenomenon in which people who oppose mainstream culture all end up looking the same.' The inclusion of a version of a Getty Images photo of a bearded, flannel-wearing man, tinted with a blue and orange hue, prompted one reader to write to the magazine: 'Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you 'reported' this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.' But it wasn't actually him."
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