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Freddie Starr ate my producer

  • Paul Mason
  • 23 May 06, 02:23 PM

freddiebite203.jpgOn Newsnight it is producers who do all the work. As business correspondent I get a regular producer assigned to me, and this is often seen as a career path to the heady heights of going into warzones, or the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Millbank political nerve centre. However this is what happened to the career path of one recent business producer. I am not sure whether he qualifies for an Equity card for this... Why is he doing this?
Watch on Wednesday night for the full story...

Why I worry about Google…

  • Paul Mason
  • 23 May 06, 01:15 PM

I went to Google’s β€œZeitgeist” conference for its European business partners yesterday. The non-business highlight was that the England team were in the same hotel and David Beckham wandered into the reception in his kit! For the record his metatarsals looked in great form...

The business highlight: here is an anecdote told by , the CEO, about how they came up with their world beating online ad system (which is destroying everybody else’s business model of advertising day by day):

β€œLarry Page was stapling spreadsheet printouts to a whiteboard one Friday afternoon...

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